desserts

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

This is the yellow cake of dreams. Perfect for celebrating birthdays, graduations, or simply getting through a tough ...

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Strawberry Scones

These strawberry scones check all the boxes. Made with juicy sweet strawberries, they’re tender and rustic with gol...

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Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

As mentioned up above, I like to use a natural peanut butter for these cookies, but use whatever you have. And be min...

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Grapefruit Sorbet

Be sure to use freshly squeezed juice here. I like to use red ruby grapefruit, and if you have a blood orange or two,...

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Cheesecake Bars

These creamy, decadent cheesecake bars feature a citrus swirled top, vanilla cream cheese filling, and shortbread coo...

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Best Chocolate Cookies

This is the best chocolate cookie I bake. And I don’t say that lightly. It’s a crackle-edged puddle of chocolate ...

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Homemade Coconut Cream Pie

There are a couple details that take this coconut cream pie to the next level. Like many versions, it is made with a ...

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Grapefruit Curd with Ginger

This vibrant grapefruit curd is perfect slathered on scones, waffles, and shortbread. A jolt of freshly pressed ginge...

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Itsy Bitsy Chocolate Chip Cookies

The perfect bite-sized chocolate chip cookie. Tiny, thin, golden, crisp, a bit nutty with plenty of shaved chocolate.

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Cranberry Cake

A charming, festive buttermilk cranberry cake topped with a flood of vanilla-flecked buttermilk icing.

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Sparkling Cranberries

Around the holidays these pretty, sugared, sparkling cranberries are perfect. Tart and sweet, they glint and wink in ...

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Chocolate Energy Bites

Good-quality dark chocolate packed with lots of chopped nuts, seeds, and dried fruit make these a favorite nutritious...

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Sicilian Pistachio Cookies (Biscotti al Pistacchio)

Charming bite-sized, powder-coated Sicilian pistachio cookies, biscotti al pistacchio, inspired by a visit to Mona Ta...

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Coconut Chocolate Pudding

A deeply dark and impossibly decadent coconut chocolate pudding. Creamy coconut milk base infused with a whisper of w...

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Chocolate Bundt Cake

Slathered with chocolate buttermilk icing, this beautifully moist chocolate bundt cake is made with a blend of whole ...

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Oatmeal Muffins

A rich, crumble-topped oatmeal muffin recipe made with an oatmeal and yogurt base. Golden-topped, wholesome, and a fa...

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Shaker Apple Pie

The defining detail of this traditional Shaker apple pie is the use of rose water in the filling. Sliced apples, brow...

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Shaker Lemon Pie

The defining detail of this lemon Shaker pie is the use of whole lemons for the filling. Thin slices of lemon includi...

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All-Butter Flaky Pie Crust

Most pages about pie crusts are going to point you to their “best ever” pie crust, but I’m taking a slightly di...

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A couple things - make the vanilla first it typically takes longer to churn than the fruit sorbet

A couple things - make the vanilla first, it typically takes longer to churn than the fruit sorbet. Also, I call for ...

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Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mesquite flour adds a wonderful accent to these oat and walnut studded chocolate chip cookies. If you've never baked ...

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Candied Walnuts

Caramelized and toasted, these crunchy candied walnuts use brown sugar and spices to deliver the perfect snack or top...

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Smoked Chocolate Mousse

A deep, concentrated dark chocolate mousse made with gently smoked chocolate. I've used my stovetop smoker for many t...

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Classic Shortbread Cookies

Buttery, golden, classic shortbread cookies. So simple, and the best cookies on any cookie plate.

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Gingerbread Cookies

Everything you want in a classic gingerbread cookie. These are fragrant, spice-flecked, and delicious.

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Whole Bean Vanilla Cookies

Snappy, small, fragrant, vanilla wafer cookies made with a whole vanilla pod. The entire thing!

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Swedish Rye Cookies

Powder-kissed and pretty, these Swedish Rye cookies are perfect for anyone after a not-too-sweet, shortbread-style bu...

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Middle Eastern Millionaire’s Shortbread

This is the Middle Eastern Millionaire's Shortbread from Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh's Sweet. It's incredible for ...

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Rosemary Olive Oil Cake

Kim Boyce's Rosemary Olive Oil cake is incredibly moist, golden-crumbed, flecked with rosemary, and dotted throughout...

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Walnut Nutmeg Butter Cake

An easy little butter cake baked in a single pan. This is a sugar-dusted, walnut-studded version, perfumed with nutme...

