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
Desserts
Cakes, cookies, and everything worth turning the oven on for.
Cakes, cookies and puddings, weighted towards the easy desserts end — things you can make on a weeknight without a stand mixer.
Baking is the least forgiving kind of cooking, so these recipes are specific about the parts that matter: butter temperature, when to stop mixing, and what an underdone centre should look like.
Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding
Stovetop, stirred, and finished with egg yolks off the heat. Loose when it comes off, set by the time it reaches the table.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies
Three ingredients, eight minutes, six cookies at a time. No flour and no oven to heat.
- Total time
- 18 min
- Yield
- Makes 18 cookies
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