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Sicilian Ice Cream Sandwiches Are the Easiest Summer Treat
Gelato and brioche buns combine for a treat that's greater than the sum of its parts.
Jun 26, 2022
How I Make 2-Ingredient Jell-O Jigglers from Any Juice
It's time to bring Jell-O back! Here's the easy-peasy, 2-ingredient method I use to make Jell-O from all-natural ingredients.
Jun 24, 2022
Nutella Fluff Is a Summer Dream
Jello Breaks the Mold
Nutella, meet whipped cream.
Jun 24, 2022
Beach Glass Jello Squares Are So Refreshing
Jello Breaks the Mold
Fruit juice, yogurt, and a healthy helping of nostalgia.
Jun 24, 2022
No-Churn Hibiscus Sherbet Is Pretty, Easy, and Perfect for a Party
No ice cream machine? No problem!
Jun 19, 2022
Cucumber Granita Is the Best Way to Cool Down This Summer
Juneteenth
The definition of refreshing.
Jun 13, 2022
Homemade Ice Cream Cones Are Worth the Effort
A fun project that's easier than you think.
Jun 10, 2022
What’s the Difference Between Frozen Custard and Ice Cream?
Further proof that it's our differences that make us beautiful.
Jun 9, 2022
The Key to the Creamiest, Most Delightful Ice Cream: Avocado
It tastes like a totally heightened version of avocado.
Jun 6, 2022
Making Vegan Marshmallows at Home Is Easier than You Think
Sweet and pillowy, thanks to a few key ingredients.
Jun 2, 2022
This No-Bake Banana and Peanut Butter Caramel Icebox Cake Is the Best Recipe I’ve Ever Developed
I'll never forget the moment I knew I'd nailed it.
May 25, 2022
Recipe: Black Tea & Orange Juice Ice Pops
As a kid, orange Popsicles were always my go-to from those big boxes of fruit-flavored icy treats that would make appearances at end-of-year school parties and friends’ summer birthdays. Forget cherry or grape — the citrusy pops were the only kind that mattered in my 9-year-old mind. Now, to be completely honest, if I were faced with that box again, my choice would be the same.
May 1, 2019
Recipe: Lemon Meringue Layer Cake
Sometimes you need someone else to come up with a bright idea — especially the ones that are so obvious in hindsight — so you can simply partake in its glory. That’s how we feel about this confection that brings the flavors and gooey textures of lemon meringue pie to a towering layer cake. We’re just happy someone dreamt it up so we can make it at home! To demystify some of the magic, start by watching this video.
May 18, 2022
Recipe: Rustic Honey and Almond Naked Cake
Looking for a baking project that screams spring? This stunning honeycomb almond cake requires just enough of your attention to get you in the baking zone without becoming overwhelming. It’s a great cake for pro-bakers and intrepid beginners alike, thanks to its mix of classic techniques with minimalist styling. If you’re in charge of dessert for a spring shower, birthday party, or afternoon tea, consider this rustic naked cake for the special occasion.
May 18, 2022
Recipe: Chocolate Hazelnut Ombre Cake
We never get over how magical baking is. You take all these raw ingredients and mix them together, and a few hours later you have something beautiful and delicious to share. If you find comfort in stirring a bowl of chocolate batter, or a sense of calm frosting a cake, you’re probably already aware of the fact that baking can make you feel better. We also think watching someone bake something beautiful can have the same effect.
May 18, 2022
Recipe: Lemon Curd Ice Cream
What is it about lemons and summer? If you happen to live in a citrus-growing region, you know that it’s possible to find ripe lemons on trees year-round, but that they are actually in peak season in the dead of winter. I think it’s thanks to the summertime tradition of lemonade stands that makes me associate the tangy flavor with the hot months.
May 17, 2022
Top 5 Desserts to Make Pink: And Amy Atlas’s Recipe for Strawberry Truffles
Truffles: Whether white chocolate or dark chocolate, you can roll your truffles in pink sprinkles or pink sanding sugar to give it a pink coating. Meringue: Meringue is a blank canvas so tinting it pink is very easy. Follow your meringue recipe. After whisking meringue together into stiff peaks, whisk in a drop of pink food gel, or as much as needed to turn the meringue pink. Continue to pipe and bake according to recipe directions.
