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The Best of 2025
See ya, 2025. Don’t let the screen door hit you on the way out! (Seriously though, what a year!) The biggest milestone of 2025—for us at least—was the launch of Fresh Baked Puns, finally putting some of my favorite food puns on tshirts, tea towels, stickers and more (psst! If you missed it, I just […]
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The Best of 2025
** December 29, 2025
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by Lindsay Landis
See ya, 2025. Don’t let the screen door hit you on the way out! (Seriously though, what a year!)
The biggest milestone of 2025—for us at least—was the launch of Fresh Baked Puns, finally putting some of my favorite food puns on tshirts, tea towels, stickers and more (psst! If you missed it, I just added Live Laugh Loaf totes and aprons to the shop! The aprons in particular are extremely limited in quantity, so if you want one, I wouldn’t wait too long.)
I’m currently in the sketching phase for the next two designs coming very soon… let’s just say you butter be on the mailing list if you want first dibs.
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Puns aside, we published only 26 recipes this year. The lowest count yet, continuing with the trend of focusing more on quality over quantity. But you know what? I’m darn proud of those 26 recipes and the work that went into them! I think I tested the pecan bars 6 times? 7 times? I honestly can’t even remember any more, I just know I went through a lot of pecans.
Anyway. I’ve done a best of post every year for the past 16 years (!!) and I’m not about to stop such a long-standing tradition despite the fact my brain is half mush—I mean, cookie dough—at this point in the year.
As for what’s in store for 2026… I already have a few recipes in the works that I know you’re going to love. I just need to hunker down and photograph the darn things. Then edit the photos. Then write the recipe and the post. Then promote it… (seriously though, every post takes hours and hours to pull together these days, no wonder I’m not publishing as frequently as I used to).
And while I’ve never been the resolutions type, I’ve got a few big goals in addition to trying to develop some better habits this coming year, including:
- Draw everyday.
- Bake more homemade bread.
- Make more homemade pasta.
- Learn to shoot with artificial light (I’m so sick of fighting the sun).
- Release at least 4 new pun designs (one every quarter).
- Figure out ways to better market myself and Fresh Baked Puns (marketing expert I am not).
- Get more recipes converted, including metric measurements (I’ve made it back to 2019… still 12 more years—and 818 more recipes—to go!)
- Eat less sugar ehhhh who are we kidding. That sweet tooth isn’t going anywhere!
What about you? What are you most excited for in the new year?
(Click through to see which recipe came out on top!)
[Photo grid of 9 top visited recipe posts of 2025.]
Your Favorite Recipes of the Year
These were the top recipes published this year! The Pecan Pie Bars beat the rest by leaps and bounds (it’s been awhile since I had a recipe go viral like this, so it was very exciting to see y’all go nuts over these—literally.)
1. Pecan Pie Shortbread Cookie Bars / 2. Creamy Sundried Tomato & Italian Sausage Pasta / 3. Homemade Pistachio Syrup / 4. Chocolate Banana Cream Pie / 5. Caramelized Candied Hazelnuts / 6. Pistachio Butter Blossoms / 7. Flourless Hazelnut Cake / 8. Meyer Lemon Cheesecake Bars / 9. Small Batch Stovetop Applesauce
[Photo grid of top 9 recipe posts of 2025.]
All-Time Favorites
If we look at all-time popular recipes, not just those posted in the past year… you’ll probably recognize the top 3 which haven’t changed a wink from last year (y’all can’t get enough of that pistachio butter!) along with both flourless cakes. The Pecan Pie bars were a surprise addition, having gone moderately viral when I posted them in November (and for good reason!)
1. Homemade Pistachio Butter / 2. Crispy Oven-Roasted Broccolini / 3. Soft Amaretti Cookies / 4. Pecan Pie Shortbread Cookie Bars / 5. Flourless Pistachio Cake with Chocolate Ganache / 6. Homemade Feuilletine / 7. Flourless Almond Cake / 8. Sourdough Crackers with Olive Oil & Herbs / 9. Classic Strawberry Jam
[Photo grid of top recipes for each month of 2025.]
This view cracks me up, I almost didn’t include it this time because, well, just look at it! It was the year of pistachio butter, apparently. Y’all are Dubai chocolate obsessed!
January-October: Homemade Pistachio Butter / November: Pecan Pie Shortbread Cookie Bars / December: Soft Amaretti Cookies
[Photo grid of 9 top liked Instagram posts of 2025.]
Instagram continues its devolution into one of my least-liked platforms. I swear sometimes more people see what I post on my little kitten account with approximately 400 followers than on my main account with 120k+. Talk about frustrating. Probably why I’ve been spending more time on Threads lately than anywhere else (it sort of reminds me a bit of the early Twitter days, just with more Meta BS).
1. Flourless Pistachio Cake with Chocolate Ganache / 2. Chocolate Maraschino Layer Cake / 3. Strawberry Elderflower Tiramisu / 4. Glazed Matcha Sugar Cookies / 5. Flourless Hazelnut Cake / 6. Pistachio Sour Cream Cheesecake / 7. Cookies ‘n Cream Puff Ice Cream Sandwiches / 8. Lemon Meringue Butter Cake / 9. Meyer Lemon Cheesecake Bars
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Farewell, 2025! It’s been… something. Can’t say you’ll be missed. Here’s to a 2026 filled with food, fun, and plentiful puns.
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posted December 29, 2025
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