Weekend Projects®

This is where things get fun. These are recipes that take a day or two to make, whether because of resting or marinating requirements, a few more steps, or just plain ole extra time because, well, they just taste better that way. These are great recipes to make with the family and to introduce kids into the kitchen.

A three-layer hummingbird cake with a cake server beside it.

Hummingbird Cake

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This Southern classic is a charming stack of pineapple, coconut, bananas, and pecans aplenty.

  • 25 M
  • 1 H
  • 20
A pot roast with potatoes and vegetables on a decorative platter with a serving fork on the platter and a napkin on the side.

Easy Pot Roast, Potatoes, and Vegetables

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This classic, hearty, homey dish—just like something your grandma used to make—is the perfect one-pot meat and potatoes meal. Includes oven as well as slow cooker instructions.

  • 30 M
  • 4 H
  • 21
A salted caramel and pretzel cookie topped with flaked sea salt and pieces of pretzel.

Salted Caramel and Pretzel Cookies

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Sweetly salty. Crunchy tender. Unexpectedly familiar. Simply complex. We confess, we’re dumbstruck by these little lovelies.

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  • 45 M
  • 2 H
  • 2
Six homemade English muffins in tins on a baking sheet and four empty tins.

English Muffins

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Far easier to make than you might imagine. And unspeakably more flavorful than anything you can find that’s store-bought.

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  • 30 M
  • 3 H, 30 M
  • 6
Two loaves of Hungarian coffee cake, one partially sliced to show swirled pattern inside.

Hungarian Coffee Cake

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“Moist and rich and not too sweet and airy.” “Delicious, indulgent, adult- and kid-pleasing.” “Perfect.” That’s what folks are saying about this.

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  • 45 M
  • 4 H
  • 4
An apple rose tart, shaped to look like a rose with a scoop of ice cream beside it on a white plate.

Apple Rose Tarts

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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
A metal container filled with pumpkin ice cream and a metal ice cream scoop resting inside.

Pumpkin Ice Cream

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The pumpkin spice everything craze has left some of us less than enthusiastic about pumpkin spice anything. Until this.

  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 4
Big fat juicy burger with caramelized onions, melted cheese, and a toasted hard roll

Best Burger

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Brisket, short ribs, and chuck. When melded in just the right proportions, as here, they turn out the most luxe made-from-scratch burger we’ve ever experienced.

  • 50 M
  • 1 H
  • 17
A white bowl of French lentil soup, topped with ribbons of chard.

French Lentil Soup

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Hearty, healthy, comforting as heck, and it comes together in a single pot and makes ample leftovers to see you through the rest of the week.

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  • 40 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 0
A cast-iron skillet with four cooked chicken apple sausages inside.

Chicken Apple Sausage

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Seriously, it’s so easy to make your own sausage. Insanely easy. And holy heck, does it taste phenomenal. No meat grinder required.

  • 25 M
  • 45 M
  • 17
A loaf of ciabatta, sliced, and filled with large air holes

Ciabatta

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Every once in a while, along comes a loaf of bread that’s so rustic, so memorable, it ruins every other bread experience. Here’s that loaf.

  • 30 M
  • 4 H, 20 M
  • 303
A wire basket on a wood cutting board containing several types of cheese, including smoked cheddar cheese

Smoked Cheddar Cheese

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Remember those wee rounds of shrink-wrapped smoked Cheddar from holidays past? This rendition is unspeakably better.

  • 5 M
  • 4 H
  • 18
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