The 10 Most Popular Recipes of 2021
The BEST RECIPES of 2021! Everything from dessert, condiments, bread, and main dishes. Check it out and see if your favorite made the list!
In keeping with tradition, it wouldn’t be the week between Christmas and New Year’s without the annual roundup of the most popular recipes on BEB.
I always love putting together this list and uncovering which recipes really stood out among readers throughout the year. I’d love to hear if your favorite made the list, and if it didn’t, tell me what it was!
Here we go!
Better Than “Anything” Cake
This iconic “better than anything” cake features a chocolate cake drenched in caramel and sweetened milk sauce, then topped with whipped topping and toffee bits. It’s always a crowd-pleaser and perfect for parties and potlucks!
No Bake Banana Split Dessert
No-bake banana split dessert is a classic! It layers a graham cracker crust, cream cheese-based filling, bananas, pineapple, strawberries, whipped cream, nuts, chocolate & a cherry on top! Part banana pudding and part icebox cake, it’s a great dessert for the most special holidays or simple gatherings.
Cast Iron Skillet Cheeseburgers
After making these cast iron skillet cheeseburgers, you’ll never want to make them on the grill again! They’re tender, flavorful, and never dry!
Fluffy & Crisp Buttermilk Waffles
These classic buttermilk waffles are easy to make and come out fluffy and crisp each and every time. It’s a must-have recipe for turning an ordinary morning into something extra-special.
Whether you choose to top the waffles with the standard butter and syrup, fresh fruit, whipped cream, sprinkles, chocolate chips, or some combination… you are going to fall in love with this waffle recipe!
Key Lime Pie
This quick and easy key lime pie recipe starts with a graham cracker crust and has a filling consisting of egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk, key lime juice & zest. Topped with fresh whipped cream and a lime twist garnish, it’s a super refreshing pie that tastes like the tropics and is a must-make this summer!
How to Make Meringue: The Ultimate Guide
A basic meringue recipe plus all of my best tips for how to make the perfect meringue, with step-by-step instructions, a video, and tons of advice and troubleshooting tips to ensure your meringue whips up glossy, stiff, and beautiful each and every time!
Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles
A wonderful, simple recipe for homemade refrigerator bread and butter pickles. No canning equipment required… just prepare and pop in the fridge!
Grandma’s Banana Nut Bread
My grandma’s recipe for banana bread is a classic banana bread recipe packed full of mashed bananas and chopped walnuts; it can be prepped in 10 minutes and bakes up super moist and dense. A family favorite!
Classic Burger Sauce
If you dig the sauce on Big Macs or the “special sauce” that high-end sandwich joints slather on their burgers, you are going to LOVE this burger sauce!
And now, THE most popular recipe on Brown Eyed Baker in 2021…
My Favorite White Bread Recipe
This is a classic white bread recipe, and so easy! The loaves bake up incredibly tall, soft and fluffy… the perfect white bread! It has a perfect 5.0 rating with over 1,400 reviews; it’s the best bread recipe for beginner bread bakers or those nervous to work with yeast.
I want to know – what was YOUR favorite Brown Eyed Baker recipe this year?
Thank you for helping to make 2021 a wonderful year; wishing you all the health and happiness that 2022 has to offer! xo
This actually answered my problem, thank you!
love reindeer chow and the monkey bread, as so many more! wishing you all the best in the new year
Kentucky Butter Cake and the yellow cake were my favorite go to recipes this year. Thanks
Love Grandma’s bananas nut bread, simple and easy to make recipe
I absolutely love your mashed potatoes. I’ve also made your classic chili and father-in-law’s spaghetti sauce recipes numerous times. They’re terrific!
Strawberry pretzel salad was amazing.
Many blessings to you and your family in the new year ahead.
Of the 10 most popular recipes for 2021, Grandma’s Banana Bread is the BEST; moist & full of flavor. But other than that, I don’t have a favorite recipe because every recipe I’ve tried is wonderful. Thanks for sharing all of your amazing recipes.
Happy 2022 to you & your family.
Your meatloaf is our favorite!! We make it all the time and when we do, we make an extra one for the freezer. It freezes beautifully for a quick meal at a later date.
Also love your ground beef chili and am making it Sunday!
One of my favorites of yours, that I make multiple times a year for celebrations is your Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake recipe- so good! :)
Thank you very much for your great recipes! I love making them for my wife and family!
