"Bake" To School Guide

From a perfectly layered peanut butter and jelly cake sandwich in your lunch box to something to look forward to when the bell rings - back to school time calls for back to school recipes. With flavors of the fall starting to make their way into our minds, and the temperature starting to drop, we’re looking to get into the kitchen and let our creativity run wild, filling our cookie jars with treats that are perfect for our backpacks. Our tried and true lemon bars deliver big time on portable joy. Banana and hazelnut come together in cupcake form to keep your afterschool TV session company. We even glam up the peanut butter and jelly sandwich into something that will spruce up your lunch hour. You’re sure to be the envy of the cafeteria with these class favorite recipes.

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BAKE CLUB PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY CAKE SAMMIES BANANA CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT CUPCAKES TOSI’S TANGY LEMON BARS CINNAMON BUN COOKIES BAKE CLUB GRANOLA BARS BAKE CLUB POPCORN BALLS

BAKE CLUB PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY CAKE SAMMIES

Nostalgic flavors are kind of our thing at Milk Bar. The flavored milk at the bottom of your cereal bowl, the ooey gooey buttery notes of your mom’s favorite pie, chocolate and peanut butter swirled into an ice cream - we love it all.

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BANANA CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT CUPCAKES

If you’re ever encountered our Banana Hazelnut Layer Cake and thought, “What? That’s amazing. I want to make it. But into cupcakes. And in fewer steps…” you’re in luck! The mini-version of our wildly-popular layer cake comes down to three components: moist banana cupcake, creamy chocolate hazelnut frosting, and a chocolate crumb garnish. They’ve got the “oh, that’s fancy” look with a “wow, that was manageable” charm.

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TOSI’S TANGY LEMON BARS

This Lemon Bar recipe is like sunshine in a bar. If sunshine was tangy, tart, fudgy, and dusted with confectioner’s sugar. The boxed lemon cake mix, cream cheese, and lemon zest make this all-American cookie bar the perfect treat to pair with your bask-in-the-sunshine-related spring activities—egg hunts included.

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CINNAMON BUN COOKIES

A dreamy vanilla cookie dough is swirled with a deep and rich cinnamon dough to create the dynamic base of this cookie, but we didn’t stop there. To this breakfast favorite flavor foundation we added a secret pocket of cream cheese, tucked in just before they are popped into the oven to deliver on that gooey, warm, tangy cinnamon bun promise.

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BAKE CLUB GRANOLA BARS

The simple combination of oats, nuts, honey and oil has been showing up in childrens’ lunch boxes for longer than we can remember—but what makes a granola bar truly great? This recipe pushed the boundaries of virtuosity, jamming more texture and flavor into the classic granola bar format than ever seen before.

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BAKE CLUB POPCORN BALLS

These popcorn balls are the ideal Milk Bar recipe template: buttery, crunchy and sweet as is, but with bountiful space to get wild. These popcorn balls come together in a breeze, leaving plenty of time to raid your pantry for candy, cookies, extracts and more to mix in.

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