Baking

Avocado Peanut Butter Brownies

Avocados add creamy, nutrient-dense richness, taking the place of butter in these baked sweets.

Easter Bread

This traditional Greek yeast bread is flavored with bright orange zest, floral anise, and pine-like mastic.

I Have Cake Problems But This Cheap Plastic Turntable Isn't One of Them

I thought my cake hobby was satisfying before I bought this inexpensive tool. Turns out I had no idea how satisfying finishing a cake could actually be.

5 Reasons You Need a Cake Knife

Sure, you could use your chef's knife. But a cake knife can do the job so much better.

Apple and Calvados Tart

This is a dessert you'll make over and over in the fall when interesting apples fill the farmers’ market; but the Calvados sauce ensures it even makes out-of-season apples sing.

A kitchen torch makes easy work of melting sugar into the crackly topping for classic crème brûlée. And once you have one, you’ll come up with all kinds or ways to use it (like coffee crème brûlée, and coconut crème brûlée, and pistachio crème brûlée…).

Black Bottom Brownie Cookies

An overnight freeze solidifies classic brownie batter into something entirely different—a scoopable cookie dough that holds its shape when rolled and then transforms into soft, fudgy, cream cheese-filled cookies in the oven.

Matcha Almond Thumbprint Cookies

Gloss the tops of these egg- and dairy-free almond cookies with an earthy-sweet green tea frosting.

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Five Ways the Freezer Makes Cooking Easier

Sure, the freezer is a perfect preservation tool (where else will blueberries last for months?). But it's also the tool you need to get the thinnest slices of pork and the fastest, flakiest pies.

This Incredible Stuffed Cookie Only Works if You Freeze It

The secret cream cheese filling makes it worth the extra step.

How Freezing Your Butter Makes Every Pastry Better

Step aside, rough puff: our grated butter dough creates insanely flaky layers with none of the folding.

Cheesy Hand Pies

The secret to this super-flaky pastry is to grate frozen butter into the flour before incorporating it into the dough. Serve these hand pies warm, either as an appetizer or as dinner with a big green salad on the side.

Sweet Cinnamon Tamal

Baking a single large-format tamal in a foil-covered pan set in a roasting pan of hot water produces a similarly tender texture to the corn husk–wrapped variety. The result is a moist, barely sweet cake with pudding vibes.

Almond Syrup Cake

The combination of almond flour and self-rising flour gives this cake a tender, nutty crumb, while a drizzle of amaretto syrup keeps it irresistibly moist.

Earl Grey Doughnuts with Brown Butter Glaze

Glaze citrusy, baked doughnuts with a nutty brown butter icing and sprinkle with large crunchy granules of coffee-infused sugar for a sweet bite that hits all the marks.