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The Journey to Pavlova
Want to know what goes into recipe testing? Sometimes, it's 17 tries to get something just right! Here's the journey to pavlova – plus key tips and tricks to making the perfect pavlova every time.
The Secrets to the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Want to know the secrets to making the best chocolate chip cookies? We're spilling everything, from if you should use butter or shortening to which kind of chocolate chips to use. Plus, grab our recipe for the best chocolate chip cookies.
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Healthy Popsicles
With this simple tip, have healthy treats on hand at all times for when your sweet tooth hits!
Versatile Ideas for Using Up That Leftover Eggnog
Eggnog is simple to make and can be used in lots of tasty ways, any time of year. Here are a few inspiring ideas.
How to Make Caramel Stick to Apples
Do you love caramel apples but your sweet, buttery coating won't stick? This simple tip comes to the rescue.
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Recipes
Angel Food Cake with Whipped Cream & Strawberries
When it comes to angel food cake, the devil is in the details — little things can truly make a big difference in taste and texture. And this version is so good, it’s almost sinful.
While simple, there are a few tips and a little technique to making an angel food cake. For starters, using cake flour and powdered sugar makes for a fine-crumbed, tender cake. But using granulated sugar to beat the egg whites ensures a more stable, airier meringue. However, be sure to add the sugar gradua…
Shaker Lemon Pie
The Shakers waste-nothing mentality is evident in this Shaker Lemon Pie where the whole lemon — peel, pith, and flesh — is utilized.
Dessert Gnocchi with Cinnamon-Sugar Bread Crumbs
Turn perfect, pillowy potato dumplings into a decadent dessert with cinnamon bread crumbs and a brown butter sauce. Learning how to make gnocchi takes a little technique, but you’ll be making ethereal nuggets in no time. Top the base recipe with sweetened bread crumbs and you’ve got the simplest dessert gnocchi ever.
Coffee Coffee Cake
We’ve all likely had coffee cake, but none that actually contains any coffee. This simple cake is bursting with so much coffee flavor, you won’t even need to dunk it. This cake is infused with rich coffee flavor in three forms — freshly brewed coffee, instant espresso powder, and pure coffee extract. Just the wake up you need for brunch — but don't hesitate to serve this for dessert, too.
Tahini Cookies
Tahini in desserts is a popular trend right now, but it's certainly nothing new. It's been used in Middle Eastern desserts for a long time — it's the peanut butter of the Middle East. Not quite as sweet, but as deliciously nutty, these tahini cookies are like grown up peanut butter cookies.
Plum Trifles with Amaretti Cookies
Healthy desserts that are actually satisfying can be hard to come by — but not with this fruit trifle. Layers of yogurt, almonds, amaretti cookies, and a sweet red wine syrup complement the flavor of ripe plums. Feel free to use any stone fruits you like in place of the plums.
No-Bake Greek Yogurt Cheesecake with Brown Sugar Blueberries and Poppy Seeds
This No-Bake Greek Yogurt Cheesecake is creamy and tangy, with a hint of sweetness. Plus, it's a make-ahead dessert, leaving you more time to spend with your friends and family. If you have leftover blueberries, save them to put on your yogurt or serve with whipped cream or ice cream for a simple dessert.
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There are as many versions of this sticky delight as there are cultures around the world that make it. But this Persian-style variation stands out from the crowd, and for good reason. Made with both almonds and pistachios, and flavored with Persian mainstays like orange, cardamom, and rose water, this is surely a treat you can’t pass up. If you thought making baklava was only for the experienced baker, it’s not. This multi-layer confection is simple with essentially only three compone…
Baklava with Orange & Cardamom
Lemon Blancmange with Raspberry Sauce
This luscious lemon dessert is certain to be a direct flight to love. Blancmange [bluh-MAHNZH], meaning “white eat,” is the French equivalent to Italy’s panna cotta. And in terms of this dessert, you absolutely must make it beforehand to give it time to chill before serving.
Brooklyn Blackout Cake
Calling all chocoholics! This seriously is, hands down, without question, the best chocolate cake you’ll ever eat. It’s so good you’ll find yourself sneaking around for another slice. Go ahead, try to take just one bite.
Though this cake wasn’t named to describe its insane level of dark chocolatiness, its moniker really is fitting. This World War II-era cake was made famous by a bakery chain out of Brooklyn, New York called Ebinger’s. And though they’re no longer in business, this con…
Trail Mix Bars
Trail mix is all fine-and-dandy, but make it even better (and less messy) by packing it into portable bars for on-the-go snacking. Full of healthy fats and sugars from nuts and dried fruit, these naturally sweetened bars are both filling and satisfying.
Chocolate Pudding Cakes
Nothing says “be mine” like a rich chocolate confection. And these Chocolate Pudding Cakes are sure to capture your nearest and dearest’s heart.
Not only do individual pudding cakes make quite the statement, but they’re incredibly chocolatey and so light and smooth that everyone will ask to be your valentine. And the best part, you can serve them warm, at room temperature, or chilled (so they can be made ahead). How sweet is that?