May 17, 2022
Recipe: Citrus Salad with Honey & Bitters Dressing
The basic ingredients for this cheerful salad are easy to find, but lend themselves to an upgrade. Perfect citrus fruit is plentiful and affordable during winter, so mix in some of the more exotic specimens you’ve been tempted to try.You can cut the fruit into simple bite-sized chunks or elegant citrus supremes (see our lesson here on how to cut citrus into pith-free segments).
May 17, 2022
Dessert Recipe: Hot Baked Nutella & Cream Cheese Sandwich
I put the word dessert in the title of this recipe to make sure that this crisp, gooey temptation didn’t accidentally find its way into your lunch. Or dinner. This isn’t a meal. It’s not a snack. It’s really not for breakfast. Truly. I’m warning you. Just trying to do my duty. This is all dessert. Here’s what’s involved: Nutella (obviously). Cream cheese. A sprinkle of salt, and the best crusty Italian bread you can find, sliced as thin as you can.
May 17, 2022
Recipe: Peaches and Cream Semifreddo
You know it’s a good day when your future father-in-law arrives at your house with a brown paper sack full of ripe Elberta peaches, straight off a farm in rural Georgia. And while it’s not the first of the sweet fruit I’ve enjoyed this year, it is certainly the most. So many, in fact, I had to ask Twitter what to do with them! Besides the obvious—to eat them one-by-one until my tummy ached—I actually didn’t get too many responses.
May 17, 2022
Recipe: 3-Ingredient Healthy Ice Cream
Come January, the hum and buzz of juicers everywhere builds and I hear of more and more people making resolutions to clean out their systems and drink more juice, at least temporarily. No judgement; in fact, last year at this time I was on a five-day juice cleanse so my juicer was working hard and I was feeling alive and clean. This year, though, I am more in the mood to make my ice cream machine hum rather than my juicer.
May 17, 2022
Recipe: Ginger Cinnamon Caramels
We are big fans of the fantastically spicy ginger chews from Ginger People (although… their oddly anthropomorphic ginger mascots? Cute or creepy?) Spicy ginger is comforting and warm, nice for winter colds, and so delicious with hot tea. When making our last batch of caramels we decided to try out our new ginger extract and make ginger candies ourselves. How did they turn out? For pictures and more, read on…We love them.
May 17, 2022
Good Question: Easy, Transportable Birthday Cake?
Birthday party in the park! Here’s a good question from reader Theresa.I am organizing a birthday picnic BBQ for 2 friends next weekend. We’re expecting about 20 guests. Our picnic site is at a park so we have no access to a refrigerator or freezer (just coolers). Could you suggest a birthday cake (or cupcakes? Pies?) that is tasty, easy to make, transportable, and won’t melt at the sight of the sun? Thanks so much!Theresa, a birthday park in the picnic sounds like a blast.
May 13, 2022
How To Make an Anatomically Correct Lego Cake
Speaking of birthday cakes, I made one last weekend. This particular cake was for a friend’s son, who was having his eighth birthday. My friend’s son is madly into LEGOs, and when he saw a building block cake on LEGO’s website, he fell in love. My friend, who is a magnificent cook but doesn’t bake, asked if I would try it. Sure! Why not? I went looking online for LEGO cake inspiration and discovered many, many cakes — but a dearth of really practical directions.
May 13, 2022
Restaurant Dessert Inspiration: Deconstructed Key Lime Pie
At the end of a near-perfect restaurant meal recently, I ate a dessert I haven’t stopped thinking about for weeks: deconstructed key lime pie. Light and refreshing, it is simpler than a slice of pie and yet much more refined. And although it sounds fancy, it’s not much more difficult to make than the original.I tried this dessert at Son of a Gun, a fish-centric restaurant in Los Angeles that serves homey yet elegant food that is anything but stuffy.
