Baking

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.

This celebratory French tart is baked for the Feast of the Epiphany in the first month of the new year. Here it’s made easy for home bakers with frozen puff pastry.

These shortbread-like cookies are tossed in a mixture of freeze-dried fruit pulverized with granulated sugar, coating the outsides in a fun blanket of fruity flavor.

These melt-in-your-mouth dinner rolls from Claire Saffitz are even more tender and pillowy than the classic Parker House rolls.

Buttery cookie dough and brandy-soaked dried fruit make these Italian fig cookies a holiday must-have.

Store-bought versions are rarely as good as you want them to be. Take matters into your own hands with this step-by-step recipe.

Remember that tin of Danish butter cookies you used to love? These are better.

Tender buttermilk biscuits are the perfect vehicle to sop up creamy, velvety sausage gravy.

As appealing as an old-fashioned pecan pie but super simple with a press-in crust, this luscious pistachio tart is a nut lover’s dream dessert.

This riff on pound cake subs out the plain ol’ butter for golden butter, or butter that is cooked just shy of brown butter.

Sweetened with a wonderfully fragrant orange blossom syrup, this cream of wheat cake is simple to prepare with just a few ingredients.

You’ve never had a cherry pie this good. With a flaky crust and fresh, tangy fruit, this is the homemade cherry pie of your dreams.

This chocolate mousse pie recipe feels special enough for a dinner party, and no one needs to know how simple it is to make.