Cocoa brownies have the softest center and chewiest candylike top "crust" of all because all of the fat in the recipe (except for a small amount of cocoa butter in the cocoa) is butter, and all of the...
Author: Alice Medrich
Author: Molly Wizenberg
More than 30 years ago, Michael McCarty opened Michaels, in Santa Monica, and quickly established himself as a pioneer of California cuisine. In one of his sunny interpretations of French classics, he...
Author: Melissa Roberts
Author: Rick Rodgers
Author: Sybil Ruth Kaplan
Cinnamon-nut streusel tops an orange-scented muffin packed with cranberries and pecans-at every altitude, this is an unbeatable combination.
Author: Susan G. Purdy
Author: Nancie McDermott
We make the shells for these tarts with packaged graham cracker crumbs to save time. If your brown sugar contains hard lumps, force it through a sieve before using. Otherwise, it won't dissolve in the...
Author: Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez
Author: Alain Rondelli
Author: Mary Jo Thoresen
Chef Kris Wessel of Florida Cookery in Miami Beach, Florida, shared this recipe as part of a Palm Tree Christmas menu he created exclusively for Epicurious. At Wessel family Christmases at Grandmother...
Author: Kris Wessel
Author: Susan Herrmann Loomis
This moist cake keeps beautifully for a day or two after you make it.
Author: Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez
Author: Andrea Albin
Top-of-season asparagus is enhanced only by a little olive-oil cooking spray and salt in a simple and sensational side dish.
Author: Liza Davies
Author: Melissa Roberts
This layer cake was a standard in our house. This recipe is a very old one that people could keep in their heads because of the utter simplicity of the formula that gave the cake its name-1 cup of butter,...
Author: James Beard
To heighten the toffee flavor, substitute toffee baking bits for half of the chopped almonds.
Author: Barbara Grunes
My dad grew up in the Bronx of the 1920s and was very fond of the yeasty crumb cakes found in many German-Jewish bakeries there. He calls the moist, tender cakes "crumb buns" and loves to eat them with...
Author: Ruth Cousineau
Alexis Watson of Irvine, California, writes: "You could say I'm a bit obsessive when it comes to cooking. Often I'll take a particular recipe and spend months perfecting it, as I've done with the crème...
Author: Alexis Watson
Author: Larraine Perri