Simple Cooking

Don’t mess with lush chocolate cake, fudgy frosting, and crunchy toasted pecans. (Who would want to?)

A classic lemon-blueberry bread is a thing of beauty. Plush lemon cake studded with jammy, perfectly suspended blueberries gets coated in a glossy, dripping glaze.

Studded with fresh strawberries and sprinkled with crunchy sugar, these tender-crumbed strawberry muffins are the best bake to wake up to.

This zesty pasta relies on a jar of peperoncini—including the brine—to do the heavy lifting.

There are no add-ins or pectin here, just the berries and sugar, which makes for a deeply fruity raspberry jam that tastes like summer.

The perfect condiment to serve with roast chicken, kebabs, pappadam, and more.

This easy orange marmalade recipe requires no obscure equipment and is bound to impress.

Summer is fleeting, but this easy recipe puts juicy peaches within arm’s reach all year long.

With fewer than 10 ingredients and bright flavor, there’s never a wrong time to make this crowd-pleasing dessert.

This simple classic gin martini recipe makes a beautiful, sophisticated cocktail that is as easy to stir together as it is to drink.

This simple and easy chocolate frosting is deeply chocolaty, fluffy, and swooshable.

Buttermilk makes the chocolate cupcakes moist and fluffy, and using oil instead of butter means they keep well.

With a handful of ingredients and easy cleanup, this brunch favorite only looks like you spent all morning at the stove.

Chicken piccata is a classic Italian dish made from pounded flat chicken breasts dredged in all-purpose flour, pan-fried, and topped with a lemony white wine and caper sauce.

A dash of Angostura bitters gives complexity to this classic orange juice and vodka cocktail.

Adjacent to a piña colada, this tropical cocktail gets a splash of citrusy blue liqueur.

The New York Sour is a classic cocktail that combines whiskey, lemon, and simple syrup and then gets a small pour of red wine floated ever so carefully on top.

If a coffee cake and a focaccia had a baby, it would look something like this Moravian sugar cake.

Creamy and comforting, this old-fashioned rice pudding can be made up to two days in advance and never disappoints.

This citrusy two-ingredient cocktail is nearly a century old but comes together in no time at all.