May 13, 2022
10 Delicious Bite-Sized Desserts
For Valentine’s Day this year we made individual portions of tiramisu in small coffee cups. Soon after that we used our ragtag collection of espresso cups for 3 to 4 bites of some very dense chocolate mousse. Now we’ve fallen in love with individual spoonfuls of crème brulée — we just love the idea of desserts made for one delicious bite.
May 13, 2022
Recipe Recommendation: Cornmeal Fennel Cookies
We were in a cookie-baking mood over the weekend, so we flipped through our cookbooks and our 3-ring binder collection of recipe printouts and magazine tear sheets. Finally we settled on a recipe we’d cut out of a back issue of Sunset magazine last year for cornmeal fennel cookies.We chose this recipe (click here for recipe) because it looked interesting, and we had all the ingredients on hand, so it was convenient.
May 12, 2022
Alternative to Carrot: Banana Nut Birthday Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
We threw a birthday party for a friend on Friday, and we asked her what kind of cake she wanted. The answer: “A banana cake with cream cheese frosting.” Come again? We asked if she didn’t mean carrot. No, she wanted banana. And not banana bread, mind you. Birthday cake. Well, we found a great recipe from a funny source…Turns out Paula Deen, the high priestess of Southern decadence, served none other than a banana nut cake with cream cheese frosting as her wedding cake.
May 12, 2022
How Can I Make Cake Pops Less Sweet?
Q: Speaking of cake pops — any tips on making them less sweet? I know they are an inherently sweet dessert, but I have reservations serving them as I feel they might be too sweet for most people.I’ve make the version from Bakerella’s book with her homemade white cake recipe and storebought icing. (A compromise as I was short for time). PS. Shark-jumped or not, they are new to most of my friends and impressing them is fun!
May 12, 2022
Irresistible Clementine SherbetRecipe Review
We wrote about this recipe two years ago and just got around to making it (with a minor citrus swap-out) this week. We might not forgive ourselves for taking that long. If you like sherbet, heed our advice: This is one of the easiest and most addictive desserts we’ve made in a while.We’ve always been bigger fans of sherbet than sorbet. Sorbet is virtuous. Sherbet toes that fine line between, “I’m eating fruit for dessert! Go me,” and “Oooh, this is creamy.
May 12, 2022
Easy Cake Decorating: 4 Ideas for a Pretty Party Dessert
Consider this cake decorating for dummies—foolproof ways to make a layer cake look super impressive without a lot of fancy tools. Two even use store-bought candy.One of these designs requires a piping bag of sorts, although we’re sure a Ziploc would work. And number 3? Malted milk balls! How mod and futuristic does that look? And you could be as sloppy as you wanted with the frosting underneath.
May 12, 2022
Bakewell Tart: A Scrumptious, Jammy Treat
Have you caught the jam-making bug this summer? In the past week, we’ve put up batches of strawberry, cherry, peach, and plum jam, and there’s no sign of stopping! If you’re like us, you might be wondering what to do with this abundance of preserves. Say hello to the bakewell tart.Deliciously textured and the perfect way to show off your seasonal preserves, this classic English pastry consists of a shortcrust base, a layer of jam, and an almond frangipane sponge.
May 12, 2022
Cool Idea! DIY Ice Cream Kit in a Jar
Sometimes we forget how simple it is to make ice cream. All you really need is sugar, cream, and a way to cool down the liquid while shaking it until it thickens. No fancy mixer needed. In fact, a canning jar and a handful of ice will do the trick quite nicely!Shared by Victoria of City Cradle Design and posted to the Style Me Pretty blog, this idea for making individual ice cream kits in canning jars is absolutely brilliant.
May 12, 2022
Recipe: Orange, Almond & Date Salad
Like Faith, I adore the combination of oranges and dates. Rich with natural sweetness, the pair makes for a simple (not to mention gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and vegan!) weeknight dessert. I like to arrange them on a platter along with cinnamon roasted almonds and a scattering of mint for an elegant and playful way to end a meal.
