Best Quick Breads

Making quick bread (leavened with baking powder and baking soda) can take only 20 minutes of work. F&W’s Grace Parisi shows how.

Orange Popovers

For these foolproof popovers, add a bit of baking powder to the batter and use a regular (not nonstick) muffin tin.

Pull-Apart Cheesy Onion Bread

This recipe is as fun to eat as monkey bread (little balls of yeast dough that are baked in a pan together, then pulled apart at the table) but a lot less time-consuming to make.

Yogurt-Zucchini Bread with Walnuts

This moist, nutty bread is a terrific way to use up late-summer zucchini. The walnuts in the bread are super-heart-healthy, and the yogurt adds moisture without any fat.

Chorizo-Olive Griddle Cakes with Chile Butter

These little patties are moist and dense, almost like a griddle scone. Cook them on a griddle, just like pancakes, and serve them with a spicy butter made with sambal oelek (Asian chile sauce).

Pecan-Maple Sticky Rolls

Two shortcuts for these incredible faux sticky buns: use a biscuit dough instead of a yeast dough and bake it with maple syrup instead of homemade caramel.

Lemon-Cheesecake Streusel Squares

The swirl of lemony cream cheese running through this cake makes it deliciously moist. It’s hard to resist picking off pieces of the buttery crumble on top.

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Published September 2009