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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

Apple Cider Doughnuts with Cider Glaze or Cinnamon Sugar

Apple Cider Doughnuts are the quintessential orchard treat — who doesn’t love biting into a warm, freshly glazed (or sugared) homemade doughnut? Reducing apple cider intensifies the flavor, and whisking it into a glaze adds another layer of fruit flavor. Whether you serve these for breakfast, brunch, or as a fall dessert, they’re truly one of fall’s greatest pleasures for both kids and adults, alike.

Nectarine Torte with Hazelnuts & Orange

Tortes are rich cakes often made with little or no flour, but usually include ground nuts or bread crumbs. A showcase for summer stone fruit, each bite of this simple, subtly sweet cake is an ode to the end of the season. Based on old-fashioned European plum cakes, this nectarine adaptation starts with a simple ingredient list. Adding ground hazelnuts and fresh orange zest give it big-time flavor, while the nuts create a moist cake. And the lack of any liquid dairy ingredients makes for a ca…

Strawberry Shortcake Bars with Fresh Strawberry Topping

If you love strawberry shortcake, these Strawberry Shortcake Bars are for you. With incredible fresh strawberry flavor in every bite, there’s no holding back. Strawberry shortcake is to summer what apple pie is to fall. And if this favorite seasonal dessert brings you to your knees, this recipe is for you. For a new take on this iconic dessert, take all the layers and repackage them into an easy-to-make and incredible-tasting bar.

Start with a fresh strawberry-studded shortcake dough…

Strawberry-Chocolate Shortcake Cookies

Take all the layers of this tender, fruity dessert and condense them into one impossibly light, airy, fresh-flavored cookie, and it’s like summer all year long!

Shortcake is delicious, but when prepared the typical way, it can feel a little old-fashioned. A sweet biscuit-like cake that’s often rolled and cut like biscuits, it’s layered with sugar-macerated strawberries, whipped cream, and sometimes chocolate. These tender cookies take all those elements and repackage them into an easi…

Raspberry Bombe with vanilla wafers

This Raspberry Bombe combines the fruit with cream cheese and whipped cream, plus layers of vanilla wafers for a fun cheesecake-like dessert that's bound to delight.

French Crêpes

Versatile French Crêpes are perfect any time of day — breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, or dessert. From sweet to savory, anything goes. Check out our article to learn How to Make Perfect French Crêpes, then start dreaming up new fillings all your own. Even with just a light spread of jam or Nutella, a thin, lacy crêpe straight from the skillet is a delicacy all by itself.…

Tiramisù Crêpes with mascarpone

Sweet (but not too sweet) and creamy, Tiramisù Crêpes are the perfect pièce de résistance at the end of a meal. With the French Crêpes recipe, you can easily springboard into crêpe heaven. Delicate crêpes wrap around billowy tiramisù-inspired pastry cream for a light-tasting dessert... (shhh, it’s not low-cal).

Best-Ever Carrot Cake

Packed with pineapple, coconut, raisins, and walnuts, this is one fully loaded, fabulous, Best-Ever Carrot Cake. Just one bite of this confection, inspired by morning glory muffins and wrapped in a luscious, lemony, cream cheese frosting, and you may end up wanting to eat this cake for every meal of the day, breakfast included.

Peach Alexander with White Chocolate Whipped Cream

Don’t settle for a plain-Jane vanilla ice cream dessert when you can have so much more. Peach Alexanders are a cool and delicious way to end an evening meal. This decadent grown-up drink also makes a delightful dessert!

Strawberry-Frangipane Tart

Celebrate strawberries when they’re at their best with a tart that’s not only mouthwatering, but a visual stunner as well.

Plump and juicy, ripe fresh strawberries are delicious on their own, but sometimes you want to showcase them. Do so in this tart with two strawberry toppings. All you need to get started is a food processor.

First, process the dough to form the cookie-like crust. If it breaks when pressing it into the pan, just patch it back together. Next, fill the tart sh…

Cheddar-Caramel Popcorn Bars

If a trip to the Windy City isn’t on your itinerary, don’t worry. A treat combining the city’s favorite popcorn combo stands in until you can experience the real deal.

Chicago is famous for a lot of things — Wrigley Field, the Navy Pier, the Field Museum — the list could go on. Add popcorn to that list. Since 1949, Garrett Popcorn Shops have popped up salty snacks in Chitown, and legend has it that their customers created this now infamous “Chicago Mix” buying and mixing their Carame…

Coconut Banana Pudding

Simple, comforting, and timeless, there is no better finish to any meal than a few bites of this classic Southern dessert.

Sweet, creamy, and full of contrasting textures, banana pudding is an all-occasion dessert. It’s classy enough for a sit-down dinner yet casual enough for cookouts (and that’s exactly where you’ll find large bowls of it in the southern United States).

While the actual pudding in classic banana pudding isn’t banana-flavored at all (vanilla pudding with fresh…