valentine’s day

A savvy December time-saving must that lets you stash your creations so they look and taste as stunning as they did the moment you were done slaving over them.

The perfect technique and tricks for how to decorate with royal icing. So easy it’s perfect for beginners yet so helpful it’s useful even for experienced home bakers.

Boozy bananas are lavished with a cheater’s caramel sauce made with butter, brandy, and brown sugar in this outrageously simple riff on a Southern classic. No flambé required.

• 15 M
• 25 M
• 4

This lovely melding of cheese course and last course becomes even lovelier with a generous pour of port.

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 19

Stunning to behold. And actually remarkably simple to make. Allow us to introduce you to your latest dessert obsession.

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• 30 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 0

If we had to choose just one roast chicken to spend the rest of our lives with, this would be the one.

• 15 M
• 2 H
• 72

These small batch brownies make just enough batter to fill a loaf pan so you don’t have an entire baking pan hanging around all week tempting you. Who loves you?!

• 30 M
• 2 H
• 2

Cloudy with a chance of sprinkles. That’s our forecast for anyone who wishes to recreate the sugar cookies of their childhood.

• 25 M
• 3 H, 30 M
• 6

This recipe gets it right with just the right amount of (indulgent) richness. Our go-to weekend breakfast.

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• 20 M
• 30 M
• 0

Made with half whole wheat flour and half white flour, these pancakes are light and fluffy and improbably enticing for something that actually has redeeming nutritional qualities.

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• 30 M
• 30 M
• 0

No longer are you safe from temptation just because you summoned enough fortitude to skip the Nutella aisle at the store. Not safe at all.

• 20 M
• 30 M
• 156

Words sort of elude us when we attempt to describe just how stunning and scrumptious we consider this dish. Just…wow.

• 10 M
• 25 M
• 6

Milkiest? Chocolatiest? We think so. This creamy, dreamy little concoction is smoooooothness on a spoon.

• 15 M
• 45 M
• 21

So long, noodles that are buried beneath heavy cream sauces. This shrimp and leek pasta is made with a barely-there broth and the sweetness of leeks.

• 30 M
• 30 M
• 5