Cinnamon
Cinnamon Swirl Vanilla Ice Cream Bars
To help prevent the ice cream bars from melting while you are cutting and dipping them, choose a vanilla ice cream that freezes solid. How can you tell? Squeeze the pint in the freezer case to test which brand feels hardest.
Mulled Apple Cider With Orange and Ginger
Spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, this cozy drink is a festive jumpstart to the quickly-approaching holiday season.
Spicy Lamb Pizza With Parsley–Red Onion Salad
Our homage to lahmacun, the Middle Eastern flatbread.
Jerk Spice–Rubbed Chicken Legs
This simplified version of the traditional Jamaican dish may not be authentic, but it will not disappoint.
Braised Birria
Though Birrieria Zaragoza uses goat, this deeply spiced braise is equally good with lamb.
French Spiced Bread
This classic French spiced bread is great for sweet toast in the morning, or it can be sliced thinly and served with pâté for a pretty party appetizer.
The Best Thumbprint Cookies of All Time
These ones really left a (thumbprint-shaped) mark on us.
Maple-Cinnamon Toast With Citrus and Crème Fraîche
These thick slices of toast, slathered with cinnamon butter and topped with fruit, might just become your new favorite weekend morning indulgence.
How To Make Pumpkin Pie With a Snickerdoodle Crust
Yes, cookie dough makes great pie crust.
Chai Doughnuts with Spiced Sugar
The warm, sweet spices of masala chai are magic in these homemade doughnuts.
6 Things You Can Do With Frozen Pizza Dough (Besides, You Know, Pizza)
It's sort of ironic how something can come out of your freezer so solid and cold, and just a little bit later be so soft and warm.
Spice Up Your Life
So many spices, so few weeknight dinners.
5 Things Other Than Cinnamon to Stuff Inside Your Cinnamon Rolls
Chocolate croissant, meet your match.
Spiced Honey Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Oh, wait: Did we mention the prettiest cake in the display case also happens to be gluten-free? Eat at will!
Fette Sau Dry Rub
We use this rub on just about everything that we smoke at the restaurant, but you needn't follow the recipe exactly. Feel free to improvise on the ingredients and amounts, reducing the sugar for a less-sweet "bark" (crust), increasing the cayenne for a spicier one, and so on.
Peaches and Crema Paleta Pops
The classic combination of peaches and cream takes a trip south of the border in these cinnamon-spiked ice pops.
Do you have these eight essential spices?
Maybe you're just starting to cook. Or maybe you've been cooking too long. Either way, if your spice collection needs help, it needs the Epi Essential Eight.
Blueberry Streusel Cake
We doubt you'll have any leftovers from this homey blueberry cake crowned by a buttery, brown-sugar-sweetened streusel topping, but if you do, it will make a fabulous companion to your morning coffee.
S'mores Cookies
Upgrade your campfire treats with soft honey-cinnamon cookies slicked with melted chocolate and two toasted, charred marshmallows.