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Fudgy Brownies Recipe – Better Than the Box. How to make brownies that are better than the box.

Fudgy Brownies Recipe – Better Than the Box

Jump to the Easy, Fudgy Brownies Recipe or watch our quick recipe video showing you how easy it is to make them. Have you ever fallen in love with something all over again? We did and this recipe made it happen. Old-Fashioned Chocolate Frosting. I’m pretty sure something biological happened to me about the same time I became a mother.

Old-Fashioned Chocolate Frosting

At least that’s when I remember it happening. That was the point when I realized I couldn’t live without chocolate. I found myself thinking about chocolate, craving chocolate, scouring my pantry for spare chocolate chips that may have fallen out of a bag at some point and landed in some random corner. And I wouldn’t by any means call myself a chocolate snob (because I’m pretty sure anyone who makes that proclamation wouldn’t be on their hands and knees in the pantry looking for old chocolate chips) but I do have an appreciation for quality chocolate. And I don’t like it overloaded with sugar- the darker the better in my book. Chocolate Roulade with Burnt Sugar Italian Meringue Buttercream. Sometimes accidents are happy accidents.

Chocolate Roulade with Burnt Sugar Italian Meringue Buttercream

And such was the case when I burnt the sugar for my Italian Meringue buttercream filling for my Chocolate Roulade. As the sugar slowly climbed to temperature I turned my attention away for a mere moment to begin beating the egg white, and when I turned back the sugar had gone beyond temperature and turned golden and a lovely aroma of caramelised sugar surrounded me. Instead of throwing the sugar out and starting again, I thought I’d try a burnt sugar buttercream and see how it turned out. Rose's Famous Caramel Cake Recipe. Chocolate Coffee Ice Cream Cake recipe on Food52.com. Chocolate Coffee Ice Cream Cake. Every other Friday, we'll be sharing dessert projects that demand a little extra time and effort.

Chocolate Coffee Ice Cream Cake

Because weekends are the sweetest part of the week. Rainbow Cake. For Cake: 2 1/4 cups cake flour (9 ounces) 1 cup whole milk, at room temperature 6 large egg whites (3/4 cup), at room temperature 2 teaspoons almond extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar (12 1/4 ounces) 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon table salt 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food coloring For Frosting/Filling: 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar 10 large egg whites 2 pounds (8 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, softened 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 pound best-quality white chocolate, melted and cooled Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Rainbow Cake

Prepare your cake pans by first liberally buttering the pans, then line the bottoms with parchment paper rounds. Butter the rounds and set aside. Almond Cake with Orange-Flower Water Syrup recipe on Food52.com. Author Notes: I'm currently studying abroad in Strasbourg, France, so I thought it appropriate to make a classic French yogurt cake to keep around for breakfast.

Almond Cake with Orange-Flower Water Syrup recipe on Food52.com

In France, orange-flower water and almond meal are both a bit easier to come by than in the States, so I wanted to create a cake that would take advantage of "local" ingredients. I took a classic recipe, replaced half the flour with almond meal, topped the cake with slivered almonds, and then made a simple syrup inspired by Ina Garten's syrup used for her lemon loaf cake. The results are fragrant and moist, and even feel a bit virtuous (the almond flour and yogurt add protein of course). The cake keeps for days in the fridge. Feels perfect with the arrival of spring. - amusebouche (less)Author Notes: I'm currently studying abroad in Strasbourg, France, so I thought it appropriate to make a classic French yogurt cake to keep around for breakfast.

An Old-Fashioned Apple Spice Cake recipe on Food52.com. Author Notes: I asked for this recipe about 45 years ago from one of my mother's friends when we lived on an Air Force Base in Okinawa.

An Old-Fashioned Apple Spice Cake recipe on Food52.com

I had just begun to bake and the recipe is so easy that it was a success on my first try. With a few tweaks, I've been baking it ever since. Try to use a nice, flavorful apple like Granny Smith, Jonathan, MacIntosh, Rome or Paula Red. Clementine Pound Cake recipe on Food52.com. Author Notes: When you make this cake, you have to let it cool completely.

Clementine Pound Cake recipe on Food52.com

All the way. Almond Butter Honey Cake recipe on Food52.com. Author Notes: This almond butter honey cake came from the desire to make a snacking cake that is only lightly sweet.

Almond Butter Honey Cake recipe on Food52.com

Imagine a warm almond butter sandwich, with honey, made on whole-grain bread with browned crusts. (Except, in this case, the flours are all grain-free.) It's a late afternoon kind of cake, not a decadent airy cake meant for a birthday party. (less)Author Notes: This almond butter honey cake came from the desire to make a snacking cake that is only lightly sweet. Imagine a warm almond butter sandwich, with hone (…more) - glutenfreegirl Serves 8 This recipe is a Community Pick!

