Fruit Pizza Cookies
Sugar cookie bases, cream cheese frosting, fresh fruit on top. Assembled within an hour of eating.
- Total time
- 1 hr 42 min
- Yield
- Makes 16
Baking
Anything that needs an oven and a timer.
Anything that needs an oven and a timer. Weights first, because baking is the one kind of cooking where a cup measurement genuinely changes the result.
Every recipe here names the failure it is prone to — cookies that spread, bars that crumble when cut — and what causes it.
Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
One oat mixture, used twice — pressed as a base and crumbled on top. Cut them cold or they fall apart.
- Total time
- 3 hr
- Yield
- Makes 12 bars
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
A Depression-era cake that stays damp for four days. The mayonnaise is the eggs and the oil, and you will never taste it.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Yield
- One 9-inch cake, 12 slices
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy in the middle, crisp at the rim, with oats you can still see. The dough rests overnight and it matters.
- Total time
- 12 hr 32 min
- Yield
- Makes 24 cookies