Homemade monkey bread from scratch with buttery yeast dough balls coated in cinnamon-brown sugar and layered with nuts in a tube pan. Pull-apart and caramelized.
Homemade monkey bread from scratch with buttery yeast dough balls coated in cinnamon-brown sugar and layered with nuts in a tube pan. Pull-apart and caramelized.
Old-fashioned oatmeal pie with cinnamon and cloves in dark corn syrup filling. Quick oats form a chewy, nutty crust on top as it bakes for 1 hour.
Chocolate silk pie with a no-bake filling whipped silky-smooth by beating eggs into creamed butter, sugar, and unsweetened chocolate. Chilled in a flaky shell and crowned with billowy whipped cream.
Iced shapes are simple British cut-out biscuits made from a buttery lemon-scented dough, stamped with cookie cutters and finished with colored icing and sprinkles. A kid-friendly baking project.
Old-fashioned Omaha brownies made with melted unsweetened chocolate, sour cream, and walnuts. Fudgy edges with a slightly cakey center, the way grandma made them.
Chile-rubbed sirloin steaks served on grilled French bread slathered with olive-cilantro butter. A Southwestern-style open-faced steak that comes together in 30 minutes.
Mohren, a traditional German side dish of carrots and apples glazed in butter, honey, and white vinegar. Sweet, tangy, and simple with just a few ingredients.
Pecan crisps made with butter, brown sugar, and vanilla, rolled thin and topped with a pecan half. A simple kneaded dough yields tender, nutty cookies with lightly browned edges.
Cream cheese crescent cookies filled with apricot preserves, rolled into crescent shapes, and dusted with powdered sugar. A flaky, buttery Eastern European-style pastry with just 5 ingredients.
Fried diamond twist cookies with egg yolk dough, deep-fried crisp and dusted with powdered sugar. Scandinavian rosettes-meets-krumkake pastry also known as chrusciki or rosettes in other traditions.
Simple herbed butter spread made with softened butter and mixed herbs. A two-ingredient compound butter for sandwiches, bread, meats, and vegetables.
Fettuccine with walnut sauce made from sauteed garlic, onions, sour cream, and Parmesan. A rich, creamy pasta dinner ready in 20 minutes. Microwave-friendly sauce method.
Rollerblade cookies: boot-shaped honey-ginger cookies with toasted oats pressed on as skate wheels. A fun, low-sugar kid-friendly cookie cutout project.
Cracker bread rolls yeast-risen dough into thin 10-inch rounds topped with sesame seeds and bakes them crisp and shatter-crunchy. Homemade flatbread cracker for dips, spreads, and soup.
Fried bread crumbs: dry crumbs sauteed in melted butter until deeply golden and crisp. A two-ingredient finishing topping for pasta, vegetables, casseroles and gratins.