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The Secret to Level Cake Layers? Toothpicks

Build towering multilayer cakes with this stress-free technique.

Strudel di Funghi e Mascarpone (Mushroom Strudel)

A buttery lattice dough enrobes mushrooms, herbs, and speck.

Flourless Chocolate Cake

This flourless chocolate cake is rich and densely chocolaty. It’s just the kind of low-effort, high-reward recipe we love.

Easy Chocolate Frosting

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

Chocolate Cupcakes

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

Take It Easy Dutch Baby

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

Moravian Sugar Cake

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

Rhubarb Cake

This rhubarb cake recipe keeps things simple and scatters thinly sliced fresh rhubarb on top of the cake

Mayo Biscuits

Putting mayonnaise in the recipe gives you fluffy, craggy, flavorful biscuits that go from bowl to outstretched hand in about 20 minutes.

Sicilian Pizza

Sicilian pizza is an Italian-style pizza recipe identified by its thick, chewy, bready crust under a layer of toppings like tomato sauce.

Caramel Rolls

Caramel rolls are soft, plush, buttery, cinnamon-y, and drenched in caramel. Here’s my rendition of the Midwestern specialty.

Cowboy Cookies

Cowboy cookies are like oatmeal ones, but packed with hearty mix-ins like coconut, pecans, and chocolate.

Kringle

The official pastry of Wisconsin has Danish roots. Our homemade kringle recipe is filled with almond paste and cherry jam.

Egg Wash Your Way to Shinier Pie Crusts, Pastries, and More

Give any dough a little razzle-dazzle with this guide to egg washes.

Peanut Butter and Ginger Cookies (PB&Gs)

Good things happen when you combine a childhood classic with chewy crystallized ginger.

Derby Pie Is Pecan Pie for Chocolate Lovers

This trademarked chocolate chip pecan pie has been the subject of countless lawsuits, but you can still make an ode to it at home.

Kentucky Bourbon Pie

This nut pie recipe with chocolate chips and bourbon keeps things simple and honors the hallmarks of a classic Derby pie.

Super Easy Vanilla Cupcakes

A swoosh of buttercream is all you need to finish off this easy vanilla cupcake recipe.

10 Baking and Dessert Books We’re Excited for This Spring

Here’s what’s new—and coming soon—in cookbooks for bakers and lovers of all things sweet.
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