Having flour on hand in your pantry is the passport to a world of baking. With this one simple starter ingredient, you can make countless kinds of sweets, from simple cookies to complex pastries. The beauty of baking from scratch is that as you learn as you bake, advancing your skills with each recipe—and you stumble now and again, most of the time the mistakes are still edible (even if they’re not what you’d serve to guests!). We’ve gathered up a lifetime list of our favorite made-from-scratch recipes so that you can experiment, repeat and, most importantly, share incredible baked goods with your friends and family.
