A collection of the highest-rated Modern Honey recipes of all time. Tried-and-true favorites with thousands of 5-star reviews from readers like you.
There are some recipes I make once, love, and move on from. And then there are these.
The recipes in this collection are the ones you keep coming back to. They’re the ones filling my inbox, the ones tagged on Instagram on birthdays and Sunday mornings and random Tuesday nights, the ones people tell me they’ve made so many times the page is splattered and the card is memorized. Some of them have thousands and thousands of five-star reviews. A few have been made in more kitchens than I can wrap my head around. These are the Modern Honey greatest hits, all in one place.
Every single recipe here was tested in my own kitchen before it ever went live, and most were tested many times over. I bake a cake five or six different ways before I decide on the one. I adjust the oven temperature, swap the flour, change the order of the mixing, and take notes until it works every single time. Then it goes out into the world, and thousands of home cooks put it to the real test.
5-Star Rated Recipes
So if you’ve ever scrolled through a recipe and wondered whether it actually works, start here. This is the tried-and-true list. No guessing, no gambling on a weeknight when everyone’s hungry and you have one shot at dinner. These are the recipes I hand over when a friend asks what to bring to a party, what to make for a new mom, what to serve when their in-laws are coming and everything needs to go right.
You’ll find a little of everything below — the desserts people make year after year, the dinners that have quietly become weeknight staples in thousands of homes, the breakfasts worth setting an alarm for, and the side dishes that get requested at every holiday.
We are starting with the very first recipe I have ever shared on Modern Honey. Long before I started this website, I created this recipe after so much experimentation and it is still one of my all-time favorite chocolate chip cookies to make.
Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Crush Cookies
The BEST Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Copycat Cookie Recipe. View Recipe
Love at First Sight Chocolate Cake
The BEST Chocolate Cake Recipe in the World. This decadent chocolate cake is rich, moist, and will cure your chocolate cravings. View Recipe
The Best Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe
The Best Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe. Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies. The popular cinnamon-sugar soft and chewy sugar cookie recipe. A recipe that has been in the family for over 30 years! View Recipe
Chinese Orange Chicken
Chinese Orange Chicken that is way better than take-out! View Recipe
Homemade Bakery French Bread
Homemade bakery french bread in minutes. This super simple and easy french bread recipe will be a hit in your home. It only takes a little more than an hour to have hot, fresh bread straight out of the oven. Forget the bakery when you can make it at home! View Recipe
Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting
Homemade Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting will be the cake everyone is begging for at the next birthday party. View Recipe
Marry Me Chicken
Marry Me Chicken. Famous skillet chicken in a sundried tomato parmesan cream sauce with fresh basil. It will definitely inspire marriage proposals! View Recipe
The Best Moist Cornbread Recipe
This is the best cornbread recipe that is moist, tender, and flavorful. This homemade cornbread recipe is both sweet and savory and perfect for pairing with honey butter. View Recipe
Better than a Boyfriend Brownies
This rich and fudgy brownie will satisfy all your chocolate cravings. View Recipe
The Best Chicken Marinade Recipe
The Best Chicken Marinade Recipe makes chicken extra juicy and flavorful. This savory grilled chicken marinade makes the perfect mouthwatering grilled chicken! Everyone loves this 5-star-rated chicken marinade.View Recipe
The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies
Here’s a tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe that will impress everyone! View Recipe
The Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe
The best pumpkin pie recipe made with cream cheese and butter which makes it extra rich and creamy. Award-winning creamy pumpkin pie recipe has a secret ingredient to make it extra special! This is the best pumpkin pie recipe and won the best pumpkin pie on the internet! View Recipe
Fettuccine Alfredo
The perfect homemade fettuccine alfredo using heavy cream, butter, parmesan cheese, and a touch of garlic. View Recipe
Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake
A light and fluffy lemon olive oil cake made with olive oil and topped with lemon vanilla cream cheese frosting. View Recipe
The Best Homemade Dinner Rolls
Buttery, fluffy homemade dinner rolls are always a huge hit!
Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Copycat Cookies
The ORIGINAL Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Copycat Cookies. These have a 5 star rating for a reason! View Recipe
Key Lime Cake
Key Lime Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Moist key lime cake with sweet cream cheese frosting. A light and fluffy citrus lime cake with the perfect lime buttercream frosting! The BEST Lime Cake Recipe! View Recipe
Chuy’s Creamy Jalapeno Cilantro Dip Dressing
This popular dip/dressing can be a great dip for chips or a flavorful dressing on a salad or burrito bowl. View Recipe
Lemon Raspberry Cake
The Best Light and Fluffy Lemon Cake with Fresh Raspberries and a Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting. View Recipe
Miracle One Hour White Bread
Miracle One Hour Homemade White Bread Recipe is perfect made-from-scratch bread in no time at all. View Recipe
Lemon Sugar Cookies
Soft and Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies are the perfect balance of sweet and slightly tart. View Recipe
Banana Oatmeal Pancakes
Healthy Banana Oatmeal Pancakes made with only 7 ingredients – oats, almond milk, banana, eggs, egg whites, baking powder, salt, and a touch of real maple syrup. Sugar-free, oil-free, gluten-free, and dairy-free pancakes. These are the best healthy pancakes have zero butter or oil in them. These light and fluffy gluten-free pancakes will keep you full and satisfied without all of the fillers. These Banana Oat Pancakes are whipped up in a blender in no time at all. You won't believe how good they taste! View RecipeNewer recipes with the most comments:
Here are some other newer recipes posted within the past four years that have received the most comments. So many of you have loved these, and I love reading your comments. I always appreciate your feedback! Have you tried any of these recipes? If so, which ones are your favorites?
Honey Chicken
This Honey Chicken is tender chicken tossed in a skillet with butter, honey, garlic, fresh lemon juice, spices, and soy sauce. This Honey Lemon Chicken is a quick and easy 15-minute chicken dish.View Recipe
Levain Bakery Chocolate Toffee Cookies (Coffee Toffee Cookies)
Rich, decadent, thick chocolate cookies filled with chocolate covered toffee chunks. View Recipe
Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwiches
This easy slow cooker French dip sandwich recipe features tender beef, savory au jus, caramelized onions, and melted provolone cheese. View Recipe
Best Monster Cookies
Best Monster Cookies. The Best Peanut Butter Monster Cookies are made with creamy peanut butter, hearty oats, chocolate chips, and M&M's. These soft and chewy Monster cookies are loved by everyone…especially peanut butter enthusiasts! View Recipe
Thin and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Rich, buttery, and loaded with melty chocolate, these cookies are the perfect balance of crisp edges and soft, gooey centers. View Recipe
Easy Homemade Mac and Cheese
This quick and easy creamy mac and cheese recipe has a silky smooth cheese sauce and tossed with pasta and topped with melted cheese. View Recipe
Levain Bakery Raspberry Pistachio Cookies
These Levain Bakery Raspberry Pistachio cookies are a homemade copycat of Levain Bakery's new summer flavor, which combines raspberry chips, crunchy pistachios, and creamy white chocolate chips in their signature thick, bakery-style cookie. Our version uses a homemade raspberry chip made from crushed freeze-dried raspberries and white chocolate for that same fruity flavor without needing specialty baking chips. These cookies are thick, gooey, and loaded with tart raspberry, rich white chocolate, and crunchy salted pistachios in every bite! View Recipe
Tuscan White Bean Soup
Tuscan White Bean Soup is a hearty Italian soup made with white beans, vegetables, garlic, herbs, and savory broth. View Recipe
Cottage Cheese Protein Bagels
Quick, easy, chewy homemade bagels with over 10 grams of protein in each bagel and made with only 5 ingredients. View Recipe
Levain Bakery Two Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies
Levain Bakery Two Chip Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe is their classic chocolate chip cookie made without nuts. Perfectly crispy on the outside and satisfyingly thick and gooey in the center, this cookie is brimming with semi-sweet and dark chocolate chips.View Recipe
No Knead Bread
No Knead Overnight Crusty Bread Recipe. This No Knead Bread is baked in a dutch oven and is the perfect crusty french bread recipe. This makes a beautiful artisan loaf of bread and is so easy! The only ingredients you need are flour, water, salt, and yeast for the perfect overnight crusty bread. View Recipe
