Sarah kieffer

Perfectly spiced, ginger molasses cookies with rippled edges and a chewy center. Uses the pan-banging cookie technique to get their famous look!

I like my cinnamon rolls super soft and gooey, so I put a thin layer of the icing over them while they are still warm. The icing melts into the just baked rolls, eliminating any hard corners or edges. If you prefer a little crispy crunch to your cinnamon rolls, you can wait until they have cooled and then top them with all the icing.

The 22 best Christmas cookies to make for gift boxes! Sarah Kieffer shares her favorite holiday cookie recipes that pack and ship well.

Step 1: Warn your roommates about the noise.

These chocolate chip cookies have perfectly crisp edges, a gooey center, plenty of chocolate flavor, and a beautiful crinkly top. Can be baked right away, no chill time necessary.

Apples, cinnamon, sugar, and butter all wrapped up in the flakiest dough! These morning buns are made with both chopped apples and apple cider for incredible flavor.

If you’ve logged onto social media in the past year, chances are you’ve come across Sarah Kieffer’s pan-banging chocolate chip cookies. Thanks to a somewhat unusual technique, these cookies have picture-perfect ridges that make for a seriously striking photo. The trick that gives them their unique texture? Banging the cookie sheet tray against the counter every few minutes as the cookies bake — so that the cookies deflate and give way to a distinctive crinkled texture.

MN-based baker Sarah Kieffer (of pan-banging fame) shares her Neapolitan cookie recipe from her "100 Cookies" book

The Minnesota creator of The Vanilla Bean Blog has a new cookie cookbook out, and she’s flat-out the best pan banger.

This lemon meringue bread has a chewy, crusty meringue top and a tender lemon loaf bottom that's just as good for dessert as it is for breakfast.