Desserts

  • 25 Best Cookie Recipes

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Twenty-five cookie recipes worth your butter — chewy, crisp, frosted, and spiced — for bake sales, holidays, and Tuesday afternoons. A good cookie collection is a kitchen safety net. Bad day,…

  • Best Christmas Cookies

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Buttery cut-out Christmas sugar cookies that hold sharp edges in the oven, with a simple royal icing made for decorating — the December tradition worth starting. There are two kinds of…

  • 30 Easy Dessert Recipes

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thirty easy dessert recipes — cakes, cookies, bars, and no-bake treats — that deliver big payoff for very reasonable effort. Dessert is the one course where effort and reward do not…

  • Best Banana Bread

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Ultra-moist banana bread with deep banana flavor — one bowl, no mixer, and on the table in about an hour. There is a particular stage of banana ripeness — more brown…

  • Best Carrot Cake Recipe

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. A moist, warmly spiced carrot cake with tangy cream cheese frosting — the reliable, crowd-pleasing cake for Easter, birthdays, and every spring table. Carrot cake has a way of converting people…

  • 30 Easy Baking Recipes

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 30 baking recipes worth turning the oven on for — chewy cookies, moist cakes, fluffy breads, and flaky pastries, from 20-minute bakes to weekend projects. Baking is its own kind of…

  • 25 Pumpkin Recipes

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 25 pumpkin recipes worth making this fall — from classic pie and soft cookies to savory soup, chili, and pasta. Every October the same thing happens: a can of pumpkin puree…

  • 20 Easy Cake Recipes

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 20 easy cake recipes for birthdays, holidays, and Tuesday nights — from one-bowl chocolate cake to no-bake icebox cake. Every baker needs a short list of cakes they can make without…

  • Best Strawberry Cake

    This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Tender pink cake made with real strawberries in the batter and the frosting — no boxed mix, no artificial flavor. Most strawberry cakes are a lie — pink food coloring and…