Desserts


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Tips

How to Toast Coconut

No matter how you go about it, toasting coconut immediately pumps up the flavor of whatever dish you add it to.

How to Make Candy Cane Sugar

Do your favorite party foods tend to be sweet instead of savory? Here's a way to give your sweets a little holiday flair.

Blind Baking Without Pie Weights

Pie weights work fine for weighing down the bottom of a pie crust — here's a way to keep the sides from sagging, too.

How to Crimp Pie Dough

No matter how simple a pie recipe is, make the finished product look elegant with one quick decorating tip.

Recycle Bakery Containers to Transport Homemade Baked Goods

Don't let all your hard work baking those treats go to waste — store and transport them safely with this quick tip.

How to Chop Warm Toasted Nuts

Toasted nuts add great flavor to cookies and other baked goods. Know when best to chop them, so they don't get unwieldy.

How To Fill A Pastry Bag

Filling a pastry bag can sometimes be awkward when trying to cuff the bag over your hand. Here's an easy, mess-free tip to fill a piping/pastry bag. Save time on frosting prep and simplify your cupcake decorating process with this helpful tip for filling pastry bags.

4 Tips for Perfect Shortcakes

For the best results, keep these four straightforward points in mind when mixing and cutting shortcake dough.

No Cake Tester? Use a Dry Spaghetti Noodle!

It's important to test soufflés or other baked goods for doneness. Here's a tip you'll want to keep in mind!

Easy, Easier, Easiest Cookie Decorating Tips

Cookie Decorating Tips & Tricks


How-To's

How To Assemble a Layer Cake with Frosting

Follow these simple steps for a cake that’s both impressive and stable.

All About Cream & How to Whip It

From half-and-half to heavy cream, this smooth and rich cooking and baking cornerstone is explained. Now you can case the dairy aisle with confidence. Plus, if you ever wondered about the difference between soft peaks, medium peaks, and stiff peaks, we'll teach you.


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Recipes

Lemon Pudding Cakes

This light and lemony recipe is quite literally a piece of cake to prepare—the hands-on time for making these cakes is less than 10 minutes. They're delicious served cool, but even better when still warm from the oven.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Whether you're a cookie, bar, or brownie fan, there's something here to please everyone. These perfect chocolate chip cookies are everything a good cookie should be — soft and chewy with crispy edges.

Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies

This foolproof recipe for perfect Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies will transport you back to your childhood in no time. Chewy, nutty, and oh-so delicious, these cookies are pure bliss.

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Forget that recipe on the back of the chip package — this is the best-ever recipe for Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies. With two kinds of chocolate, all three dozen cookies will be gone before you know it.

Rhubarb-Raspberry Brown Betty

A layered fruit dessert is hard to beat, especially when it’s as exceptional (and as easy) as this Rhubarb-Raspberry Brown Betty. Similar to a cobbler or a crisp, a brown betty is a baked fruit dessert that’s blanketed with buttered bread crumbs. In this betty, the crumbs are made with King’s Hawaiian rolls. This simple and delicious dessert of fruit, sugar, butter, and sweet bread crumbs is the perfect finale to any festive holiday meal.

Rhubarb-Lemon Muffins with Streusel Topping

With huge, crunchy, streusel tops, these muffins are hard to say no to. Really, why would you want to anyway? Go ahead, indulge!

Hot Cross Buns with dried currants & lemon glaze

Hot cross buns and Irish soda bread tend to make an appearance during certain times of the year, but there’s no reason you can’t enjoy them on a whim anytime.

Glossy Chocolate Icing

This Glossy Chocolate Icing is soft, shiny, and sumptuous. Look no further, this is the be-all and end-all of chocolate icings and will likely turn into your go-to icing for anything that requires chocolate.

Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake with Glossy Chocolate Icing

This is not a molten-middle, blacker-than-night chocolate cake. It's the kind of cake grandma used to make, with "Betty Crocker" looks and one-of-kind flavor.

Perfect Flaky Pie Crust

Follow this recipe for Perfect Flaky Pie Crust and these simple, easy-to-follow steps to yield the most flaky and tender pie crust you'll ever eat. This will be your new go-to crust for all your pie-baking needs. And be sure to check out our in-depth tutorial How to Make Perfect Flaky Pie Crust for a little more info before you start.

Giant Ginger Cookies

Recipes for ginger cookies (typically the roll-out kind) are a dime a dozen during the holiday season. But this is the recipe to turn to when you want a festively flavored cookie (i.e., bursting with ginger flavor) that’s not time consuming to bake or to decorate.

Mocha-Flavored Truffles

Truffles make the best gifts. They’re a cinch to make, are deeply rich and luxurious, and are absolutely, positively chocolate at its finest. For the best truffles, use quality chocolate. For the deepest chocolate flavor, use bittersweet chocolate labeled 60% cacao.