desserts
Brown Butter Blondies with Sea Salt
As mentioned above, the original recipe, which is delicious, calls for melted butter n...
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Red Velvet Cupcakes
While I wish I could boast to my New York friends to having tasted a Philadelphia pastr...
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Flourless Chocolate Cake
Of all the symbolic foods on the Passover Seder table, matzoh is the most important. Ma...
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Easy, Festive (and Boozy!) Rum Balls Recipe
Rum balls are one of the easiest and most festive cookies to make and gift during the h...
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Grass-fed Steaks with Balsamic-Caper Sauce + Oven-Roasted Potatoes
My mother is worried. This isn’t a new sentiment, I can assure you. Worry, I’m afra...
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Best-Ever Fudgy (Shiny-Topped!) Homemade Brownies
Made with cocoa powder, not melted chocolate, this chewy, fudgy brownie recipe truly is...
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Beatty’s Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream
This chocolate cake, made with buttermilk and oil — no butter — and exclusively coc...
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The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing
This double chocolate cake is everything a chocolate cake should be: fudgy, moist, inte...
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60-Min Stovetop Chocolate Pot de Crème
Chocolate pot de crème is a heavenly dessert, and when it’s made stovetop, it’s in...
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Peach Blueberry Cake
This recipe has so much potential. And I so badly want to rave about it. I mean, I have...
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Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffles
I love this Lake Champlain Chocolates Fair Trade unsweetened cocoa powder, which is del...
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Crème Fraîche Ice Cream in Almond Butterscotch Cookie Cups
A few weekends ago a couple of dear friends came over for dinner. I served a disappoint...
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Classic Lemon Bars
Last week, for about point five seconds, I entertained the idea of making petits fours ...
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Sister Pie’s Salted Maple Pie
This salted maple pie is everything I want in a dessert: a sweet and salty custard in a...
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Ugly, Delicious (Perfect) Gingerbread Cookie Bars
You need this recipe in your repertoire. Soft and chewy and flavored with all of the wa...
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Classic Cream Cheese Cutout Cookies
Looking for a classic, foolproof cream cheese cutout cookie recipe? Look no further. Th...
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Lemon-Almond Snowball Cookies
Lemony with subtle almond notes, these melt-in-your-mouth snowball cookies are the perf...
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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
With crisp edges, soft and chewy centers, and plenty of texture throughout, these white...
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How to Parbake (and Blind Bake) Pie Crust + Foolproof Flaky Pie Dough
Below you will find guidance for both making pie dough and parbaking or blind baking it...
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Soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies
These sugar-crusted molasses cookies are soft and chewy thanks to brown sugar and molas...
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Easy American Flag Sheet Cake
Made in one bowl, this American flag sheet cake comes together in no time. Buttermilk a...
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Apple Cobbler with Hot Sugar Crust
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Bolzano Apple Cake
Scented with vanilla and custardy in texture, this simple apple cake comes together in ...
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Cooking With My Mama: Teddie’s Apple Cake
*I’ve used a mix of Fuji, York, and Cameo with success — use whatever you have on h...
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Moist Applesauce Bundt Cake
With its perfectly moist texture and soft crumb, this applesauce bundt cake is a seriou...
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Lemon-Ricotta Pound Cake
Flavored with lemon zest and freshly squeezed lemon juice, this incredibly tasty and mo...
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Chocolate-Espresso Icebox Cake
Yesterday I made a pie for the first time — gasp! — all summer. I went all out, too...
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One-Bowl, Orange-Ricotta Pound Cake
Just before Thanksgiving, I decided to make one of my favorite cakes, Giada De Laurenti...
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Rhubarb Buckle
This is an updated post from two older posts. If you are looking for the old recipe tha...
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Crisp and Chewy Gingersnap Cookies (One Bowl)
Changes I’ve made to the recipe include using melted butter as opposed to softened, o...
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Martha Stewart’s Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies (Kitchen Sink)
As with many a cookie, letting the portioned dough balls or shaped, unbaked cookies chi...
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Soft and Chewy Brown Sugar Cookies
From Sarah Kieffer’s 100 Cookies, these are a recent discovery. As with these chocola...
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Better Than Classic Pound Cake (One Bowl, Hand Mixed)
Immediately upon returning home, I made a recipe from the book, broccoli rabe with brok...
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Gluten- Free Lemon-Thyme Shortbread
The thyme or lemon-thyme is purely optional. It’s a very subtle flavor, one I really ...
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Flourless Chocolate-Almond Cake (Torta Caprese)
Containing no flour and leavened by whipped egg whites alone, this flourless chocolate-...
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Duncan Hines Yellow Cake Mix Baking Spree
Three-hundred sixty-four days a year, my mother suffers from make-it-from-scratch syndr...
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Pie Crust Cookies
If you’re looking for a pie dough recipe, this is my favorite: All-Purpose Pie Dough
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Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies
These chocolate sugar cookies are heaven: super chocolaty, perfectly sweet, and nicely ...
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Homemade Bourbon Pecan Pie (No Corn Syrup)
If you want to make a double batch of pie dough, follow this recipe. I’ve written the...
