Epicurious

This modern eggnog recipe adds a vanilla bean and a smoky tea to the classic formula, evoking that yuletide feeling without drifting into Christmas spice.

Enjoy this velvety black sesame and red masa champurrado right off the stove as a dessert, or savor it with the crunchy company of a sugar-encrusted buñuelo.

Champurrado is an atole defined by chocolate; the classic Mexican hot drink is pure winter comfort.

Making your own king cake from scratch takes time and patience, but the rewards outweigh the challenges. 

This chana masala recipe has a clever trick: boiling the canned chickpeas with their liquid helps them mimic the texture you would get from soaking dried ones.

This flavor-packed nonalcoholic cocktail is delightfully bitter and tart.

Serve this crispy-skinned, exceptionally moist chicken like you would a Peking duck: with Chinese pancakes, sliced scallions, cucumber, and hoisin sauce.

This is a vegetable lasagna that cooks can enjoy, too, not only because it’s delicious, but because it’s simple and stress-free to prepare.

Here we give you chargrilled flavor, minus the grill; deeply browning the broccoli in a cast-iron skillet instead. 

This twist on the whiskey sour adds blueberries—plus a touch of amaro and funky rum.

Rely on the seasonings of porchetta—fennel seed, crushed red pepper, and garlic—to give more-manageable pork shoulder enormous flavor.

What’s the best part of a baked mac and cheese? The crispy edges, obviously. This sheet-pan recipe maximizes the crunch.

A daisy is essentially a sour in which the sweet stuff is a liqueur (instead of just sugar). This whiskey daisy recipe is pretty classic—and totally delicious.

The whiskey sour, a simple combination of whiskey, sugar, and fresh lemon juice is one of the most important developments in cocktails.

If you can get your hands on fresh wild mushrooms—and these days, it’s not hard—this wild mushroom risotto recipe is the best way to show them off.

This fall whiskey punch has all the flavors of a pumpkin spice latte, but it’s completely transparent.

A few tricks make this hearty weeknight black bean chili recipe great.

Making these chocolate pots de crème isn’t quite as easy as pouring cream into jars, but it’s not far off. If you love chocolate pudding, you’ll adore this dessert.

This classic frosting couldn’t be easier to make and is a must for finishing red velvet and carrot cakes (or a batch of cupcakes). Using vanilla bean paste gives it a pretty speckled look, but if you don’t have it on hand, pure vanilla extract will lend the same flavor.

This banana cream pie recipe reminds me of homemade banana pudding but with a kick.