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The most popular recipes of 2020, according to you, our readers!
Can you believe we've reached the end of 2020? This is a year we will all remember, that's for sure! These are the most popular recipes of the year, according to our readers. I think they reflect what was happening this year. From all the quarantine and comfort baking, there are a few bread recipes, croissants, and scones. You also loved the Marry Me Chicken, which was one of our favorites too.
Did your favorite make the list? If not, let us know in the comment section (scroll to the end of the post) so other readers can check out your favorites. And if you missed one of these, be sure to put them on your "must make" list!
If you've got 20 minutes, that's all it takes (hands-on time) to put together these Ridiculously Easy Almond Croissants. They look like they came from a fine French patisserie and they're ridiculously delicious too!
Crisp, buttery, and super delicious, these Brown Sugar Honey Shortbread Cookies come together quickly with just one bowl and no mixer required!
Melt in your mouth delicious and so easy, these Banana Bread Scones with a fabulous brown butter icing are super moist and tender inside and have a wonderful sweet-crunchy exterior.
This delicious Caramel Apple Cake couldn't be easier with a simple microwave caramel sauce, a one-bowl, no-mixer cake recipe and no need to even peel the apples!
This easy, one-bowl, no-mixer recipe really does produce the BEST chocolate chip cookies we've ever tasted. They're buttery and crinkly with crisp edges, a chewy interior and lots of delicious chocolate chips.
With a crisp, crinkly, crackly exterior and a chewy, intensely butterscotch interior, these one-bowl, easy-to-put-together cookies always bring rave reviews. And the free printable labels make these delicious Butterscotch Cookies perfect for gifting!
This Easy Blackberry Jelly recipe yields delicious, shimmering clear jelly that's perfect for toast, scones, biscuits, bagels, crumpets, etc. with a super simple technique!
This super tender Marry Me Chicken with rosemary and sun-dried tomatoes is so delicious that it just might seal the deal on a proposal! It will definitely garner brownie points for you! No one has to know how easy it is!
This delicious, no-knead, no-mixer, Cinnamon Raisin Brioche Bread has a sweet, buttery, tender-crumb that studded with plump raisins and swirled with cinnamon sugar.
Give this No-Knead Seeded Oatmeal Bread a try! It's easy, versatile and so… delicious! The hands-on time is minimal and the fabulous results are maximum!
Thought for the day:
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
Hebrew 6:19
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You have one of my favorite cooking blogs, and a few others! Thanks for putting everything you do in to brings recipes that are great, tasty and very well written!
Thanks so much, Edee! I really appreciate your kind and encouraging comment 💕
Thank you for such delicious recipes. I now have my “cafe notebook” with all the recipes I’ve tried and liked. When looking for something to cook, this is my first resource. I’m not a sweet fan (prefer savory) but have tried some of the sweet treats cutting sugar by half and had great success. Looking forward to 2021 and more deliciousness!!!
I want to thank you so much for your recipes. My husband has never liked scones....until I tried your recipe! He asked that I make them more often! The tips, comments and photos are wonderful. I’ve made many of your recipes and will continue in the New Year! Thank you for all of your hard work getting these recipes to a point where they are so easy for me to make! I’m a big fan!
Thank you for this kind and encouraging comment, Darlene. I know how your husband felt. Scones are so often dry and uninteresting. So happy he enjoys them now! 💕
Thank you for a year full of wonderful recipes (it was definitely a bright-spot in an unfortunate year)! Due to a recently diagnosed medical condition I can't have gluten anymore. I am totally at sea and sad that it will eliminate most of your recipes but maybe the gluten-free flour will work in them? I have no idea but I'll give it a try.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Barb. I do hear from lots of readers though who sub GF flours for the all-purpose with good results. I think it will take a bit of experimenting but soon you'll be an expert!
I'm not a sweet eater, so this list is not exactly for me, but sure love the Cafesucrefarine recipes that are savory . . . I will make Marry me Chicken this week for sure. Preparing my grocery list now. Love this blog, but looking forward to more savory and less sweets!
Not on this list, however I made your wreath cookies. I really appreciate your in depth instructions. I followed them exactly, including the fondant bows. They are simply exquisite. Thank you so much!
You're welcome, Mary Lee! I'm so happy you enjoyed them!
HI Chris,
Thank you so much for sharing all of your recipes, I know that when I make one of your recipes it will always turn out great because of the time and effort you take in making sure that it is perfect before it hits the blog. I've made most of these recipes , except for the raisin bread, that is next on my todo list.
Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year, filled with Health and Happiness.
Brigitte
Thank you, Brigitte! Wish you a wonderful 2021 as well!
Dear Chris,
I just discovered your blog this year, and am so glad I did. I’m about to eat one of the maple pecan scones (so delicious!) and just pinned several of these recipes. I haven’t made a yeasted bread in years, but the no knead cinnamon brioche definitely called my name...as did the banana scones, the shortbread, etc! Thank you so much! And Happy New Year too!
Janet in Massachusetts ( whose daughter is also in NC).
Thank you, Janet! I'm so happy you found us too and appreciate you taking the time to share your comment!
Hello Chris
Many of these recipes I made and were all scrumptious. Just this past Christmas Eve your beautiful pomegranate and clementine salad was the most festive side dish for our Christmas Eve dinner. I shaped the clementines into flowers and added additional pomegranate seeds to the centers of each one. My husband thoroughly enjoyed the chocolate chip cookie recipe. The recipe collection is delicious and perfect thank you for taking the time to create tasty easy recipes and to share them as well as your blog!!!!
Happy New Year
Danielle
Thank you, Danielle! I appreciate this kind, thoughtful comment! 💕
Your butter milk biscuits are so easy and so delicious. I love all you recipes and am so glad I stumbled onto your web blog.
Thank you, Diane! 💕