Baking

The freshest Italian butter cookies are the ones you bake at home. This butter cookie recipe gives you delicate almond-scented cookies in your favorite design.

Llike a leveled-up pastry cream enriched with whipped butter, German buttercream is the ideal filling for cakes and pastries.

This Louisiana Crunch Cake recipe uses shredded coconut and granulated sugar to obtain its crunchy exterior—a tasty contrast to the pound-cake-like interior. 

This easy, elegant lemon cake takes 10 minutes to pull together and can be made a day in advance.

This tres leches cake recipe gets its tenderness from the addition of a fourth type of milk and a kick from a shot of rum.

These triangular cookies—traditionally stuffed with poppy seed filling, but often with jam or jelly—are a signature of Purim.

Pick any sort of coffee or tea to turn this moreish cookie into a caffeinated treat fit for breakfast or dessert.

This decorated loaf cake delivers all of the drama and trappings of a traditional bûche de Noël with only a fraction of the work.

Everyone needs an irresistibly buttery back-pocket blondie recipe in their toolbox. This is ours. 

This almond biscotti recipe gets oomph from a splash of brandy.

Think of this flexible biscotti recipe as a formula for whatever flavor of crunchy cookie you’re craving.

Deep, rich dark chocolate, milky white chocolate, and sharp peppermint come together in a gift-worthy brownie.

A gâteau quatre-quarts, or four-fourths, traditionally called for a pound each of butter, flour, sugar and eggs. This version of the cake adds vanilla and fragrant citrus extract.