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DIY Cold Slab for Pastry- and Candy-Making
If you have a hot kitchen and/or don't have a marble slab for pastry- and candy-making, here's a simple hack to keep your ingredients cold using a common kitchen item.
How to Freeze Bananas—For Smoothies & Baking
Don't toss those overripe bananas! Throw them in the freezer instead so you always have ripe bananas on hand for baking or smoothies. Use this simple tip for a less-mess, faster way to freeze and thaw bananas.
How to Make a Frosting Dam for a Filled Layer Cake
A frosting dam helps keep your filled layer cakes looking clean and professional. Here's the simple technique to make a frosting dam when assembling and decorating cakes.
An Easy Way to Stabilize a Layer Cake for Decorating
Assembling and decorating a layer cake can be challenging, especially if your cake is slipping and slidding around when you frost it! Here's a super-simple tip to keep your cake stabilized—plus it helps make cutting the cake easier.
How to Neatly Cut Through Meringue
Meringue can be a challenge—it sticks to your knife and tears, usually messing up your beautiful pie or cake. While it's still tasty, try this quick trick to cut through meringue cleanly every time, leaving perfect slices of pie or cake to serve.
Use a Tea Infusion Spoon as a Flour or Sugar Shaker
A tea infusion spoon/ball may seem like just another unitasker in the kitchen, but with this quick baking tip, you can use it for more tasks.
Use Toothpaste to Polish Silver
Company was on its way, and you need to polish some silver STAT! Pull that toothpaste out of the bathroom and put it to use in another way with this simple tip.
DIY Pie Crust Shield
Do your pie crust edges brown too fast? You can certainly buy a pie crust shield, but they can be hard to arrange on top of the pie and sometimes don't fit. You can make a DIY version that's sure to fit any pie! See this simple tip to make a DIY pie crust shield.
How to Whisk By Hand Without Wearing Yourself Out
Some recipes require extended periods of whisking, such as hollandaise or when making whipped cream by hand. Use this easy tip to whisk by hand with fewer tired hands and sore muscles.
The Many Uses for a Grapefruit Spoon
Looking for new ways to use this previous unitasker? The sharply serrated edges come in handy for quite a few kitchen tasks. Check out our tips for other ways to use a grapefruit spoon.
The Mess-Free Way to Pour Liquids into Resealable Bags
Need an extra hand to pour stocks, sauces, soups and other liquids into bags to freeze? Use this tip for mess-free pouring to help!
Use a Fork to Decorate Cookies-No Special Tools Required!
For quick and easy cookie decorating, turn to your silverware drawer! Use a fork to drizzle and drip glazes and frostings on desserts—no special decorating tools required!
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Recipes
Buttermilk-Bacon Pancakes
The ultimate breakfast, these all-in-one Buttermilk-Bacon Pancakes will be a family favorite for years to come.
Cinnamon Apple Muesli Bars
Fuel up for the day with these fiber-filled Cinnamon Apple Muesli breakfast bars that will make your morning routine easier and more enjoyable.
Apricot, Walnut, and Coconut Date Bars
Brighten up your morning with Apricot, Walnut, and Coconut Date Bars — a tropical escape courtesy of sweet apricots and luscious coconut. Protein from the almonds and walnuts will help keep your hunger at bay.
Peanut Butter and Banana Muesli Bars
The classic flavor pairing in Peanut Butter and Banana Muesli Bars is perfect for breakfast, and uses up those ripe bananas on your kitchen counter.
White Bean and Tomato Salad
This refreshing and flavorful White Bean and Tomato Salad will have you hooked on cooking beans from scratch! Dried beans produce a firmer texture than the canned variety and can be soaked in advance for easy prep.
Strawberry Pistachio Semifreddo
A little sweet and a little salty, this frozen mousse-like Strawberry Pistachio Semifreddo will be your new favorite summertime treat.
Maple Sausage & Waffles Overnight Casserole
Get your prep work out of the way the night before and have breakfast ready to pop in the oven first thing in the morning with this Maple Sausage & Waffles Overnight Casserole.
Pain au Potiron
This recipe for Pain au Potiron comes from The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day cookbook by Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., and Zoë François. It's a moist whole-wheat bread with tender bites of pumpkin and hints of pepper — perfect for winter squash (and soup!) season.
Red Velvet Waffles with chocolate
How about dessert for breakfast? Red Velvet Waffles’ rich chocolate flavor is irresistible. But, wait! Drizzling (or coating!) these waffles with the dreamy Cream Cheese Frosting seals the deal.
Savory Cheese & Pastrami Waffles
Savory Cheese & Pastrami Waffles are a riff off of a pastrami and rye sandwich. But, since no sammie is complete without a special sauce, insert the Spicy Mustard-aise (you might find yourself making these waffles simply for the sauce!).
Cinnamon Roll Waffles with cinnamon chips
Combine two breakfast faves — waffles and cinnamon rolls — for the ultimate morning treat: Cinnamon Roll Waffles with cinnamon chips. But, wait! Drizzling (or coating!) these waffles with the dreamy Cream Cheese Frosting seals the deal.
Black Pepper Ricotta Pancakes with lemonade glaze
These tender Black Pepper Ricotta Pancakes with lemonade glaze have an amusing play on that ever-popular, tried-and-true combo of lemon-pepper, with black pepper in the cakes and sweet lemon syrup.