Pastries

Tangzhong is the secret to the super-soft, pillowy dough that encases a brown butter–cinnamon sugar filling and gets topped with a tart cream cheese frosting.

Be prepared to watch these fly off the plate. There’s a reason they’re a cocktail party staple. 

Stacking and flattening the dough creates lots and lots of flaky layers that beg to be pulled apart and slathered with softened butter. 

Enjoy the best of both worlds with this savory mash-up that plays well as a side on the holiday table—or as the star that it is.

Get major bang for your buck with these juicy pork-and-zucchini-filled pastries. Cheap, easy, satisfying, they’re not just finger foods—they’re the main event. 

These plush bakery-style orange muffins are inspired by a much-loved version from Costco. We cut the dried fruit so that the orange flavor really shines.

Biscuits and gravy, reimagined by L.A.’s Yangban Society to feature lofty buttermilk biscuits with rich curry gravy made with curry roux blocks (kare).

This blueberry pie recipe with its flaky lattice crust tastes just like summer, courtesy of 8 cups of fruit—and it might even score you a date.

Here’s a berry-studded cake so simple you can make it on vacation but so good you’ll want to make it even when you’re not.

This is the wholesome fruit- and veggie-packed muffin you’ll be thankful to have around on busy mornings when you need breakfast to go.

As good with a cocktail as they are with tea or coffee, these mostly savory scones are perfect for a hair-of-the-dog brunch when the party continues into the next day.

Like the best possible Morning Glory muffins but with grated butternut squash instead of carrot.

We gave biscuits the Thanksgiving treatment by packing these with classic stuffing flavors like sage, rosemary, fennel seed, and scallion.

The shape of pastry tip you use for this churros recipe is very important. If the tip isn’t closed, or rounded off, the churros may break as you’re frying them (we used size 845 tips).

Freeze-dried strawberries are our new baking obsession. You’ll understand why once you’ve made these strawberry doughnut muffins.

This portable pocket of cheesy goodness tastes like your favorite pizza toppings found a puff pastry home.

Chewy, flaky sesame halva takes these sensational strawberry shortcakes out of the stratosphere.

These light and eggy cheese puffs are channeling your favorite bar snack.

This East African snack is fluffy, crispy, and mildly sweet—like the best parts of French beignets and American old-fashioned doughnuts combined into one bite.

Scones full of the textures and flavors of a granola bar—a hint of sweetness comes from copious dried fruit and a sprinkle of raw sugar.