"I’ve created many banana bread recipes over the years but this is my hands-down favorite," says the pastry chef and star of Magnolia Network’s Zoë Bakes. "The butter and brown sugar add to the ...

Zoe Francois built her baking reputation at the Culinary Institute of America in New York and in restaurant kitchens around the Twin Cities of Minnesota. But she traces her “cookie DNA,” as she calls ...

The new "Zoe Bakes Cookies" (Ten Speed Press, $30) is author Zoe Francois' 10th book. This book feels like a lifetime — or lifetimes — in the making, with chapters of your life as well as your ...

She’s taught us to make artisan-quality bread in five minutes a day and steered us through the pitfalls of baking cakes. Now cookbook author and television host Zoë François, of Zoë Bakes, reaches ...

Author Zoë François started a cookie cart business when she was a student at the University of Vermont. Chocolate chip cookies were her specialty. This version, she writes in ‘Zoë Bakes Cookies,’ has ...

She’s taught us to make artisan-quality bread in five minutes a day and steered us through the pitfalls of baking cakes. Now cookbook author and television host Zoë François, of Zoë Bakes, reaches ...

“Zoë Bakes Cakes: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More” by Zoë François (Ten Speed Press, $30) Zoë François grew up in the 1960s on a commune in Vermont, ...

The biggest challenge about our annual Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest is not the baking, but creating your own original recipe. That’s what dozens of bakers have told me when sharing their stories ...

If you are like me and actually enjoy baking cakes from scratch (please, step away from the boxed cake, world!) then find some new flavors to add to your repertoire with “Zoe Bakes Cakes” by Zoe ...