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Chocolate Pudding Cake
Whether you come to this chocolate pudding cake as a lava cake lover or a brownie fan, you’ll discover a combination worth lingering over. It’s the restaurant treat you can easily make at home.
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Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Our chocolate zucchini cake is a decadent fusion of chocolate and fresh zucchini, creating a rich, moist dessert. Perfectly simple to prepare, it’s ideal for an impromptu weeknight dinner or any party spread.
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Apple Spice Angel Food Cake
I dressed up an angel food cake mix with some nuts, spice and applesauce to make an easy and light dessert. I serve it with a dollop of whipped topping mixed with a half cup of sour cream.
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Cranberry Layer Cake
I adapted a Bundt cake recipe to create this layer cake. Cranberries, walnuts and homemade frosting make it taste so delicious that you'd never guess it starts with a convenient cake mix.
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Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake
Lemon blueberry dump cake comes together like magic—no mixing needed. It's loaded with fresh berries and served with a sweet, creamy topping.
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Mini Rum Cakes
My mother and I tried many different types of rum cake to find the best one, and finally hit on this cake that doesn't dry out and imparts the most flavor. For a really moist cake, brush rum over the individual sponge cakes before topping them with the filling.
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Cherry Pie Cocktail
Sipping on this cherry pie cocktail might just fool you into thinking you're indulging in a real slice of sweet cherry pie a la mode.
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Rhubarb Margarita
Our rhubarb margarita is perfect for patio season brunches or any day that needs a little sparkle. It's equal parts sweet and sour—and it's pink!
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Elise Jesse s BLT with Homemade Mayo
When tomato season hits, we make BLTs at a high clip. My homemade mayonnaise is the delicious sauce that holds the sandwich together. It's creamy, tangy and takes less than five minutes to make.
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Pickle Brined Chicken
Use up that leftover juice from the jar and make pickle-brined chicken. It's tender, juicy and lightly flavored with the sweet, salty and sour taste of pickles.
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Einspanner Coffee
Einspanner coffee is a decadent and indulgent way to get your morning caffeine fix.
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Perfect Bite Fruit Salad
A rainbow of finely chopped fruits lightly dressed with lime, honey and mint is what turns an everyday snack into a perfect bite fruit salad.
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Roasted Tomatoes and Onions on Toast
The inspiration for this recipe came from the treasure trove that is The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. Deb Perelman’s perfect union involves cipollinis and mini-Romas together, poured over toast with white beans for heft. Mine involves sungolds and cherry tomatoes bathed in olive oil, spring onions instead of cipollinis (I’m too lazy to peel the latter), and husky cloves of garlic roasted alongside the whole mess, to be spread on the toast like butter. Instead of the beans, to make it a meal, I eat seconds.
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New England Spider Cake
This is a two-bowl, all-of-the-ingredients-are-already-in-your-pantry sort of cake. It belongs on your post-holiday brunch table—and not only because you can make it at 8 A.M. on December 26. Throw together the batter when you realize you spent so much time fussing over holiday meals that you forgot about feeding your guests the next day. It will slow your mind—anxious from dolling up pretty candies—and your body—strung-out from digesting sugary treat after sugary treat—but it's not so virtuous as to be annoying.
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Gena Hamshaw s Vegan Deli Bowls With Smashed Chickpea Salad
Whether you have rosy associations with potato, macaroni, and other salads lovingly glommed together with mayo, or you’ve always been a bit uneasy about the whole genre—there is something for you to love in this recipe.
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Pasta With Lemon Parmigiano Sauce
Let’s begin with some clarifying vocabulary: “Parmesan” is a style of cheese (like “cheddar” and “mozzarella”), and “Parmigiano-Reggiano” is the world’s best variety of this cheese, only produced in Italy, exclusively in Bologna, Modena, Parma, and Reggio Emilia. Its moniker is “the king of cheese,” and that is no hyperbole.
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Padma Lakshmi s Yogurt Rice
There is comfort in knowing that as long as you keep yogurt, rice, and spices on hand, you can always feed yourself and your family dinner. The recipe is pictured here with Padma Lakshmi's Green Mango Curry. If you don't have the spices on hand, try a local spice shop or Indian grocery, or order them from Kalustyan’s, a beloved New York institution and one of author & Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s favorite stores), but it’s also okay to work with what you have. If you can't find urad dal, an Indian white gram lentil, for example, Lakshmi recommends frying cashews for a similar nutty crunch.
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Nigella Lawson s Meringue Gelato Cake with Chocolate Sauce
Much of the wonder of this dessert may lie in its semihomemade ease—you’re doing little more than bashing up store-bought meringues and folding them into whipped cream. But this gelato cake comes from quite literary roots, reminding us that we should be open to finding cooking inspiration in all sorts of places: dusty books at estate sales, our elders’ recipe boxes, or the yellowed clippings that flutter out of an old birthday card. In this case, it did help that Nigella Lawson could read Italian.
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Meera Sodha s Cardamom & Rose Water Kulfi
Traditional kulfi is a dense, almost chewy, frozen treat that dates back to the 16th century in India. It takes hours of vigilant simmering and stirring to reduce milk down to a quarter of its volume. As you probably suspect, this recipe is not traditional kulfi.
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Raspberry and Almond Skillet Cookie
If you love cookies, but want an even quicker fix, grab your skillet. This giant cookie can feed a crowd of six... or just one if you don't feel like sharing.