Kelley B., Recipe Tester

Made from scratch with natural ingredients, these are gonna remake all your memories of stale, bland animal crackers in the circus box.

What, pray tell, is a mean shandy, you ask? Think of a regular shandy with a spirited streak. There you have it.

We’re giving you permission to lend a little more crunch and a lot more indulgence to the childhood classic.

Oh yes we did! We battered and deep-fried a childhood classic and then pronounced it magnificent. We think you will, too.

After grilling up these lovely little lamb lollies, we finally understand why so many folks use “lamb chop” as a term of endearment.

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.

When you’ve got leftover bread, sure, you could make bread crumbs. Or you could make this Southern melding of pie and pudding that’s obscenely indulgent. Tough decision, eh?

Forget the state fair. You can have funnel cakes whenever you want. And as many as you want. Without asking your parents’ permission. And they’re as quick and easy as pancakes.

If in the beginning there was pie, it was probably chess pie seeing as it comes together soooooo simply from pantry staples.

A ridiculously easy way to cook bacon for a crowd. No fuss. No standing at the stovetop. No spatters.

Wowsers! (We can’t really think of anything else to say about these stunning cookies, except they’re far easier to make than you’d expect.)

Birthday bashes. Cocktail parties. Thanksgiving dinner. Tuesday nights. These are but some occasions we’ve watched these disappear.

“My new go-to sweet potato casserole.” “A keeper.” That’s what folks are saying about this insanely easy sweet potato casserole.

These wee biscuits are spectacular just with a smidgen of butter, but slap some ham or turkey on them and woah.

Quite possibly the easiest caramel recipe we’ve ever encountered. But that’s not why we make it. One taste and you’ll understand.

A Thanksgiving classic revisited with an added emphasis on sugar and spice and, yes, everything nice. A sweet potato mash topped with marshmallow and—believe it or not—crushed gingersnaps. Heresy? Or high-five-worthy? You tell us.