Orange cookies with sweet orange glaze were the favorite this Christmas. Love your blog and so many of your recipes.
I made these too for the first time this year. Definitely a new favourite for cookie exchanges. The tip about rubbing orange zest into sugar makes a big difference to the taste. When I realised I forgot to save zest for the icing, I used a tangerine instead – worked well.
We have become great fans of the refrigerator bread & butter pickles! Once my husband took a bite they became his favorite! I make a batch almost every week. Thanks
We made the Classic white bread and it was wonderful. The aroma alone was worth any effort. We (my husband & I) are not great with yeast recipes but this one was not hard and it was delicious. I had a pic, but can’t find it.
Love your blog!
I’ve made the Oreo Cheesecake so many times I can’t count but I’ve had no complaints from my family! It always bakes perfectly & is delicious. I don’t think I’ve ever made a BEB recipe that was a disappointment!
My well loved printout of your “best chili” recipe is oh so sauce-stained, a bit crumpled, and the first thing I refer to on cold New England days when I need inspiration for a hearty lunch/dinner! Paired with skillet corn bread, this is my favorite chili of all time. Thank you!!!
I tried your Gougères recipe for Thanksgiving and they were fantastic! I love your blog! Also, the hamburger sauce is indispensable all summer long for grilled burgers! Keep up the good work, and have a happy new year!
My daughter and I made your cut out sugar cookies with royal frosting this Christmas and they are the best cut outs ever! I have made many of your recipes throughout the years and they are all fantastic!
Happy New Year!
We make your Chipotle Chicken all the time, even in “winter” here in Florida. Thanks for all the recipes but more so, thank you for the optimism, joy and sunshine that the pictures of your family (including dogs) brought during this somewhat dismal year! (And your Friday and Saturday posts that helped me to know what day it was! HA)
Happy New Year, From one Michele to another. My fave recipe was the apple cake. It was perfect for Rosh Hashanah this crazy year! I look forward to another year of deliciousness and your family.
I have made many of the recipes from your site, and have enjoyed all of them. So far my husband is a huge fan of your chili recipe. But two nights ago we had burgers and I made your recipe for “special burger sauce.” The accolades were unbelievable – I deserve none of them, so I’m passing them on to you. My husband could not stop raving over the burger with the “wonderful sauce,” how “fabulous” it was. Thanks so much for turning what is usually a bland burger into a smashing success.
I have made many of your recipes over the past couple of years. My husband and I love the scalloped potatoes, chili and many others. Two nights ago we had burgers with the “special” sauce and my husband went wild over it. You would have thought I had fixed the most extravagant meal ever -I do love to cook!-but his reaction was insane.
Thanks for making what is usually a very ordinary meal quite extraordinary!
Everything I have made from your site is delicious. One of mine and my families favorites is your banana split pie, it has made two appearances in the last two months (as requested by hosts) and a third one this weekend. I changed the crust and used crushed vanilla sandwich cookies with melted butter. OMG! My family went crazy! Nut’s I tell you. With the left over crushed cookies, at severing I sprinkled them over the top. Just when you think something couldn’t get better it does. My nephew’s graduation party is this weekend, instead of cake he has requested this pie.
Hi Michelle, I’ve made a variation of one or 10 ;-) of your cheesecakes over the years. I also made your corn casserole three times over the holidays and have made your roasted potatoes probably weekly this year. Thanks for all of your quality and classic recipes!
Michelle’s corn casserole is sooo good! I love that one, too.
Your crock pot mac and cheese is always on my Thanksgiving menu! Soooo good!!! I have also made your garlic herb & parmesan roasted red potatoes when we have had family over – always a hit!!
Omg sooo many did not make your list. Creamed corn casserole, beef enchiladas, white chicken chili, and how about the many many baked goods. Too many delicious things to count up the faves. They’re all usually great. Look forward to more new deliciousness in 2020. Happy New Year. Many blessings to you and your family.
Oh my gosh! These all look incredible! That burger sauce and those potatoes look like an award winning combo!
Paige
http://thehappyflammily.com
Classic apple pie and bakery style rice krispies 😋!
Two of our favorites made the list: roasted potatoes & crock pot mac & cheese.
The recipe I make the most is the meat sauce recipe-can’t believe that didn’t make the list tho!