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This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

The brownie is really more like a flourless chocolate cake. It puffs as it bakes, and falls and cracks as it cools.

Active time: 1 hr Start to finish: 4 hr (includes cooling)

For soft and chewy cookies, bake these just a couple of minutes less than the recipe directs.

These cookies are rolled in confectioners' sugar while warm, which gives them a thin buttery frosting.

Active time: 40 min Start to finish: 5 1/4 hr

"I literally didn't know how to boil an egg until I was in my 20s — when I tried to impress a guy by making dinner for him," writes Sally Siegel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "I didn't have much success with the dinner or the guy, but I regrouped and put together a repertoire of fairly elegant dishes I felt confident making. Over the years, my cooking style has become more casual; I make dishes that are not too demanding, but still special for company."

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

You would never guess that this rich, moist and delicious cake is lighter than its high-fat counterpart.

This recipe calls for sand sugar or pearl sugar (both sometimes known as coarse or crystal sugar), both of which have larger grains than granulated sugar and are used for decorating baked goods. Sand sugar has slightly smaller and shinier grains than pearl sugar.