Carrie S., Recipe Tester

You haven’t lived until you’ve had chicken karaage, which is Japanese-style chicken that’s marinated in soy and fried twice until crisp and oh so nice.

• 35 M
• 1 H, 40 M
• 10

Tender and delicate and buttery and spectacularly simple, just as classic shortbread cookies ought to be.

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 8

French. Foolproof. Froufrou. Fuss-free. Fenomenal. (Work with us.) Rarely does elegance come together with such ease (and alliteration) as this tart recipe.

• 35 M
• 2 H
• 21

No mere mash, this creamy potato purée owes its uber velvetiness to truly indecent amounts of butter and cream. And we mean that in the best possible way.

• 15 M
• 35 M
• 10

An easy, foolproof, ever so slightly sweet corn bread that comes together as quickly as it disappears. Just watch it.

• 20 M
• 45 M
• 28

Haute yet homey, this rustic Italian cake with its delicate crumb and pockets of jammy plum awesomeness will cause you to anticipate plum season like never, ever before.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 39

They look like fudgsicles. They taste like fudgesicles. Yet they’re made cocoa, coconut milk, and honey so you don’t even have to do that thing where you pretend that something’s healthy. Because it actually is.

• 10 M
• 2 H, 10 M
• 16

We beg to differ with the name of this fetching creation, as it’s far too easy to mistake “classic” for “blah.” Far more fitting, we think, is “best white cake.” Ever.

• 25 M
• 45 M
• 81

Though this recipe is technically chocolate whipped cream, it’s really more like chocolate mousse that you want to savor by the spoonful.

• Quick Glance
• 25 M
• 1 D
• 12

A classic spring coupling, this melding of rhubarb and strawberries takes the form of sweet tart pie filling burbling beneath ginger-inflected goodness.

• 30 M
• 3 H
• 17

This weeknight friendly, company worthy, simple but not terribly subtle pasta concoction has us swooning.

• 20 M
• 30 M
• 2

Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good baked thing we’ve had in recent memory.

• 30 M
• 45 M
• 23

Vietnamese caramel chicken is an easy weeknight dinner that tastes authentic as heck even if you don’t use a clay pot when you make it. Sorta like dessert for dinner.

• Quick Glance
• 25 M
• 1 H
• 2

Tender and crumbly like shortbread, yet subtly flavored and sweet like cookies, these beg the question, which are they?

• 20 M
• 45 M
• 34