May 12, 2022
Questions for David Lebovitz: Best Advice for First-Time Ice Cream Chefs?
We’re big fans of David Lebovitz here at The Kitchn. We toured his Paris kitchen earlier this year, and just last week we gave away several copies of his fabulous ice cream cookbook, The Perfect Scoop. He also graciously agreed to answer several questions for us – on all things ice cream, of course! Our first question was simple: what advice would you give to a first-time ice cream chef?Here’s David’s response.
May 12, 2022
Good Question: How Do I Make Chewy Caramels?
Juliet is frustrated in her quest to make soft, chewy caramels – can anyone help?About making caramel candy–you know, the nice soft chewy kind with cream and butter in it? Well, I’ve now tried twice to make it: the first time it came out too hard, but with a perfectly pleasant toffee-like result.
May 12, 2022
Recipe: Lemon-Blueberry Yogurt Cake with Lemon Cream
I’m a sucker for an unfussy cake, the kind of cake that you can whip up in an hour or less without any extra trips to the grocery store, one that is special enough to serve to guests, but homey enough to not need a special occasion at all. This fragrant lemon cake — scattered with juicy blueberries and dolloped with soft lemon cream — is the perfect unfussy cake, just the thing to bring to a last-minute spring dinner party or to snack on with afternoon tea.
May 12, 2022
How To Flavor a Cake with Jam Syrup
If you’ve got a few spoonfuls of jam in your refrigerator, you can turn a plain yellow or chocolate cake into something special without altering the recipe one bit. We added a hint of raspberry flavor to a basic chocolate cake, above, just by mixing some jam with a little hot water.
May 12, 2022
Huge Chocolate Chip Cookie Baked in a Cast-Iron Skillet Recipe Review
Remember those chocolate chip cookie cakes you used to buy at the mall? It’s like that, only better. Crispy on the edges, soft in the middle, and so quick, we may never make individual scoop-and-drop cookiesHere’s how we ended up with our giant cookie: We wanted a hot, straight-from-the-oven cookie for dessert the other night and had all the ingredients on hand. But something about scooping balls of dough made us tired.
May 11, 2022
Cupcakes In a Jar! The Latest Cupcake Craze
A friend informed us recently that cupcakes in a jar are the hot thing right now. They’ve been seen on The Today Show and in O Magazine. Really, we said. We haven’t even seen these things. What are they? Cupcakes in a jar, it turns out, are like the illicit love child of cake pops and those jarred cake mixes ubiquitous in holiday gift-giving. Have you tried one of these mashed confections of cake and frosting?
May 11, 2022
What Desserts Can I Make On the Stove? Good Questions
Q: I’m an exchange student living in Shanghai for the semester. My kitchen is pretty limited. I have two burners and a fridge/freezer, a frying pan and a cheap pot. And since I only have two months left, I’m not exactly interested in buying any more kitchen appliances or pans.The pasta, stir-frys and egg dishes I’ve been making have kept me pretty content with savory food, but I’m at a loss for dessert.
May 11, 2022
Any Tips for Baking Without Recipes?
Sent by AdelineEditor: Adeline, many bakers rely on specific ratios of flour, fat, eggs or liquid as starting points when they make cakes, muffins and other sweet recipes. Michael Ruhlman’s book Ratio is a great resource for bakers (and cooks) looking to break away from recipes.
May 11, 2022
Word of Mouth: Affogato
affogato: n. An Italian, coffee-based dessert consisting of vanilla gelato (or ice creamThis is a really quick summer dessert (made better by a fancy name). Get some elaborate and boozy versions, below…Of course, hot espresso and cold ice cream doesn’t seem like a good combination. You might end up with more of a float or possibly a soup. We’d let the coffee or espresso cool slightly before pouring it over the ice cream.
May 11, 2022
Old-Fashioned Floats: Brown Cows to Boston Coolers
Ice cream floats were one of our favorite desserts as a kid – and still are! Combining scoops of rich ice cream and “only on the weekend” soda, they seemed like the ultimate treat. Back then our tastes were simple, but check out all these different kinds we’ve discovered!Wouldn’t it be fun to do an ice cream soda bar at a party and make several of these?
