Homemade Sno Balls

Homemade Sno Balls

Fashioned from chocolate cake, filled and frosted with meringue, and festooned in a feathery pink coconut boa, these are the real deal.

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Spiced Pork Meatballs with Guacamole by Tamasin Day-Lewis

Spiced Pork Meatballs with Guacamole

These spicy pork meatballs doused with guacamole to temper the heat are a great first course to share with friends. For a main course serve like a burger.

Sweet Ricotta Tart by Julia della Croce

Sweet Ricotta Tart

For this Italian treat, a sweet ricotta filing studded with chocolate and candied orange rind and flavored with citrus is nestled in a cookie-like crust.

Mascarpone Torte with Illy Espresso Sauce

Mascarpone Torte with Espresso Sauce

Mascarpone cheese, whipped cream, and thin slices of pound cake make up this Italian torte that sits on a puddle of espresso sauce.

Vanilla Bean Cupcakes by Michelle Gayer Nicholson

Vanilla Bean Cupcakes

These vanilla-bean cupcakes are a personal cake. They say ‘just for you.’ They’re mini cakes-to-go with its own wrapper.

Chocolate Mocha Cake with Irish Whiskey

Chocolate Mocha Cake with Irish Whiskey

Mmmm. Mocha chocolate cake slathered with an Irish whiskey-laced chocolate icing. A decadent, grown-up cake if ever there was one.

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  • 30 M
  • 1 H
  • 3
Black-Bottom Cupcakes by David Lebovitz

Black Bottom Cupcakes

These chocolate, deep-red devil’s food cupcakes are filled with an irresistible dollop of creamy cheesecake. Just what the kid in each of us craves.

Lamb Meatballs Recipe

Merguez Meatballs with Yogurt Sauce

Lamb meatballs seasoned with garlic, cilantro, wine, paprika, cumin, and ground coriander are broiled and served alongside a minty yogurt sauce.

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  • 30 M
  • 50 M
  • 3
Baba au Rhum by Ina Garten

Barefoot Contessa Baba au Rhum

This classic French dessert is an eggy cake that’s studded with currant, soaked with a vanilla-rum sauce and brushed with an apricot glaze.

Devil's Food Cake with Seven Minute Frosting

Devil’s Food Cake with Seven-Minute Icing and Coconut

Three layers of dark chocolate cake are filling and surrounded by a seven-minute frosting. The finish: sweetened coconut. This is a perfect birthday cake.

Warm Mocha Tart by Alice Medrich

Warm Mocha Tart

Here’s a flaky, buttery tart crust filled with thick, rich chocolate custard that’s has a hint of espresso It’s a dessert no one can resist.

Espresso Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Ganache by Emily Luchetti

Espresso Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Ganache and White Chocolate Frosting

Decadent is the only way to describe these cupcakes. The rich, mocha cake is filled with even richer chocolate cream, then topped with white chocolate frosting.

Red, White and Blue Tarts by Pamela Sheldon Johns

Red, White, and Blue Tarts

In these tarts is a mixture of cream and cream cheese dotted with fresh strawberries and blueberries and dusted with an avalanche of sweetened coconut.

Orange Chocolate Chunk Cake by Ina Garten

Barefoot Contessa Orange Chocolate Chunk Cake

The combination of tart, citrusy orange with sweet chocolate in this cake was a big hit at the Barefoot Contessa. And we’re sure it’ll be with you, too.

Williams-Sonoma Cake by Fran Gage

Chocolate-Orange Cupcakes

Nothing says loving from the oven more than luscious orange-infused chocolate cupcakes. They’re topped with an intense bittersweet chocolate frosting.

Prime Rib Roast

Prime Rib Roast with Orange-Glazed Onions

This stunning prime rib roast boasts an intricate interplay of sweet and sour and spice that’s marvelously medieval, not to mention deeply satisfying.

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  • 30 M
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Linzertorte by Fran Gage

Linzertorte

Nothing but the Austrian classic. The tart is filled with raspberry jam and almond-infused lattice crust is crisscrossed on top.

The Mensch Chef: Or Why Delicious Jewish Food Isn't an Oxymoron by Mitchell David

Lemon Pavlova Roll

Creamy, tart lemon curd is lightened with whipped cream, spread on a large crispy meringue, rolled up like a jelly roll, and served with fresh fruit.

The Glorious Foods of Greece by Diane Kochilas

Scallion and Feta Pie from Thessaly

For this Greek speciality, phyllo, or filo, pastry is filled with a savory creamy custard teeming with sauteed scallions, feta cheese, and ricotta cheese.

Lady Baltimore Cake by Jennifer Appel

Lady Baltimore Cake

A classic cake. Vanilla cake layers are slathered with a coconut-almond-oatmeal-cookie filling and frosted with meringue topped with cherries.

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