Epicurious

This cloud-like cake has all the joy of angel food—but it uses the yolks too.

All the joy of a freshly-fried funnel cake could be yours right now.

With a no-frills ingredient list and a cook time that comes in under an hour, this spiced coconut lentil soup is simple and unfailingly forgiving.

Roasting a halved lemon on the sheet pan along with artichoke hearts and leeks for this quick salmon dinner softens the pucker of the juice to use in a sauce.

This tender chocolate cake has a secret ingredient, and its name is Guinness.

Enriched bread dough gets shaped into a roll and baked with a crunchy, cookie topping scored to resemble a seashell, or concha.

This vanilla Bundt cake can be eaten out of hand as you head out the door or just as easily dressed up with whipped cream and fruit.

This easy Irish soda bread recipe gets a little tang from buttermilk and pops of concentrated sweetness from dried fruit.

This simple, low-alcohol summertime cocktail only needs two ingredients: fragrant Pimm’s liqueur and some ginger ale or ginger beer.

This poke cake is like having a cold glass of thandai for Holi—but in cake form!

With flavors that are bright and complex from a mixture of nuts, seeds, spices, and rose petals, thandai is the ideal drink for Holi celebrations.

This spice mix can be used to make thandai to drink for holi, or baked into an assortment of sweets.

This moist and flavorful pistachio cake is incredibly fragrant thanks to the addition of orange zest.

The Greenpoint cocktail is a rye manhattan, made with sweet vermouth and yellow Chartreuse.

A bold, herbaceous Irish whiskey manhattan.

The Jersey Lightning is so easy and so excellent. Whatever you call it, a manhattan simply made with apple brandy is a wonderful thing.

The Kensington cocktail is a riff on the perfect manhattan, made with bourbon, sweet and dry vermouth, and a spoonful of bitter orange marmalade.

Our favorite carrot cake is moist, full of shredded carrot and fragrant spices, and topped with an extra-tangy cream cheese frosting.

This fragrant gin sour with hints of almond dates back to 1934, a year after the movie King Kong was released.