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

Chocolate-Gingerbread Cookies

Sugar, spice, and everything nice — especially chocolate — are all essential elements of the holiday season. Combine all three in these festive cookies made with cocoa powder and the fundamental spices used to flavor gingerbread.

Maple-Pumpkin Crème Brûlée

Pumpkin is a given at Thanksgiving, but it deserves to be seen other times of the year. Here's one good reason to enjoy pumpkin earlier in the season.

Apple-Cranberry Pie

This pie is no run-of-the-mill dessert — a perfect blend of apples and sweet cranberries topped with irresistible almond streusel. Vanilla ice cream is optional (but oh so good!).

Cinnamon-Almond Bars

Store-bought candy bars are a thing of the past. Sweeten up your homemade cooking by making your own candy that will taste even better than the prepackaged stuff.

Raspberry Thumbprints

These cookies are easy to make and a great way to get children in on the act — with close supervision, of course. This recipe is super fun and easy to make, and can be customized with whatever fruits your prefer.

Apple-Ginger Bread

Studded with fruit and nuts, this quick bread makes a tasty holiday gift. Freeze today, then glaze before gifting.

Chocolate-Chip Banana Bread

What is quick bread, anyway? Some familiar quick breads are biscuits, corn bread, muffins, and these loaf breads. What they all have in common is that they use baking soda or powder to rise instead of yeast.

Banana-Spice Muffins with Streusel Topping

Muffins aren’t new to the low-fat scene—every coffee shop has them. These muffins taste great and they're the healthier option when you're craving a sweet pastry. The best part is you can make them all yourself.

Black Cherry Sauce

Black Cherry sauce is a flavorful and versatile sauce that can be topped over almost any dessert, like chocolate cake or vanilla ice cream. This recipe really puts the cherry on top of your favorite desserts.

Molten Chocolate Cakes

These individual cakes have a pocket of chocolate that oozes out of a warm cake. Then they're topped with warm Black Cherry Sauce.

Wine-poached pears with vanilla-cinnamon sauce

Your average Anjou may not seem as “sexy” as trendier fruits. But poach it in red wine and—hello! Plain-jane pears become a delicacy!

Granola mini-cakes with cottage icing

Granola is big in these little cakes, adding a variety of whole grains and nuts for a hearty texture.