Holly Z., Recipe Tester

We explain how to make and use chocolate for piping and drizzling and decorating with letters and squiggles on cakes and cookies and whatever you fancy.

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• 10 M
• 30 M
• 0

We’ve clamored for dessert for breakfast many a time, but breakfast for dessert? With this inspired makeover, you betcha.

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• 15 M
• 45 M
• 14

Psychedelic purple cauliflower and sweet potatoes lend oohs and aahs to these easy yet elegant stuffed bacon-y chicken breasts.

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• 30 M
• 1 H
• 4

Made from just three ingredients, this classic flan is ridiculously easy to toss together. A tangy, rich, creamy coda to a luxe dinner or a simple brunch.

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• 10 M
• 9 H
• 0

How do you define a true New York-style cheesecake? A sweet graham cracker crust cushioning a smooth, rich, moan-inducing filling with a lemony lilt. In other words, this recipe.

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• 20 M
• 2 H
• 22

Chewy, buttery, and teeming with toffee flavor, these are a sophisticated take on those made-from-a-box blondies you scarfed down with your carton of milk in the school cafeteria.

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• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 43

A batch of hazelnut-inflected, raspberry-jamwiched linzers is nothing if not a testament to your heart most definitely being in the right place.

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• 30 M
• 3 H
• 2

This sassy roast chicken gets its moist meat and ultra-crisp skin from the two-step process of searing it in a skillet then sliding the whole thing in the oven. Simplicity.

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• 30 M
• 1 H, 20 M
• 1