Lunch Lady Frosted Brownies
Rich, decadent, fudgy brownies topped with chocolate frosting. These Lunch Lady Brownies are the perfect frosted brownies recipe. View Recipe
Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Orzo
Creamy Chicken Broccoli Orzo made with sauteed chicken, fresh broccoli, orzo pasta in a cheesy sauce. This easy Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Orzo Skillet 30-minute meal is creamy and delicious! View Recipe
Levain Bakery Carrot Cake Cookies
These Levain Bakery Carrot Cake Cookies are everything you love about carrot cake in a soft, thick cookie. Made with shredded carrots, warm spices, white chocolate chips, dried apricots and pecans. View Recipe
Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
This is the best Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup recipe! This Chicken Orzo Soup is made with tender chicken with onions, carrots, celery, and garlic in a fresh lemon cream broth with fresh parmesan cheese. You will love this lemon chicken soup recipe!View Recipe
Lemon Cake
The Best Lemon Cake Recipe is moist, light, and fluffy made with fresh lemon juice and layered with lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting. This is the lemon cake of your dreams! View Recipe
TikTok Cinnamon Rolls
The famous, viral TikTok Cinnamon Rolls with heavy cream are even better than Cinnabon! These TikTok Cinnamon Rolls made with canned cinnamon rolls, a homemade buttery cinnamon drizzle, and a cream cheese frosting are the easiest cinnamon rolls you will ever make! View Recipe
Greek Chicken Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce
Marinated Greek Chicken topped with homemade Tzatziki sauce and Greek salad in warm pita bread. View Recipe
Levain Bakery Rocky Road Cookies
These Levain Bakery Rocky Road Cookies are rich, thick, soft, chewy chocolate cookies with semi-sweet chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, and cashews. The best Levain Bakery Copycat Rocky Road Cookie Recipe!View Recipe
One Bowl Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
ONE BOWL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPE An easy one bowl cookie recipe that creates a chewy chocolate chip cookie with crisp buttery edges. View Recipe
Boursin Cheese Baked TikTok Pasta
Boursin Cheese Baked TikTok Pasta Freshly cooked pasta tossed with baked Boursin cheese, tomatoes, garlic, spices, and parmesan cheese. This easy-baked pasta recipe will knock your socks off! View Recipe
Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
Soft Chewy Oatmeal Cookies with sweetened dried cranberries. These Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies always receive 5-star reviews. You will love these Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies! View Recipe
Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe for Two
Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe for Two. A quick and easy 15-minute start to finish chocolate chip cookie recipe for two people. This small-batch cookie recipe yields 2 to 3 cookies so perfect when you are craving cookies but don't want to make a big batch. View Recipe
Levain Bakery Lemon Cookies
These soft, thick, chewy, bakery-style Levain Bakery Lemon Cookies are made with three types of lemon flavoring plus lemon chips. You will love these bakery style lemon cookies! View Recipe
Vanilla Cake Recipe
How to make the best vanilla cake recipe. This homemade vanilla cake with vanilla frosting is a moist, light, and fluffy white cake recipe. View Recipe
Best French Toast Recipe
There is an art to making the best French toast and I will share tips and tricks for achieving the perfect balance of buttery, crisp edges and custardy centers. These tips will elevate your French toast at home. View Recipe
Homemade Green Bean Casserole
A homemade green bean casserole made from scratch with a creamy sauce and crispy fried onions. A classic old-fashioned Thanksgiving side dish recipe. View Recipe
Crispy Smashed Potatoes
Crispy Smashed Potatoes. Crispy smashed potatoes with creamy, fluffy centers and crispy outsides. Petite potatoes topped with olive oil, salted butter, salt, and pepper and baked until crispy and topped with a garlic cheddar sour cream dip. The best smashed potatoes recipe! View RecipeSave this post, pin your favorites, and come back to it whenever you need something you know will work. And when you make one, leave a review. Your rating is how the next person finds their new favorite recipe.