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Frosty Lime Sherbet

The trick I use with lime sherbet is to use a bit of orange and lemon alongside fresh lime juice. It takes a bit of t...

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Coconut Rum Cake

A special rum cake baked with equal parts coconut, sugar, and flour, and lots of rum. Imagine a toasted coconut macar...

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Heidi’s Coffee Cake Recipe

A stunner of a coffee cake with extra thick streusel topping and blueberries bursting into the tender crumb in dramat...

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Tapioca Pudding

The ultimate tapioca - a creamy, classic, delicious, vanilla-spiked tapioca pudding recipe. Guided by the tapioca ent...

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Black Sticky Gingerbread Cake

This black sticky gingerbread cake recipe makes an outrageously dark, dense, flavorful and delicious cake. The burnt-...

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Summer Berry Crisp

A favorite summer berry crisp - ripe berries cook into a thick, jammy, wine-spiked fruit sludge beneath a crispy, oat...

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Fresh Mint Chip Frozen Yogurt

A luscious fresh mint chip frozen yogurt recipe from the Sprouted Kitchen cookbook.

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Chocolate Fudge & Tahini Cake

A 100% rye flour version of Benjamina Ebuehi’s Chocolate Fudge & Tahini Cake from The New Way To Cake. It's everyth...

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Chocolate Dipped Biscotti

Sesame studded and heavily scented with crushed fennel seeds and chamomile, these chocolate dipped biscotti punctuate...

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Chocolate Almond Swirl Cake

A fun swirl cake made with a beautiful yellow olive oil cake paired with classic chocolate buttercream frosting that ...

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Turkish Coffee Chocolate Brownies

These brownies are dense and fudgy, deep-dish, and decadent with a high fat (butter & chocolate) to flour ratio. Espr...

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Super Swiss Meringues

Let’s make beautiful, billowy Swiss meringue! You can shape it into all sorts of shapes and swooshes, or punctuate ...

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Rosewater Shortbread Cookies

As far as dried rose petals go, I typically dry my own from unsprayed roses I buy at the farmers market. I've seen th...

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One Bowl Banana Bread

The best, most simple, one-bowl banana bread I know. Perfect if you're craving classic banana bread flavor and textur...

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Saffron Vanilla Snickerdoodles

So good! Saffron Vanilla Snickerdoodles with a slight buckle in the middle, kiss of saffron, and thin golden crust wi...

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Classic Berry Swirl Ice Cream

If you love a classic berry swirl ice cream, this is your recipe. Intense, bright strawberry or raspberry sorbet thre...

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Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Recipe

A simple spring crumble - rhubarb, strawberry, and a splash of port wine with a buttery black pepper, pine nut and oa...

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Roasted Strawberries

A delicious argument for roasting strawberries - juices from the roasting berries combine with maple syrup, port adds...

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Buttermilk Berry Muffins Recipe

Beautiful buttermilk muffins - berry-streaked with sugar-sparkled tops, big flavor, and buttermilk-tender texture.

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Healthful Double Chocolate Cookies

A nut-free (school-friendly), double chocolate version of one of the most popular cookies on my site. Made with a ban...

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Two-ingredient Candied Citrus Lolipops

You HAVE to try these. Two-ingredient magic. Plump, juicy, citrus segments coated in thin, crunchy, sugar shells.

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Triple Ginger Cookies

These are the ginger cookies you want to make. A special triple ginger cookie made with three kinds of ginger and a h...

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Fluffy Vanilla Nougat Recipe

How to make beautiful, billowy vanilla nougat to which you can add all kinds of nuts, seeds, and dried fruit.

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Super Tasty, Toasted Almond Sable Cookies

Toasty, nutty sable cookies made with whole wheat flour, sliced almonds, currents and salted butter. And a peek at so...

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Simple Red Fruit Salad

Red fruit salad, arguably better than old-school fruit salad. Made with plump strawberries, sweet cherries, lemon zes...

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Anzac Cookies Recipe

Anzacs are made from oats, coconut, and flour coming together in a butter-kissed dough. You end up with a hearty, stu...

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Quinoa Hemp Snack Balls

You want these in your purse, your desk drawer, and your freezer. A quick way to get quinoa, hemp seeds, chia, and co...

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Blackberry Saffron Honey Recipe

Taking saffron infused honey to the next level by adding seasonal blackberries. It's simple, and an ideal topping for...

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