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One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
Buttercream from Barefoot Contessa At Home. I’ve simplified it here, omitting the egg...
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Peach-Frangipane Galette
This is my favorite dessert: peach-frangipane galette. Here I share my recipe for foolp...
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Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe halves beautifully, too. When I make a half batch, I use two teaspoons of ...
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Rhubarb Ice Cream + Rhubarb Jam
The trouble with homemade ice cream, in my experience at least, is its half-life: what ...
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Butterscotch Budino Ice Cream
This is what happened. My husband, who dislikes butterscotch, went out of town. I took ...
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Jean-Georges Chocolate Tart
Somehow a Valentine’s Day dinner did in fact materialize at our house last Tuesday ev...
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Ultimate Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Last week I found a stockpile of carrots in the vegetable bin of my fridge. Before sett...
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The Easiest French Apple Tart
This French apple tart recipe is simplicity at its best: buttery pastry dough + unpeele...
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Soft and Chewy (Contest-Winning) Peanut Butter Cookies
Jessie Sheehan, the author of The Vintage Baker, has a new book out, Snackable Bakes, f...
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Easy Lemon Blueberry Crisp
Several months ago I watched Dorie Greenspan make madeleines on the Martha Stewart Show...
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Chez Panisse Almond Torte
Author Lindsey Shere’s notes: Serve this torte with a cup of coffee or tea or a glass...
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Lemon-Semolina Almond Cake
The April issue of Bon Appetit featured mini lemon-semolina syrup cakes, a recipe from ...
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Gourmet’s Double Chocolate Cake, Revisited
The only trouble, if I can call it that, with baking cakes is having leftovers. A bite ...
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Brown Butter (+Bourbon) Snickerdoodles
Jesse Szewczyk, a food writer and cookbook author, has a new book out: Cookies: The New...
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Homemade Angel Food Cake
On Monday, Graham turned one, and the four of us celebrated the only way I know how, wi...
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How to Make Babka
To create lukewarm water: use ¼ cup boiling water and ¾ cup cold water, which will gi...
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Food Processor Rosemary Shortbread
A food processor makes this rosemary shortbread recipe effortless. It literally takes f...
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Classic Milk (or Dark) Chocolate Toffee
This recipe, submitted by my friend Laura Daley, won The Philadelphia Bulletin’s 2007...
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Basic Apple Pie
When my friend Anne announced she was getting married in my neck of the woods and asked...
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Vanilla Bean Sablés
Looking for an elegant, festive cookie to gift this holiday season? Look no further: Do...
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Brown Sugar Shortbread
Preferably one made with only three (or four) ingredients, whose assembly requires noth...
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Hippie Crispy Treats + A Fair Trade Giveaway
Aptly described in Food52 Baking as “what happens when your favorite childhood desser...
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TKO Ice Cream Sandwiches
The book won me over before I even opened it — a tin of three-day old pecan sandies d...
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A Few Ideas for Memorial Day
For best results, make this batter and store it in the fridge at least 24 hours prior t...
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Lemon-Ricotta Cheesecake
The virtues of cheesecake are as follows: it is incredibly easy to throw together; it c...
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Peach-Blueberry Cobbler
I had signed up to make a “super summery dessert” for a Fourth of July party. I con...
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Rhubarb Galette Recipe with Frangipane
On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough into a 12- or 13-inch round. Use ...
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Apple-Frangipane Galette
This is a longtime favorite recipe from David Lebovitz. It was published in Fine Cookin...
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Maple Cream Tart
Sometimes things just work out for the best. Just as I was about to declare Thanksgivin...
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Weekend Baking II: Open-Face Plum Cake
I’m really liking my Sunday morning routine. I get up a little before Ben, find somet...
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Salted Oatmeal Cookies & More
This cookie is all about the oats, without much spice to interfere with their earthy ta...
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Brioche Bread Pudding & Caramel Sauce
Using brioche bread, this bread pudding is perfectly sweet, custardy, and delicious. It...
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Stamped Christmas Cookies: Brown Butter Muscovado
When it comes to cookies, I shy away from anything that looks too complicated, anything...
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Mandel Bread with Marzipan & Sea Salt
A few weeks ago I received a surprise in the mail, a box of cookies with a note from so...
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Lemon-Coconut Date Balls
Last Thursday after yoga class, my friend Martha said she had something for me. As we w...
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Dark Chocolate, Coconut, Oatmeal Cookies
This recipe is in the current issue of Lucky Peach and for years had been Peter Meehan...
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Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Balls
If you have never made something like this, don’t let fear of difficulty or time dete...
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World Peace Cookies
Before heading out on our eight-day road trip to San Diego, I thought I’d share a rec...
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Peach (or Pluot) Cobbler with Hot Sugar Crust
Kristen Miglore’s Genius Desserts arrived at my door at the end of August, and about ...
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Peach Frangipane Tart
At the height of stone-fruit season, I love nothing more than making these free-form ta...
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Strawberry Sorbet in Almond Butterscotch Cookie Cups
Do you have friends who text you recipes that cause you to at once drop everything, hea...
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Bake Sale Winning-est Gooey Oat Bars
I meant to do many things this week, but instead I baked. I baked slow-rise refrigerato...
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