Calling all salted chocolate and chewy caramel lovers!! This gorgeous Valentine’s Day dessert is easier than you think.
A chocolate cookie crust gets pressed into the tart form so there’s no rolling needed to nail an exquisitely tender base. Then pour in that luscious caramel layer and top it off with 2-ingredient (but very professional looking!) chocolate ganache and a sprinkle of crunchy, flaky sea salt — and enjoy a happy, little slice of edible love!!
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Let’s get some cozy, cottage-core dessert (or snack! or breakfast!) vibes going this week with a sumptuous cinnamon baked apple, stuffed with oatmeal cookie crumble, doused in TWO sauces for an almond + vanilla cream dream… and best of all, it’s actually good for you!
Make like a happy little woodland creature and tuck in!
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One of my favorite holiday traditions is making batch after batch of these delightfully simple, epically buttery, sugary, melt in your mouth cookies all week long leading up to Santa’s big debut, and I’m so happy to bring you along for the annual fun!
I shared the recipe for our family’s fail-proof Christmas Sugar Cookies last year — and this year, I’m excited to bring you a not-at-all updated version for 2021… same recipe, bigger kids! I love that my kids eat the exact cookie recipe I grew up on, and it makes me so happy to see so many of you making and decorating these at home, too!
If I can give you one level up tip, make a batch, then brew a mug of earl grey tea with a splash of cream. Gather a few cookies warm from the oven and dunk them in one by one! Cozy.
It’s Christmas morning and we need something that’s easy to cook up for a crowd, festive enough to befit the holiday, but fast enough that you’re not going to spend the morning over a hot stove. Behold, the custardy soft center and crisp, caramelized brown sugar topping of Creme Brûlée French Toast!
The greatest part is it actually soaks overnight for best results, so all you have to do is pop it in the oven in the morning and watch your family go bananas. Actually, there are no bananas in this dish, but I bet that would be an amazing addition — just mash them up and throw in with the custard. But most importantly: never walk away from the broiler!!! Or your toast will be charcoal and you will be eating cereal for breakfast.
Anyway, make it — you’ll love it!
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Warm Gingerbread is my grandmother’s all-time favorite cold-weather dessert, and it’s shockingly hard to find on most menus. Since she’s not big on baking, I decided to tinker, taste, and create for her what I think is the most pillowy and moist (I said it), most fragrantly spiced, most delightfully easy gingerbread snack cake to enjoy all holiday season long.
The smell of fresh ginger and cinnamon and deeply caramelizing molasses is next-level as this cake bakes, and it holds up well if you don’t finish the whole thing hot out of the oven and want to enjoy with coffee or tea or cocoa the next day.
I serve it with a little puddle of silky vanilla creme anglaise, but go right to warm heavy cream if that’s more your speed (or vanilla ice cream – cold OR melted!). Your holiday dessert repertoire just got a whole lot cozier.
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The most iconic of fall desserts, Pumpkin Pie — Oz family style. This is Lisa Oz’s famous recipe from her cookbook The Oz Family Kitchen!! It combines a richly spiced fresh pumpkin filling (Cardamom! Cinnamon! All spice! Ginger! Oh my!) with the butteriest of easy sugar cookie-style crusts, which you are quickly going to decide is the only way to eat pumpkin pie.
There are quite literally no bad bites and they always go fast, which is why we always make at least two at a time. I took one liberty and doubled the sugar in the crust, which just enhances the quintessential sugar cookie taste and crisp texture.
Whether you’re a novice or experienced baker — it’s pie time!!
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It’s time for dessert on our Thanksgiving menu, and I wanted something classic but upgraded…
Dulce de Leche Pecan Pie!! Minus the classic corn syrup, adding a can of slowly caramelized condensed milk. Yes, it’s as absurdly sweet and delicious as it sounds. Buttery, tender crust with a crisp, crackling, sugar-coated top, dripping in pecans and a pudding-like dulce de leche filling.
Give thanks — maybe twice!!
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The perfect kick-off to the spookiest (and sweetest) weekend of the year are these homemade Twix, aka Chocolate Caramel Cookie Bars — decorated with chocolate cobwebs, candy corn fangs, and malt ball monsters!!
Even if you leave off the decor, you will be making a tender, heartbreakingly-buttery shortbread cookie layer, spread with the chewiest salted honey caramel, and a semisweet chocolate finish to gloss the top… it’s kind of perfect. These also make amazing hostess gifts!
Delicately sweet, wrapper-licking-good muffins that eat like a tender brownie with plenty of healthy twists! When I first created this recipe for my cookbook Relish in 2013, I was so excited for a fast breakfast I could take on-the-go that packed fiber and good fats into something with so much yummy chocolate flavor. Eight years on, the best part is that my kids LOVE them, too!
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This has been my favorite summer fruit dessert ever since Amanda Hesser, founder of Food 52 showed me her technique using glorious peaches. For me, plums are the perfect balance of sweet and tart — but you can use any stone fruit or give it a try with pears or apples to take it into fall!
The crust is tender and just a touch savory, and the filling is glossy on top and bursting with sugary caramelized juicy goodness underneath. Plus no dough rolling or fancy technique needed to nail a seriously impressive result. Because we’re busy little dessert connoisseurs, and this is what we like.
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