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Southern Living. 14 of 31 The Ultimate Carrot Cake Recipe: The Ultimate Carrot Cake Carrot cakes are as close as it gets to ancient history, in one form or another.

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But the decadent versions that Southerners love today, speckled with ingredients like pecans, coconut, pineapple, and spices, really took off after World War II. Alice Waters’s Cranberry Upside-Down Cake Recipe. Dark Chocolate Walnut Pomegranate Clusters Recipe. Chocolate Hummus Is Better Than Cookie Dough—Here’s How to Make it at Home. This may be the best strawberry pie recipe ever. Sometimes dessert doesn’t get any better than fresh, summer fruit piled high in a tender pie crust.

This may be the best strawberry pie recipe ever

It’s one of the simplest ways to showcase the best the season has to offer. "This time of year, I really like to make things that don't require a lot of oven time. There's so much great fruit around, you don't need to do much to show it off," says pastry chef Roxana Jullapat. She shares her recipe for vintage strawberry pie, using sweet, perfectly ripened berries from the farmers market. Pumpkin Cheesecake Snickerdoodles. Peach-Ginger Galette with Hazelnuts. Make the galette dough: Combine the flour, sugar, ground ginger, and salt in a food processor and pulse to combine.

Peach-Ginger Galette with Hazelnuts

Scatter the chilled butter pieces around the bowl and pulse in 1-second bursts just until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Drizzle the water evenly over the crumbs and process just until the dough is moist but still extremely crumbly, about 5 seconds. Turn the dough onto a work surface and press it into a 6-inch disk. Wrap the disk in plastic and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 1 hour. Make the topping: In a small bowl, combine the chopped hazelnuts, brown sugar, and flour with a fork until blended. Fill and bake the galette: Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven; heat the oven to 425°F. Meanwhile, make the filling. Remove the dough from the fridge. Put the galette in the oven and immediately reduce the heat to 400°F. Serve warm or at room temperature with a scoop of vinilla ice cream or a dollop of lightly sweetened whipped cream if you like. Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe - Classic Baking Recipes.

When she has the kitchen all to herself, Phyllis Grant of Dash and Bella cooks beautiful iterations of what solo meals were always meant to be: exactly what you want, when and where you want them.

Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe - Classic Baking Recipes

Today: A cookie with the perfect combination of fat, flavor, and comfort. Who needs detox? Year round, my freezer is a treasure trove of sweet treats. Often, when friends come over, they walk right past me, head into the kitchen, and start foraging around until ahhhh yes they find what they’re looking for: chocolate chip cookies. They take a huge bite and sigh out a thing or two from this list: She Runs, She Eats: apple-bottom gingerbread recipe. I suppose gingerbread is more of a winter flavor, but I'm just not feeling pumpkin this season.

She Runs, She Eats: apple-bottom gingerbread recipe

Rustic Plum Tart Recipe. Apple Crisp I Recipe. Blood Orange and Clementine Galette /  pitchfork diaries. BLOOD ORANGE AND CLEMENTINE GALETTEwith Cardamom Creme Anglaise by Catie 4 blood oranges 2 clementine or tangerines zest of 1/2 of a lemon 1/2 + 1/4 teaspoon of sugar, plus more for sprinkling on crust 1 pie crust pastry (I used the recipe using eggs) egg wash Pie Crust: Makes one single pie crust.

Blood Orange and Clementine Galette /  pitchfork diaries

(see instructions for making pie crust here.) 1 1/2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 oz (1 stick) unsalted butter, cubed and chilled (or popped in freezer for 15 minutes after cut into cubes) 1/4 cup water, ice cold, or more if necessary OR 1 large egg with 2 teaspoons of water, or more if necessary Egg Wash 1 egg mixed with 1 tablespoon of water Heat oven to 400 ° F. Gingered Lemon Bars Recipe. Method Alden and Reilly1 Pre-bake the crust.

Gingered Lemon Bars Recipe

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter. Add 1/3 cup of sifted powdered sugar, and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in half a teaspoon of the lemon zest, the ground ginger, the crystallized ginger, and a pinch of salt. 2 Spread the crust batter evenly over the bottom of a 13x9-inch baking dish. Tart Key Lime Squares. 158 (about 9 squares) Two pound bags of key limes were on sale this week and I couldn't resist making these squares.

Tart Key Lime Squares

They are very easy to make... you just need a bit of patience to squeeze all of those tiny limes.. but the effort is well worth it. The One Pie Dough to Rule Them All. Is it hubris to call this a perfect pie dough recipe?

The One Pie Dough to Rule Them All

Well, it is perfect. And do you know what’s perfect about it? You can do it too. Yes, YOU. I don’t care what kind of sordid, tragic past you’ve had with other pie dough recipes. Forget all the pernickety details everyone tells you about how to make a pie dough.