Our 10 Most Popular Recipes of August

Justine Lee
Justine LeeRecipe Production Coordinator
Justine Lee is Kitchn's Recipe Production Coordinator and a food writer and recipe developer based in NYC. Her writing frequently appears in Food52, Bon Appetit, Food Network, The Infatuation, among others. She has also been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In her past, Justine has worked in various professional kitchens and food companies. This, along with her Korean-American culinary identity and a lifelong passion for baking, often informs her work. You will find Justine drinking iced coffees year-round, even in a snowstorm with gloves on.
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cut zucchini cake topped with cream cheese frosting and topped with chopped nuts on parchment paper on a marble surface
Credit: Photo: Alex Lepe: Food Styling: Rachel Perlmutter
Zucchini Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

While I am sad to see summer fade away, I already look back at August with an afterglow from all the incredible eats it delivered. As a collective, our favorites (from both you, our readers, and us editors!) were creamy, crispy, and all sorts of carby. Does icebox cake, carbonara made with a whole tin of anchovies, crunchy-punchy French onion dip chicken thighs, or Boston cream pie ring a bell? Probably, because it seemed like everyone was making them.

Let’s dive into the 10 most popular recipes that we blissfully ate as we enjoyed the last whispers of summer.

1 / 10
Brown Sugar Apple Pan Dowdy

Forget all the fussy pie crimping and latticing. These brown sugar-sweetened apples are baked under a pastry crust that gets broken into syrup-coated pieces.

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2 / 10
Cincinnati Chili

This iconic Midwestern combination of spaghetti, chili, and cheddar cheese is definitely worth a try.

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3 / 10
Creamy Parmesan Zucchini

With a creamy Parmesan cheese sauce, this simple side is a must-make during zucchini season.

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4 / 10
Anchovy Carbonara

This ultra-creamy (and weeknight-friendly!) pasta carbonara swaps in tinned anchovies for guanciale.

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5 / 10
Zucchini Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Grated zucchini is added to an oil-based cake batter along with warming spices and chopped walnuts, baked, then frosted with a lemon cream cheese frosting.
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6 / 10
Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars
With three impressive layers, plus a double dose of caramel sauce, these pie bars are a fall dessert you don’t want to miss out on.
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7 / 10
Boston Cream Pie
With three delicious layers of sponge cake, pastry cream, and chocolate ganache, this nostalgic dessert is a stunner.
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8 / 10
Icebox Cake
Turn whipped cream and Oreos into the ultimate no-bake summer dessert.
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9 / 10
Apple Dump Cake

Ease into early fall with this three-ingredient dessert. Just dump apple pie filling, cake mix, and butter into a dish and bake! (Yes, that's really it.)

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10 / 10
French Onion Dip Chicken Thighs
Rub skin-on chicken thighs in a combination of mayonnaise and onion soup mix for a simple chicken dinner full of crunch and tangy flavor.
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