10,000 cream recipes

Three-layer moist chocolate cake with whipped egg whites folded into the batter for an airy crumb. Filled and frosted with mocha frosting for a classic from-scratch celebration cake.

Golden apricot rice pudding baked in individual molds with a brown sugar and dried apricot bottom that becomes a caramel topping when unmolded. Elegant and simple.

Roasted butternut squash, rosemary, and garlic lasagne: a vegetarian fall pasta layered with roasted squash bechamel, parmesan, and a billowy whipped cream top that bakes into a golden crust.

Black-out cake with unsweetened chocolate buttermilk layers smothered in thick semi-sweet chocolate ganache and pressed with roasted almonds. Intensely rich and fudgy.

Chocolate Angel Food Cake with Vanilla Glaze recipe

Low-fat old-fashioned potato salad with red-skinned potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, celery, onion, and pickle relish in a nonfat sour cream and fat-free mayonnaise dressing with dry mustard.

Award-winning almond shortbread cookies with a buttery dent filled with homemade butterscotch frosting and topped with chopped pistachios. A 1986 classic.

Pasta Chimayo tosses penne in a smoky ancho chile cream sauce with tequila-flambéed shrimp. A New Mexican-meets-Italian fusion dish that brings serious restaurant flair to weeknight dinner.

Soft, buttery Cracker Barrel-style raisin cookies with sour cream, brown sugar, nutmeg, and plump soaked raisins. A nostalgic copycat recipe that tastes just like the original.

A proper bistro-style bread and butter pudding with layers of buttered French bread, raisins, and citrus zest baked in a rich custard of cream, eggs, and dark rum. Golden, crusty on top, silky underneath.

Magic lemon meringue pie thickens sweetened condensed milk with fresh lemon juice and zest, then bakes under a billowing meringue cap. Tart, creamy, and ready in under an hour.

Chocolate almond pie pours hot chocolate syrup over almond-cake batter in a pie shell. As it bakes, the layers separate magically into pudding bottom, cake top, with toasted almonds and chocolate shavings.

Orange blossom muffins: tender bakery-style muffins with sour cream, fresh orange juice, zest, and a splash of Grand Marnier. Brown sugar tops for a caramelized crackle finish.

Four cheese pasta with ground beef, stewed tomatoes, and scallions. Cream cheese, Swiss, cheddar, and Parmesan melt into a rich, gooey sauce over penne in 30 minutes.

Mutton Curry with a marinade of coriander, almonds, and garlic, slow-cooked with yogurt, saffron, cream, and garam masala. A Mughlai-style Indian curry finished in the oven.

Copycat Cinnabon cinnamon rolls made with a pudding-enriched dough for an ultra-soft, gooey crumb, rolled with brown sugar and cinnamon and finished three ways: cream cheese frosting, caramel-pecan sticky buns, or classic.