Desserts

“Best brownies” is a pretty bold assertion. Yet these chewy fudge brownies from David Lebovitz merit it.

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• 30 M
• 165

These delectable kumquats are simmered in sweetness until tender and just like candy. And we can’t get enough of ’em.

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• 50 M
• 4

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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• 40 M
• 1 H
• 45

Who knew Katharine Hepburn was as agile at baking as acting? These brownies make us think maybe she missed her true calling.

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• 1 H
• 35

The fresh flavors of lemon and blueberry are at their best here in Flo Braker’s easily assembled, elegant tart.

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• 2 H
• 2

Layers of vanilla cake take turns with oodles of coconut filling and the whole shebang is slathered with fluffy white icing. Uh, yes please!

• 45 M
• 1 H, 15 M
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These uncannily crisp, seemingly shortbreadish cookies from San Francisco’s Miette are–and we mean this–unlike any you’ve ever encountered.

• 20 M
• 50 M
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Yup. Vegan chocolate cake. If you tasted it without knowing, all you’d experience is chocolate through and through. No one will ever know it’s vegan…unless you tell them.

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• 1 H, 30 M
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Not your ordinary molasses spice cookies, these owe their nice hit of savory to a hit of black pepper. Once you’ve tried these, you may never go back.

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• 35 M
• 1 H, 45 M
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We don’t know Italian, but we’re pretty certain this tart, with its molten filling and brownie crust, translates to “Damn good!”

• 40 M
• 3 H, 20 M
• 15

A drinkable dessert composed of, quite simply, bitter grapefruit segments soused with sweet sparkling wine. Cin cin!

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• 10 M
• 4

This flour-free and fancy-free Pavlova knows no religious affiliations, creating a stunning last course for Easter as well as Passover.

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• 25 M
• 1 H, 20 M
• 3

Know how sometimes you taste something and can’t help but sigh with content? This cake does that to us each and every darn time.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 25

Not just the stuff of sweet memories, angel food cake is still in fashion—and still fashionably simple to whip up. Truly heaven sent.

• 45 M
• 1 H, 35 M
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