Comfort Baking? Pro Bakers Offer Some Sweet Inspiration

In stressful and uncertain times, baking offers solace, joy, and the sweetest rewards

Soft, ultra-rich, and packed with both bittersweet and unsweetened chocolate, Joanne Chang's double chocolate rye cookies are a chocolate-lover's dream. Kristin Teig

When Samantha Seneviratne finds herself stressed or sad, she soothes her worries with flour and yeast.

“There’s nothing more comforting than a soft, silky ball of dough,” she said. “I call them dough babies.”