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The most popular recipes of 2019, according to our readers!
As the new year approaches, we're reflecting on 2019. These are the most popular recipes of the year, according to you, our readers. Several renditions of the one bowl, no mixer cake made the top ten. We can see why! It's one of our favorites too. Also popular were the quick pizza sauce, easy marinara, and a sheet pan chicken recipe. We make these over and over as well! Did your favorites make the list? Let us know in the comments. Stay tuned for part two of this post, where we recap our favorite recipes of the year.
This easy, One-Bowl Buttermilk Cake is always a huge hit with it's moist, tender crumb and incredibly delicious fresh raspberry buttercream!
This delicious, 4-ingredient, super easy pizza sauce is better than anything you can buy and takes less than 20 minutes to make!
The first bite of this amazingly delicious, super easy, fresh strawberry cake will blow you away. And you can have this one-bowl, no-mixer dessert in the oven in less than 15 minutes!
This delicious chicken sheet pan dinner is a super easy meal that's perfect for busy weeknights but delicious and pretty enough to serve for a dinner party!
These crisp, buttery melt-in-your-mouth delicious Irish Shortbread Cookies require just one bowl and no mixer! They come together quickly and disappear even quicker, so make plenty!
Loaded with healthy seeds and a generous scoop of whole wheat flour, this ridiculously easy, one-bowl, no-knead Seeded Focaccia Bread is also ridiculously delicious!
These easy, one-bowl, no-mixer are similar to Starbucks Blueberry Muffins. They're moist, delicious, loaded with juicy blueberries and they rise up high, with beautiful domed tops!
This delicious Homemade Chicken Pasta Soup tastes like you spent all day in the kitchen, but in reality, you can put it together, start to finish in less than an hour! It's also fabulous with leftover turkey!
Super moist with a tender crumb, this Key Lime Coconut Cake has a fabulous lime glaze that's brushed on after it's baked. It's one of those no-fail, crazy-delicious, one-bowl, no-mixer desserts. A keeper for sure!
While this post isn't a recipe, it was one of the most popular posts this year. The Café's best tips and tricks for shopping at Aldi, as well as our favorite things to buy!
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I am an avid follower.. I have told many of your wonderful recipes!! I especially like your salads and salad dressings..,especially the pumpkin 🎃...
Thanks so much, Gayle!
Love your cake recipes. As someone who has to be careful with the amounts of cholesterol, I certainly appreciate oil in lieu of butter and I also use substitute eggs. They all work brilliantly. I do have lots of cookbooks and prefer reading them more than the barrage of news we're bombarded with on an hourly basis. Thank you! Cheers
Thanks so much, Monica! I'm a fellow cookbook lover!
Hi Chris,
Happy New Year! I have been a follower of your blog for several years and have turned many people your way. I love your recipes!! Sadly, I’m of the old school of cooking. I still love cookbooks. Having a whole compilation of recipes in one book seems to make it easier for me. I enjoy pouring a cup of tea or coffee and perusing a good cookbook. I know of many people just like me. I find it easier to find my favorite recipes.
Thanks Chris for listening. Your follower from Seattle,Washington.
Barbara
Hi Barbara, thanks for your comment. I understand about enjoying cookbooks. There is something wonderful about looking through a good cookbook. My husband says that I read them like "normal people" read novels!
I have had several offers to write a cookbook but I've felt that the tremendous amount of time it would involve would take me away from my priorities which are my faith, family, friends and, of course, the blog.
Many of these recipes were my faves too. I can't count how many times I've made the sheet pan chicken. It's my go-to dinner when I'm stuck for an idea since I always have the ingredients on hand. Thanks for the pizza sauce...I never thought it would be so easy to make my own! There's no going back to store bought now. Our other favorite this year was the lemon ricotta cake. It is a no fail recipe that brings rave reviews. My daughter requests it often. Thank you so much for your beautiful website. You have definitely expanded my repertoire and taught me some new techniques. Happy New Year to you. Wishing you all the best in 2020!
Thanks so much, Tonya! I really appreciate your kind words and love that you've enjoyed the Café recipes💕
So many wonderful recipes from 2019. Your cakes and muffins are especially calling me to prepare them! Thank you for sharing. Happy 2020!
Thank you, Roz! I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment!
Thank you, Roz! Happy 2020 to you!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful website with all of us. Wishing you a new year filled with happiness and health.
Thanks so much, Pamela! We really appreciate your kind encouragement!
Happy New Year Chris! You are always cooking up something fabulous, and it's such fun to see which ones were the most popular!
Thanks, Jenna! 💕
Just love this website and the recipes. Am also from NZ and find heaps to make even though our seasons are opposite. So many favourites! Thank you ! Adair.
Greetings all the way to New Zealand! Thanks so much, Adair, I'm so happy you've enjoyed The Café!
I definitely saved the pizza sauce recipe for later, yum! I love how your decorate your cakes too.
Thanks, April! Enjoy!
I just recently found your website. I have made those delicious Cranberry Orange Scones and the Orange Cranberry Christmas Marmalade. I also bought those cute spoons. Thank you for the labels. Can't wait to try so many other recipes. You are amazing.
Welcome to The Café, Elsa! I'm so glad you've enjoyed the recipes!
Go on Google and type "US measurements to British" in the header. It should come up immediately.
Hi Chris
Have saved your recipe for the Grandmothers Lemon Yogurt cake,plus several others that sound so yummy! However,I live in New Zealand and am wondering how to convert your recipe from US measurements to British?
Many thanks,Ann
Hi Ann, if you click on the "Metric" button right under "Instructions" in the recipe box, you should be able to convert to British measurement. If there's a recipe that doesn't have that option, just email me and I'll add it. I try to add it to each recipe but sometimes I forget - also, some of the older recipes don't have it as I didn't have that option at the time.