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Test-kitchen recipes built around our ingredients - from jet-black brownies to glossy royal icing. Filter by category or diet.

Apple lattice pie

 

Best Apple Dessert Recipes for Fall

When the apples come in, this is what to bake. We rounded up the pies, galettes, crisps, bars, cakes, and muffins worth the bushel - each one better with a sugar-crusted top that holds its crunch. ...

Dark chocolate brownies

 

Best Brownie Recipes

Fudgy, dark, and unapologetically chocolate. We pulled the brownie recipes worth making twice - cocoa-powder classics with crackly tops, jet-dark black cocoa batches, espresso-deepened squares, loa...

Quick Bread recipes

 

The Best Quick Bread Recipes

No yeast, no proofing, no waiting - just one bowl, one pan, and a loaf worth slicing warm. We rounded up the best quick breads: sweet and fruity, savory and cheesy, hearty whole-grain, and a few fo...

Meringue Powder recipes

 

Things to Make With Meringue Powder

You bought the pouch for one recipe - here's everything else it does. Meringue powder is the shortcut to royal icing that dries hard, meringues that don't weep, buttercream that survives a warm roo...

Mocha Dessert recipes

 

The Best Mocha Dessert Recipes

Coffee and chocolate together - the pairing that makes chocolate taste more like itself. We rounded up the best mocha desserts: rich cakes and brownies, chewy cookies, silky mousse, and frostings w...

Sugar-finished cookies

 

White Sparkling Sugar Recipes

Regular sugar melts into the batter and vanishes. Ours doesn't. Our extra-coarse White Sparkling Sugar holds its shine and crunch straight through the oven, so cookies, muffins, scones, and sweet b...

Sheet Cake recipes

 

The Best Sheet Cake Recipes

The one-pan cake that feeds a crowd - no layers, no fuss, all payoff. We rounded up the sheet cakes worth baking: fudgy Texas, tender vanilla, bright citrus, cozy spiced, and a few dressed up for t...

Rustic peach galette

 

Peach Desserts

When peaches are at their best, so is dessert. We rounded up the cobblers, crisps, galettes, cakes, bars, and no-bake treats worth the ripe fruit - each one better with a crackly, sparkly sugar fin...

Summer cookies

 

Summer Cookie Recipes: 30 to Bake All Season

30 of the best summer cookie recipes across no-bake and icebox, ice cream sandwiches, bright citrus, fresh berry, airy meringues, and picnic-proof classics - checked to make sure each one delivers.