Desserts


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Tips

No-Drip Ice Cream Cones

Love ice cream but hate when it drips out of your cone? This fun trick with stop the dripping and adds a sweet surprise!

How to Keep Brown Sugar Soft & Fresh

This quick tip keeps brown sugar fresh and soft, while also keeping things tidy by using something often thrown away.

How to Quickly Bring Eggs & Butter to Room Temperature

So you forgot to take your eggs and butter out of the fridge in time for your baking adventure...we've all been there! Here's a quick and easy way to bring eggs and butter up to room temperature any time you need them.

New, Unique Way to Make a Pretty Pie Crust

Are you looking for a new way to top a pie crust that is fun and easy? Here's a great tip you'll want to use again and again.

How to Blind-Bake a Pie Crust

Does your recipe call for prebaking a pie crust? Here's a great tip that answers why and how to blind bake!

Using an Offset Spatula

Spread batter, filling, and frosting with ease using this practical kitchen tool that comes in many sizes.

All About Coconut

Coconut appears in many forms in this slab pie. Here's the code to cracking what each product has to offer.

How to Scoop Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Scoop

Ice cream season is officially in full swing. Leave the scoop in the drawer and use a different utensil for easier serving.

How To Properly Measure Flour

How you measure flour can have a dramatic effect on the amount that ends up in a recipe. Here's how to do it properly.

Decorate Your Food with Pastry Cut-Outs

Decorating Wellingtons with cutouts of puff pastry may seem fussy, but it looks like a million bucks. Here's how to do it.

How to Bake More Cookies, Faster

Use this quick tip to help get your batches of cookies in and out of the oven faster, without having to cool the baking sheet.

How to Melt Chocolate with a Double-Boiler or in the Microwave

What type of chocolate melts best? Learn how to melt chocolate for cakes, brownies, and other desserts—whether you have a microwave, a double boiler, or neither!


How-To's

How To Assemble a Layer Cake with Frosting

Follow these simple steps for a cake that’s both impressive and stable.

All About Cream & How to Whip It

From half-and-half to heavy cream, this smooth and rich cooking and baking cornerstone is explained. Now you can case the dairy aisle with confidence. Plus, if you ever wondered about the difference between soft peaks, medium peaks, and stiff peaks, we'll teach you.


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Recipes

No-Fail Fudge

The path to creamy fudge used to be paved with meticulous cooking and constant beating. This practically foolproof recipe makes the road to perfect fudge a lot smoother.

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

The quintessential holiday treat, sugar cookies are often more style than substance — but these sour cream sweets are both! Not only does it taste delicious but the dough comes together in just minutes with ingredients you probably already have on hand.

Salted Caramel Tarts

The sweet and savory combo of buttery caramel and sea salt in this tart can’t be beat. A simple pat-in-the-pan short crust that’s more like a cookie than a pastry holds the ooey-gooey filling.

Caramel Apples

Top off your autumn holiday party with a classic fall dessert — the gloriously simple Caramel Apple. The sweet, buttery caramel-coated apples just might take you back to your childhood. They can be stored for up to 3 days in the fridge and are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Caramel Apples are truly one of fall’s greatest pleasures for both kids and adults alike.

Banana Split "Sandwiches" with fruit salad

This grilled banana split is a bit like the iconic soda fountain dessert — but without the puddle of ice cream in the bowl. Here, “sandwiches” of angel food cake are stuffed and grilled with chocolate, creating the finger-licking characteristics of a banana split.

Triple Citrus Salad

This salad plays two roles, doing double duty as a palate cleanser and as a refreshing dessert.

Orange Freeze

Kind of like a Creamsicle milkshake, this delicious citrus beverage is as refreshing as it is easy to make — this sipper is perfect for celebrating spring or during the sweltering summer season when nothing will quench your thirst like a sweet, fruity, cold concoction.

Chocolate Soup

This sexy soup is a cross between hot chocolate and pudding. Could romance be far behind?

Maple-Butter-Pecan Pie

Top off any festive holiday meal with this rich and buttery pie. Pecan-pie lovers will swoon over the maple-sweetened filling and ever-so-flaky crust.

Best-Ever Pie Crust

At the heart of every good pie is a great crust. After testing dozens of recipes in our Test Kitchen, we found this pastry to be the best. The combination of three different fats creates a tender, flaky, flavorful, and baker-friendly crust. You may want to eat it just by itself. And be sure to check out our how-to video on blind baking.

Apple Pie Bars

Don't have time to make pie? These Apple Pie Bars have a lot going for them. Of course they taste good. But where they really excel is in the speed and ease department. This recipe for Apple Pie Bars is so simple to whip together and makes 16 wedges in just an hour — much less time than it takes to make your typical holiday pie.

Oatmeal-Cranberry Cookies

Think oatmeal cookies are too simple for a holiday cookie tray? Well, upgrading a few key ingredients is all it takes to dress these beauties up for a party.