Baking
Egg Wash Your Way to Shinier Pie Crusts, Pastries, and More
Give any dough a little razzle-dazzle with this guide to egg washes.
By Zoe Denenberg and Katherine Sacks
Peanut Butter and Ginger Cookies (PB&Gs)
Good things happen when you combine a childhood classic with chewy crystallized ginger.
By Lidey Heuck
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.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Kentucky Bourbon Pie
This nut pie recipe with chocolate chips and bourbon keeps things simple and honors the hallmarks of a classic Derby pie.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Super Easy Vanilla Cupcakes
A swoosh of buttercream is all you need to finish off this easy vanilla cupcake recipe.
By Amy Sedaris
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.
By Maggie Hoffman
Bakeries Sell Millions of These Cookies. How Many Are Actually Homemade?
These iconic cookies are omnipresent at Italian-American bakeries along the East Coast, but not all are made from scratch.
By Zoe Denenberg
Italian Butter Cookies
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.
By Zoe Denenberg
German Buttercream (Crème Mousseline)
Llike a leveled-up pastry cream enriched with whipped butter, German buttercream is the ideal filling for cakes and pastries.
By Sarah Kieffer
Louisiana Crunch Cake
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.
By Vallery Lomas
Linzer Cookies
By The Gourmet Test Kitchen
Anytime Lemon Cake
This easy, elegant lemon cake takes 10 minutes to pull together and can be made a day in advance.
By Andrea Albin
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39 Valentine’s Day Cookies to Spread the Love Far and Wide
Skip the Conversation Hearts and bake a batch of Valentine’s cookies.
By Zoe Denenberg
Tres Leches Cake
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.
By Erik Zeda
Hamantaschen
These triangular cookies—traditionally stuffed with poppy seed filling, but often with jam or jelly—are a signature of Purim.
By Zoe Denenberg
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The 27 Most Popular Dessert Recipes of 2023
Our readers were all about the Philly fluff cake and French silk pie this year.
By Anikah Shaokat
Caffeinate Your Cookies With Any Coffee or Tea
Coffee grounds, tea leaves, matcha powder? The choice is yours.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Stack Your Way to Christmas Glory With This No-Roll Bûche de Noël
Half the effort of a classic bûche, but all the festive vibes.
By Alexis deBoschnek
Any Tea or Coffee Shortbread Cookies
Pick any sort of coffee or tea to turn this moreish cookie into a caffeinated treat fit for breakfast or dessert.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Loaf de Noël
This decorated loaf cake delivers all of the drama and trappings of a traditional bûche de Noël with only a fraction of the work.
By Alexis deBoschnek