Maple-Whiskey Pudding Cakes
These individual desserts bake up with a gooey sauce beneath a layer of rich, tender cake. We tried a few different types of whiskey here: our favorites were Jameson for its clean, bright flavor and Rittenhouse rye for its spicy depth. This recipe can easily be doubled to serve eight. Serve the pudding cakes warm, […]
Salted Peanut and Caramel Tart
The classic peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich—also known as the Fluffernutter—is inarguably all-American. And Le Petit Grain, a Parisian boulangerie headed by Edward Delling-Williams, created a delicious riff on that childhood favorite. The bakery combines all of the elements into elegant individual tartlets called tartes cacahuètes (literally, peanut tarts). A buttery, cookie-like pastry is filled […]
Raspberry-Ricotta Cake
There’s nothing like a moist, fluffy, berry-streaked cake to make any weeknight (or, um, weekday morning) feel special. This is an easy, no-fuss way to make a great dessert. It's more of a European-style cake, with a denser texture and restrained sweetness. It’s got a super approachable ingredient list and with little effort you end […]
Torta Caprese
Torta caprese is an Italian flourless chocolate cake that contains finely ground almonds, which subtly break up the fudgy crumb. Our version contains melted butter and bittersweet chocolate as well as vanilla, cocoa powder, and salt that boost the chocolate’s complexity. Instead of grinding almonds in a food processor, we use commercial almond flour […]
Tex-Mex Cheese Enchiladas
Unlike their Mexican kin, Tex-Mex enchiladas have no meat and no tomatoey sauce. Instead, a smoky chile gravy provides the bulk of flavor in the dish. Dried ancho chiles, along with cumin, garlic, and oregano, are the perfect backbone for our roux-based sauce, and a splash of vinegar brightens it up. Instead of going with […]
Pita and Chickpea Salad with Yogurt and Mint (Fatteh)
This dish is known as fatteh in the Levant, where it often is eaten for breakfast. It’s a way to turn stale pita bread into a hearty meal. We, however, start with fresh pita, brush it with butter, crisp it in the oven, then break it into shards before topping the pieces with warmed […]
Fresh Tomato Galette
Slices of ripe tomato nestled into a buttery, flaky crust? Sounds great, until the liquid in the tomatoes rains on your parade. The hard part about baking with tomatoes is their unpredictable juice. But their summer sweetness is perfect for a savory tart to eat at lunch or to share at dinner with a green […]
Greek-American Lamb Gyros
Greek-American gyros employ the same vertical rotisserie method of cooking as authentic Greek gyros, and both come served in rich, fluffy pita bread with a yogurt-based sauce, tomatoes, and onions, but that's where the similarities end. Unlike Greek gyros, which are usually made with whole pieces of thinly-sliced marinated pork skewered in a large […]
Apple Strudel
Most modern phyllo-based versions of strudel have tough layers of phyllo on the underside, while the sheets on top shatter before you even cut a slice. Meanwhile, fillings collapse and leak everywhere, despite the bread crumbs supposedly added to soak up the liquid and prevent leaking (instead, they just make the filling taste pasty). […]
Triple Berry Crisp
The easiest Triple Berry Crisp made with frozen berries for a juicy berry filling nestled under a crispy oat topping. I use these big beautiful frozen berries from Costco’s 3-berry pack in the frozen section. They are much cheaper than fresh berries and every bit as delicious. It also makes this recipe extra easy. […]
Berbere Chicken with Ethiopian Lentils
This recipe for Crispy Skinned Berbere Chicken with Ethiopian Lentils is hearty and flavorful. If you are vegetarian, skip the chicken and try the Berbere with Tofu- just as tasty!The Berbere spice mix is rubbed all over the chicken thighs, and pan-seared in a skillet then placed in a hot oven to finish. The skin […]
Giant No-Flip Blueberry Pancake
While we love the concept of making pancakes for a crowd, we don’t love the reality of standing over the stove, dishing out pancakes to guests like a short-order cook (and we definitely don’t love relegating the early batches of pancakes to the oven, where their texture will surely suffer). And so this crowd-feeding […]
Greek Spinach and Feta Pie (Spanakopita)
Microwaving, chopping, and then ridding mature fresh spinach of excess water gave our spanakopita recipe bold spinach flavor. To buffer the assertiveness of feta and to add textural contrast, we added Greek yogurt to the spanakopita recipe. We chose to bake our spanakopita on a baking sheet. Its sides were short enough to allow […]
Glossy Fudge Brownies
A glossy, paper-thin crust is a sure sign of chocolate brownies loaded with cocoa butter, and a solid indication that their flavor will shine through as well. To that end, these BraveTart brownies are made with dark chocolate and high-fat Dutch cocoa powder, a one-two punch that gives them a powerful chocolate flavor—one that's […]
Chocolate Babka
Baking a chocolate babka is no casual undertaking. The Eastern European yeast-risen coffee cake has 14 steps and takes all day to make. But the results are worth every sugarcoated second – with a moist, deeply flavored brioche-like cake wrapped around a dark fudge filling, then topped with cocoa streusel crumbs.
Tomato Galette
You know how you’re biologically wired to salivate like a dripping air conditioner when you smell the combination of baking dough, cheese, garlic, and tomato?That would be pizza. But swap the yeasty pizza dough with buttery pie dough, use a hard and salty cheese instead of milky mozz, slices of peak-season tomatoes instead of […]