Brothy Beans with Roasted Tomatoes
When it comes to beans, people often feel like they need to be extra, paired with many ingredients, and fussed over—often feeling that beans have no flavor. However, when given just a bit of love (like in these brothy beans), the taste and texture of the beans are unmatched.
Chocolate Birthday Cake
This tender, dark chocolate cake, layered with a fluffy, not-too-sweet, white Ermine icing, also known as boiled-milk frosting, is inspired by the memory of a Chuck E. Cheese chocolate birthday cake from the early 1990s. This style of devil’s food cake is also a staple of the refrigerated cases in supermarket bakeries, and starts […]
King Arthur Baking School: Basic Bread
Mixing, kneading, rising, shaping, proofing: These are basic steps you’ll want to master to bake almost every kind of yeast bread. This simple recipe, which we’ve used to teach thousands of students to bake bread, makes a pair of lovely, golden loaves with medium grain—perfect for slicing when baked as a pan loaf. It’s […]
Smoked Gouda, Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Bisque
This Smoked Gouda Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Bisque has a silky smooth texture and is deliciously rich and creamy. Fire roasted tomatoes, roasted red peppers, aromatic garlic and onion, savory chicken stock, herbs and spices, slow simmered and pureed, and then swirled with heavy cream and melty smoked gouda cheese. It’s the perfect soup recipe […]
Pork Chops with Sherry Pan Sauce with Ras Al Hanout
Dry sherry lends an oxidized, nutty complexity to this pan sauce. Sweetened with fresh orange juice and dried fruit, it's perfect with pork chops or seared duck breasts. The technique in this recipe for making a pan sauce relies on rendering fat from the meat, setting it aside, and using that fat to bloom […]
Zach’s Garlic, Herb, and Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
These Garlic, Herb, and Parmesan Mashed Potatoes are smooth, creamy, and full of flavorful. Yukon Gold potatoes have a natural buttery consistency that whip up fluffy and smooth and they are high in starch so they readily absorb the creamy butter and half and half. These potatoes are embellished with roasted garlic, herby cheese spread, […]
Tony’s Master American Pizza Dough with Starter
This is what I’d call the quintessential American pizza dough, inspired by New York–style pizza: medium thin, satisfyingly chewy, and the ideal companion to mozzarella, tomato sauce, and the pizza toppings Americans love best, from pepperoni and sausage to olives, mushrooms, and other vegetables. It’s the dough I teach first to new students, and […]
Triple-Oatmeal Cookies
These buttery brown sugar cookies may be loaded with crunchy pecans and tart cranberries, but they’re all about the oats: rolled for the heartiness of a granola bar, steel-cut for a toothsome chew, and flour for a tender crumb. Pick up a bag of oat flour online or in stores, usually in the baking […]
Pasta with Nduja and Ricotta Cheese Made Easy
This paccheri pasta with nduja and ricotta cheese makes for a great comfort food. It’s from Southern Italy, and although it requires a few steps, it’s still a very easy recipe, that requires only some good-quality ingredients. This recipe has a strong local identity, and many of its ingredients are tied to southern regions […]
Best Prime Rib
The perfect prime rib should have a deep-colored, substantial crust encasing a tender, juicy rosy-pink center. To achieve this perfect roast, we started by salting the roast overnight. The salt enhanced the beefy flavor while dissolving some of the proteins, yielding a buttery-tender roast. To further enhance tenderness, we cooked the roast at a very […]
Perfect Pulled Pork Recipe
This pulled pork recipe is requested at every get-together we go to. It’s so fall-off-the-bone tender and packed with flavor you don’t even need BBQ sauce. It honestly makes the best pulled pork sandwich ever. Come see how easy it is to make this pulled pork oven recipe.
Chicken, Sausage, and Red Pepper Paella
Paella to me is the ultimate one pot meal. It also is the time of year where I am not ready for a stew but want something more substantial than the usual summer fare. Paella is a great answer. Although paella is considered Spanish I think this one is more Mediterranean. I use Italian […]
Baci di Dama (Italian Hazelnut Cookies)
These Lilliputian Italian hazelnut-chocolate sandwich cookies are utterly charming—but only if they're perfect. Our approach makes it easy to get them just right.These tiny Italian hazelnut-chocolate sandwich cookies are typically made from a very rich, fragile dough that easily softens and crumbles when you roll it. Reducing the amount of butter and nuts in the […]
Noche Buena Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
These Christmas Eve chocolate sandwich cookies are infused with the rich flavors of Dutch-processed cocoa, coffee liqueur, and dulce de leche.The secret to the distinct flavor of these Noche Buena Chocolate Sandwich Cookies is the dulce de leche filling. Sandwiching the rich dulce de leche between two cookies ensured the bold flavors of the […]
Fantasy Fudge
This easy Fantasy Fudge is a no-fail recipe everyone will love! Made with marshmallow fluff and chocolate chips, it’s the perfect holiday treat!
Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
This Easy Peanut Butter Fudge is rich, creamy, and unbelievably simple thanks to the magic of marshmallow creme. It’s the perfect no-fuss recipe for irresistibly smooth, sweet treats!This recipe takes inspiration from the old-school “fantasy fudge” that calls for marshmallow creme. And let me tell you, that stuff is magic in a jar! Why? […]