May 11, 2022
These Are the Chewy Brownies You'll Keep Coming Back To
From the deep chocolate flavor to the gooey center to the chewy edges, we can't get enough.
Apr 26, 2022
The Surprising Truth About Crêpes Suzette
They're so much easier to make than you think.
Apr 29, 2022
This Creamy Pistachio Ice Cream Is a Total Classic
No food coloring required.
Apr 23, 2022
How to Make Matzo Toffee Bark
Use this helpful guide to make this tasty Passover treat.
Apr 13, 2022
Matzo Farfel “Kit Kat”
These Kit Kat-inspired bars are Kosher for Passover, but you'll want to make them year-round.
Apr 7, 2022
Boston Cream Doughnuts
A treat any time of day.
Mar 25, 2022
Thick and Creamy Oreo Milkshake
Thick, creamy, and chock-full of Oreo goodness.
Mar 25, 2022
How to Make the Creamiest Coffee Ice Cream
No eggs required.
Mar 22, 2022
Catherine McCord’s Super-Creamy Vanilla Cinnamon Date Shakes
And no, it's not bananas.
Mar 20, 2022
Brigadeiro
The ultimate Brazilian treat.
Mar 7, 2022
Joanne Lee Molinaro’s Copycat (Vegan) Pocky Sticks
A plant-based, DIY version of the classic Japanese snack.
Mar 4, 2022
Coconut Ice Cream
Cool, creamy, and oh-so tropical.
Mar 3, 2022
Got Ganache? 7 Things to do with Leftover Chocolate Sauce
We made cookies with a dark chocolate ganache filling over the weekend. Whether we were being conservative with the ganache or the recipe was just off, we ended up with about a cup of it leftover. Which is now sitting in our fridge. Staring at us every time we reach in for something. Any ideas of how to use it?We’ve come up with a few ideas of our own:1. Truffles – The ganache has now hardened into a soft fudge.
Feb 28, 2022
Sweet and Salty Crispy Rice Treats
These heavenly treats feature a brown butter and marshmallow base with rice cereal and honey grahams throughout.
Feb 13, 2022
Vegan Donuts
Simple swaps make for the best ever donuts.
Feb 12, 2022
Dulce de Leche
Sweet, milky perfection.
Feb 7, 2022
Crème Caramel
The silky custard dessert is a classic for good reason.
Feb 4, 2022
Chocolate-Covered Cherries
Making this classic candy-store confection is easier than you think.
Jan 30, 2022
No-Bake Chocolate Lasagna
An impressively layered no-bake dessert anyone can pull off.
Jan 26, 2022
My Sweet Candied Citrus (Mứt) Offering for Tết
Ring in the Vietnamese new year with sparkly coins of Meyer lemon peel kicked up with hot chilies and licorice.
Jan 26, 2022
Nian Gao
A mochi-like steamed Chinese cake to ring in Chinese New Year.
Jan 21, 2022
The Ultimate Spumoni
Give the classic Italian dessert a few easy and fun upgrades.
Jan 18, 2022
Sesame Balls
They're crunchy, chewy, and sweet.
Jan 6, 2022
Baked Eggnog Custards
We all have holiday traditions we remember from growing up. When I think about my own, I think about my mom spending hours on Baked Alaska for my father’s company Christmas party each year. I think about stockings and lottery tickets on Christmas Eve and new pajamas. And I think about baked custards. In our house, baked custard wasn’t reserved just for the holidays.
Dec 23, 2021
Guava Swiss Roll
It's light, airy, and tropically sweet — a surefire hit at any holiday gathering.
Dec 23, 2021
55+ Absolutely Irresistible Chocolate Desserts
From weeknight pantry brownies to an impressive chocolate layer cake.
Dec 4, 2021
Gingerbread Cake Cookies
Forget gingerbread men. These warmly-spiced cookies will become a new holiday tradition.
Nov 22, 2021