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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
Mocha-Flavored Truffles
Truffles make the best gifts. They’re a cinch to make, are deeply rich and luxurious, and are absolutely, positively chocolate at its finest. For the best truffles, use quality chocolate. For the deepest chocolate flavor, use bittersweet chocolate labeled 60% cacao.
Oatmeal Cream Pies
Nothing evokes instant feelings of nostalgia quite like baked goods. Whether you had the classic Little Debbie version of these sweet sandwich cookies as a special childhood treat, or you sent your kids to school with one in their lunch box every day, chances are you’re familiar with their chewy, melt-in-your mouth texture and marshmallow creme filling.
Peanut Butter Seven Layer Bars
Peanut butter fans unite. Complete with a layer of creamy peanut butter and topped with roasted peanuts, these bars are a peanut butter lover’s dream — but they offer much more, as well. A layer of chocolate pleases those with a sweet tooth, and shredded coconut satisfies those who crave a little texture
Strawberry Ice Cream
Take ordinary strawberry ice cream up a notch by roasting fresh strawberries, to intensify their flavor, then blend them into a sweet custard ice cream base.
Benne Crescents
These unusual cookies get a one-two punch of fl avor from sesame seeds, which are known as benne [BEHN-ee] in the South. Rolled in toasted seeds to give them a coating with delicate crunch, these crescents include a surprise ingredient that gets stirred into the dough. Toasted sesame oil, usually relegated to Asian cooking, rockets the sesame flavor of these cookies straight to the moon.
Black & White Cookies
A New York City deli classic, these soft, sponge-cake like cookies, with vanilla and chocolate fondant frosted halves, are as dramatic looking as the city that claims them. But these enormous cookies come with quite the dilemma — vanilla or chocolate icing first?
Blueberry Bars
Blissful blueberries make their way into a blue ribbon bar with a shortbread crust and lemony glaze. The best part about these bars (besides indulging in them) is that they’re pretty straightforward. The shortbread-like crust comes together quickly in a food processor and the filling is just a matter of stirring together the ingredients. While these blueberry bars may not exactly be health food, you can at least give yourself a little credit for eating this antioxidant rich berry, right?
Chocolate Profiteroles with Raspberry Sorbet
Profiteroles are miniature cream puffs made from a thick, sticky dough called pâte à choux [paht ah SHOO]. When baked, the dough steams and forms a hollow shell — perfect for holding a filling, like sorbet. Made with chocolate, these gems become a dramatic dessert to serve at a dinner party.
Dark Chocolate Molten Cakes
You might know these chocolate cakes as chocolate lava cakes or warm chocolate cakes, but regardless of their name, these seemingly modest cakes are big in flavor. Their big ta-da is that when you sink your spoon in, you’ll find molten, fudge-like centers.
Almond Linzer Cookies
Thought to be one of the oldest tart varieties, the Austrian linzertorte is known for its crumbly pastry flavored with cinnamon, lemon zest, and nuts, and for its bright jam filling. This more portable — but just as elegant — cookie version is made of two almond flavored cookies sandwiching a layer of sweet-tart raspberry-lemon jam.
Salted Nut Roll Bars
This bar covers the spectrum of tastes and textures: Crunchy, chewy, salty, sweet—they’re all in here.
S'mores Bars
S’mores are never out of season, and this s'mores bars recipe proves just that. With these baked bars you can get your s'mores fix without having to pitch a tent. Made with peanut butter cup candy bars, this treat is undeniably addictive.