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One bowl Cinnamon Rolls

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Stella Parks recently wrote an article about how to properly prepare and bake Cinnamon rolls, which are one of the most toughest pastries to master cooking. This recipe is directly from her newly releaed book, Bravetart which is about american deserts and how to create them. She graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and was rated one of America's upcoming pastry chefs. The orignal article is here . Nothing kicks off a holiday celebration quite like waking up to the smell of cinnamon rolls wafting from the oven, especially when I don't have to lift a finger that morning except to preheat the oven. That's the magic of this recipe for overnight cinnamon rolls, which ensures all the heavy lifting is knocked out a day (or even weeks) in advance. Even better, it's a one-bowl recipe, so I don't need to dirty every dish in the house just to make a special breakfast. It's one of the most versatile recipes in my cookbook , with variations on the dough,

Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies`

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Kenji Lopez-ALT recently wrote a large article about the twenty factors that affect how chocolate chip cookies. These factors range from small things like the type of chocolate used in the dough, to the effects of different flowers will have on the cookies, to what temperature the butter should be when it is being creamed with the sugar.  Kenji currently writes on serious eats which is a popular cooking blog, where the writers use science to figure out why their food tastes good, and how to improve it. A link is here . "Stop making cookies." I'm sorry, what was that dear? "I said, stop making cookies." That's odd, I thought to myself. Why would she be saying that? Wouldn't any wife be pleased to be married to a husband who fills the house with the aroma of warm butter, caramelized sugar, and gooey chocolate? Indeed, wouldn't any human being in the right mind yearn to be constantly surrounded by sweet, crisp-and-chewy snacks? Then, as I glanced arou