Popular on Food52 and Provisions. Tarta de Santiago (Galician Almond Cake) It's always more fun to DIY.

Tarta de Santiago (Galician Almond Cake)

Every week, we'll spare you a trip to the grocery store and show you how to make small batches of great foods at home. Today: Emma Gardner, the baker, writer, and photographer behind Poires au Chocolat, makes a Spanish almond cake with centuries of history behind it. In Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Tarta de Santiago is sold everywhere. Hot fudge sundae cake. I realize that given the sheer number of two and three-layered, springform-bound and buttercream-shellacked celebration cakes I keep in the archives, you’d imagine that I had some pretty spectacular birthday cakes growing up. You’d be correct, but they were almost never homemade, not because I was suffering from cake-neglect, but because the only one I requested every year for my birthday was an ice cream cake, preferably from Carvel.

Okay, insistently from Carvel, you know, the one in the strip mall at the end of the main road. Blackberry and Apple Cake Recipe. Enlarge Credit: James Oseland SERVES 8-10. Fresh Raspberry Cake. When I think about desserts in the summer, I want things that are easy to make and that really showcase some bright, summertime flavors. Easy to make desserts are nice year-round, of course, but in the summer I want to spend the evenings outside enjoying the nice weather – not working in the kitchen – and I also don’t want to leave the oven on for hours when I want the house to stay cool. This Fresh Raspberry Cake is a beautiful summer dessert that hits both of these nails right on the head. The cake is a tender, buttery cake that is packed with lots of fresh, ripe raspberries. The berries are arranged on the top of the cake before baking and the batter rises up to hold them in place as it bakes in the oven.

The result is a cake that looks like it is just packed with fruit – which it is – because it almost looks like a fruit cobbler. The cake batter is made with buttermilk and flavored with vanilla and a hint of lemon zest. Preheat oven to 350F. Serves 8-10. Hummingbird Cake Recipe. Cake 1 Preheat oven to 350° F. Lightly grease and flour three 9” round cake pans. 2 In a very large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg (optional). Vanilla Peach Muffins Recipe. - Sponsored Post - You only need one bowl to make these peach muffins with lightly spiced vanilla batter and ripe juicy peaches. Our recipe below makes muffins with large, domed tops — just like muffins you’ll find in many bakeries. They are very simple to make — simple enough to make in the morning for breakfast. You May Also Like: Check out a few more of our muffin recipes: Chocolate Chip Muffins, Bran Muffins and our popular Blueberry Muffins Recipe.

How to Make Our Peach Muffins Recipe These may be simple, but they don’t lack flavor. Pear, Chocolate & Cardamom Cake. Pears and chocolate. Candy Cane Cake. Do you get excited about Christmas? Blondies. Pain au Chocolat (Chocolate Croissant) Enlarge Credit: Todd Coleman MAKES 18 CROISSANTS 1 tbsp. yeast½ cup milk⅓ cup sugar1½ cups plus 2 tbsp. unsalted butter, barely softened, plus 3 tbsp., melted and cooled1 tbsp. powdered milk1 tbsp. kosher salt4 cups flour18 ½"-wide x 3"-long bittersweet chocolate bars1 egg mixed with 1 tbsp. water, for egg wash 1. Stir together yeast and ½ cup water heated to 115° together in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook; let sit until foamy, about 10 minutes. Heavenly Apple Cake. Jenny is in perpetual search for easy, weeknight recipes to attempt to feed her family. Heavenly Apple Cake recipe on Food52.com. Black Forest Cheesecake Trifles. When I was growing up in Tasmania our family Christmases were big.

Blueberry Cake recipe. Grain-Free Banana Bread. Every week, Shauna Ahern of Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef -- and Gluten-Free Girl Everyday -- will be sharing smart tips and smarter recipes that will please even the most devout gluten-eaters among us. Lemon Blueberry Ricotta Pound Cake Recipe. Olive Oil Ricotta Cake with Plums. If you're like us, you look to the seasons for what to cook. Get to the market, and we'll show you what to do with your haul. Today: A going away present, from plums, to you. And it all happens in one bowl. If this is the last thing you do with plums all year, you won't be sorry. This is the story of a buttoned-up little plum cake that was meant to be a freer, unfettered dessert of syrupy poached plums. And then one night I threw together this lovely book's one-bowl ricotta olive oil cake with a few editors you may know.

Raw, Vegan Strawberry Vanilla Cheesecake recipe on Food52.com. Elaine’s New York Cheesecake.