Watch a trailer of cookbook author and pastry chef Zoë François's workshop, Baking to Share: Quick Breads and Muffins, and get a glimpse of the recipes she will share.

Quick Breads and Muffins

Bake along with Zoë as she prepares her favorite comfort food: banana bread. She guides you through the process of lining the loaf pans with butter and parchment paper, preparing the bananas, whipping up the batter and adding a decadent swirl of Nutella.

Banana Bread

Learn to bake Zoë's recipe for delicious blueberry muffins with streusel topping that are tender, moist and chock-full of berries. Also, create simple tulip muffin liners out of parchment paper.

Blueberry Muffins

Learn how to bake chocolate zucchini bread in a beautiful bundt pan as Zoë shares tips for preparing the pan with butter and cocoa powder, adding zucchini to the batter and successfully flipping the quick bread out of the pan.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Bake Zoë’s favorite pumpkin spice bread in a cake pan to create simple, shareable bars. Zoë demonstrates how to roast a whole pumpkin and puree it for the batter as well as make your own spice blend to swirl on top.

Pumpkin Bread

Bake along with Zoë as she prepares her favorite healthy raspberry bran muffins and shares tips for creating a light texture and working with frozen berries. Packed with fiber and fruit, they are an ideal grab-and-go breakfast.

Raspberry Bran Muffins

Learn how to bake Zoë’s Irish soda bread with whole wheat flour and dried cherries. This simple recipe requires little kneading, no resting time and is customizable with both savory and sweet add-ins.

Irish Soda Bread

Give the delicious gift of quick breads with Zoë’s creative packaging tips. Whether packing a raspberry bran muffin for a school lunch or gifting a banana bread loaf to a neighbor, Zoë reveals her favorite ways to send a quick bread care package. 

Tips for Gifting Baked Goods

Learn the fundamentals that make quick breads fast, easy and delicious to prepare. Zoë explains what makes quick breads unique, shares baking tips and demonstrates the essential equipment you’ll need to get started. 

Appendix: Basics of Baking Quick Breads

Learn how to bake delicious quick breads and muffins with Zoë François.

Celebrated pastry chef and cookbook author Zoë François makes baking accessible and empowering to all skill levels.


Zoë François

This is my favorite banana bread. For this recipe, we make two loaves of banana bread with the same batter — one loaf with a decadent swirl of Nutella, and the other simple, plain, and delicious.

For this recipe, I've taken my chocolate zucchini bread and baked it in a Bundt pan for a beautiful presentation.

Chocolate Zucchini Bundt

This pumpkin bread takes warm spices and combines them with creamy, rich pumpkin into a bread that pretty much blows all others out of the water. I crave this cold weather comfort food all season long. I like to bake it in a 9 x 13-inch pan, perfect to cut into squares to pack for school lunches or share with a neighbor.

These are my favorite healthy-ish bran muffins that hit the spot all year round. Packed with fiber and fruit, they’re a perfect grab-and-go breakfast or snack.

Every home in Ireland has their own soda bread recipe, and this is mine. It's a quick, simple recipe that I absolutely love. I'm using dried cherries here, but you can add whatever you want to the dough, including other dried fruit or nuts. You can even make it savory with cheese or olives.

Baking to Share: Quick Breads and Muffins

Chapters

IntroQuick Breads and Muffins

Ch 1Banana Bread

Ch 2Blueberry Muffins

Ch 3Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Ch 4Pumpkin Bread

Ch 5Raspberry Bran Muffins

Ch 6Irish Soda Bread

Ch 7Tips for Gifting Baked Goods

Ch 8Appendix: Basics of Baking Quick Breads

Meet The Creator

Zoë François

Celebrated pastry chef and cookbook author Zoë François makes baking accessible and empowering to all skill levels.