10 Pound Cake Recipes

Because sometimes you want cake that's dense as can be with richness, butteriness, and as much flavor per square inch as feasible. These are exactly that.

Spicy Pepita Brittle

When we think of brittle, we tend to think of a wallflower-like candy. This snappy little number proves that we couldn't be more wrong.

25 mins

Hand Pies

Sweet or savory. Fruit or chocolate. Large or small. These lovely little hand pies can be customized any which way to calm your craving. Easy as can be, too.

1 hr 15 mins

Our Best Oatmeal Cookies

These oatmeal cookies are like the baking version of those Choose Your Own Adventure books, which means your cookies end up exactly the way you like them.

1 hr

Pozole Verde

Translation? A spectacularly satisfying and soupy stewy dish made with green chiles and chicken that takes just an hour (!) yet tastes authentic as heck.

1 hr

Melon and Avocado Salad

A combination of taste and textures that seems unconventional yet tastes so intuitive you'll wonder why you haven't tried it before.

25 mins

Mashed Kabocha Squash

Wait until you give Bryant Terry's squash a try. Creamy and packed with flavor, this vegan recipe is also healthy as heck without tasting like it.

1 hr 15 mins

20 Superlatively Chocolatey Brownie Recipes

Whether your need is Super Bowl or the love of your life or just a super intense craving on a random weeknight, you'll find your fix in these recipes. They don't disappoint.

10 Gratin Recipes

Perhaps the most pleasing vegetable delivery system there is come cold weather. And equally adept at doing the job on a random weeknight as they are come Christmas dinner.

Homemade KIND Bars

Nuts. Seeds. Dried fruits. The only thing missing is the fancy cellphone wrapping and the steep price tag. (Did we mention they're gluten-free?)

35 mins

Superfood Breakfast Cookies

The best part of waking up are these super-charged breakfast cookies loaded with oats, bananas, berries, and chocolate chips.

38 mins

Homemade Larabars

We got nothing against the Larabars we've been noshing for years. Save for the crazy price tag. Here's a less expensive, more customizable alternative.

45 mins

Portuguese Bean Soup

A leisurely way to make a super comforting and filling soup that makes rainy days more bearable. And the leftovers are even better.

5 hrs 30 mins

Palmiers

These flaky French pastries are dainty, diminutive, and irresistible as can be (typed while licking the sugar from our fingers).

50 mins

Butternut Squash Soup

A most gratifying use for a gangly gourd, this silken butternut squash soup all but defines autumn.

3 hrs

Pine Nut Brittle

Crunchy, sweet, salty, buttery, and nutty. It comes together in 30 minutes, making it practical to toss together batch after batch for gifts if you get carried away with sampling.

1 hr 30 mins

Vanilla Syrup

You’re going to want to drizzle, douse, and dribble this fragrant homemade vanilla syrup over and into and onto just about everything.

40 mins

6 Quick Bread Recipes

Banana. Pear. Cranberry. Bourbon. (Yes, bourbon.) When you need something simple yet homey, quick yet comforting, these recipes are your easy answer.

Eggnog Pie

Essentially a slightly tipsy cheesecake, this bourbon-enhanced eggnog pie is something we're classifying as "holiday desserts for parties where people like to party."

1 hr 15 mins

Sweet Pastry Dough

This all-butter, no-fuss pastry crust comes together with ease and flakiness thanks to a little well-worded hand-holding that caters to pastry-making virgins.

15 mins