Noelle C. Serafino, Recipe Tester

This recipe is gonna change your mind about store-bought applesauce. And not just because it lets you use your slow cooker and walk away. Wait’ll you taste it.

• 15 M
• 6 H, 15 M
• 4

Couldn’t be easier. Simply freeze puréed fruit, water, and sugar and you have sorbet. Any-flavor-you-want fruit sorbet. Best part? No ice cream maker required.

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• 20 M
• 3 H
• 0

Reason number #456 to love summer? This luxuriously decadent yet relatively marginally healthful chocolate zucchini cake. Seriously.

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• 45 M
• 1 H, 35 M
• 2

Sometimes a pie craving is just too strong to wait for a plate and fork and fussily crimping a top crust. Enter this easy peasy yet elegant crostata.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 50 M
• 2

Bring back memories? How about we make some new memories with whatever the heck you feel like sprinkling on top of your chocolate-covered bananas? After all, you’re an adult. You get to decide.

• 15 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 4

At last, spiced chocolate truffles made with dark chocolate that taste delectable, are easy to make, and—believe it!—nutrient dense. Our prayers have been answered.

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• 45 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 0

Lighter, more delicate, some may even say more sophisticated, and we dare say better than any other carrot cake you’ve ever had. No pineapple. No raisins. No complaints.

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• 30 M
• 3 H
• 0

Blueberry pie. The mere mention of it sorta makes you wanna stop everything and sprint to the kitchen, doesn’t it? This pie is soooooooooo worth the interruption to your day.

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• 30 M
• 2 H
• 2

We usurped traditional Vietnamese fillings with colorful and crunchy vegetables. Crazy good. And crazy good for you.

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• 45 M
• 45 M
• 0

Made in minutes from just five ingredients, this cranberry relish belongs in your weeknight repertoire and not just on your Thanksgiving table. Did we mention it freezes beautifully?

• 20 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 4

Subtly flavored chicken skewers that deconstruct the classic Caesar salad into simple and spectacular components.

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• 25 M
• 55 M
• 0

This classic spiced milk tea is made with chai spices and—are you ready?!—sweetened condensed milk. It’s ridiculously lovely.

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• 5 M
• 10 M
• 4

How to explain these wine poached pears? “Lovely” and “simple” and “quick” and “easy” and “impressive” come to mind.

• 25 M
• 4 H, 25 M
• 4

“Everything I love about brownies. The fudgy center. The crisp edges. And that wondrous crinkly top.” That’s what folks are saying about these.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 4