He had a bunch. No pun intended. So I did what any reasonable baker would do when late-summer air starts hinting at fall. I browned some butter until the kitchen smelled nutty and caramel-rich, toasted some pecans, mashed those bananas, and made brown butter banana bread for the neighborhood. There’s something about that smell. Brown butter, warm banana, toasted nuts, cinnamon. As the seasons start to turn, I swear our senses wake up a little more. The kitchen feels warmer. The bread means more. I baked mine as these big bakery-style muffins too. Same recipe, same deep flavor, just more crackly top to fight over. The recipe is in my FREE Recipe Pantry: https://recipepantry.app/recipes/banana-bread And if you’re looking for a place to actually learn bread, ask questions, bake with other people, and get better at this, come find us inside Crust & Crumb Academy, the #1 bread-baking community on Skool. Come bake with us. Henry⭐️🔥

You’ve seen the photos. Perfect cinnamon rolls on Instagram, glossy and towering, icing running down the sides. And somewhere in the back of your head a voice says, I could never make that. That’s not true. So you buy a lesser version instead. You’d rather drive across town for something you don’t love than make something at home you would. And look, I’m not knocking Cinnabon. Those are good. But it reminds me of how most of us use AI. The first answer comes back and it’s decent, so we take it. We never ask for a second. We settle at the first acceptable thing and call it done. Baking works the same way. The store-bought roll is the first answer. It’s fine. It’s not what you actually wanted. These are Henry’s Big Gooey Cinnamon Rolls, straight out of my Recipe Pantry. I made this batch in a toaster oven with a tangzhong I cooked in the microwave, because I don’t have a stovetop right now. If I can pull that off, you can make these in a real kitchen with both hands tied behind your back. Picture your house on a Sunday morning. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and warm dough in every room. Somebody comes downstairs before you’ve even called them. You don’t have to figure it out alone. Come find us at Crust & Crumb Academy, where we bake together and skip past most of the mistakes that make people quit. The Recipe Pantry is free and yours to use at recipepantry.app. The community is where it all comes together. The recipe: https://recipepantry.app/recipes/henrys-big-gooey-cinnamon-rolls The community: https://skoo.ly/crust-crumb-academy Come bake with us. Perfection is not required. Progress is. ~ Henry ⭐🔥

𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱. The original Red Light Green Light was simple: you've got about ten seconds to grab someone's attention and tell them who you are and what you do. That's it. One line. No warm-up, no explanation, no "let me tell you a little about myself first." This weekend, we're getting really good at that one line. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆: Comment below with ONE line (figure out how to get hyper specific and focused) your name/business + what you do, tight enough to land in ten seconds flat. Not two lines. Not a line and a follow-up sentence. One. Then go give feedback on a few others using the light system: 🔴 Needs work — too vague, doesn't land, missing the hook 🟡 Getting there — good bones, but something's holding it back 🟢 GREEN LIGHT — this is clear, clicky, and ready to go ⚠️𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝟮+ 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 from other members. Don't jump the gun! Give feedback before you ask for it — the best rounds are the ones where everyone's playing both sides. 🏆 And there's always a winner: whoever gives the most valuable feedback this weekend earns a 24-hour pinned post. You win by helping others. 🏆 Last round's winner: @Aimee Jardon! She showed up big, giving thoughtful, specific feedback to over a dozen different members... proof that this game rewards the people who help others, not just the ones posting their own stuff. That pinned post is all yours this week, Aimee! 🎉 Honorable mentions: @Jenny Rader-Bakos, @Lisa Vanderveen, and @Glenn Summers... y'all brought the heat too. Thank you for show how it's done!👏 Now ... go get that green light!

@Patty Rose and I were just chatting about how the notifications are still out of control EVEN with making the adjustments on the back end and @Lisa Drennon finally convinced me to just hit "Delete All" on the 550+ that were constantly taunting me. So .... FAVOR TO ASK OF YOU ALL! Back in March I asked Skoolers for a feature request. Let's make that post come back alive and get them to listen to this one! Go check it out here and put your two cents in! Please & thank you!

Haha. Just kidding. But not really. @Heather Boers is soooo good at giving us all kicks in the 🍑 and helping us level up, because those levels is where. It's. At. I have 1,151 points to go to Level 7. So I want you to guess: - how long will it take me to get there? And if you guess right, what should I gift the winner? Guess the timeframe in the comments. And pick what you think the reward should be in the poll. Aaaannnnnddddd go!