Serves 16

Hungry Mother, in the Yankee bastion of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leader in the national Southern-restaurant tre...

Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito worked together to create this stupendous holiday dessert, a twist on the classic, el...

These delightful nut bars, inspired by a recipe from Ken Oringer's mother-in-law, are both gooey and crisp. Oring...

The secret to Hot Bread Kitchen's richly flavorful tortillas is the masa made from freshly ground blue or white corn....

Karen DeMasco's crumbly soft, jammy-sweet bars travel well, so they're ideal for school bake sales. She says, "They a...

A stuffed cookie is like a sandwich cookie, only with more cream on the inside—it's fatter, fuller and (if you're the...

Grace Parisi's crumbly, ultra-peanutty cookies require only four ingredients: puffed-corn cereal, peanut butter cups,...

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A recipe by cookbook author Eileen Yin-Fei Lo inspired Marcia Kiesel to transform beef tenderloin into a deliciously ...

Spritz cookies are buttery Scandinavian sweets made by forcing ("spritzing") dough through a press, creating fun shap...

This gumbo from chef-owner Donald Link of Herbsaint in New Orleans owes its flavor to the roux, a mix of flour and oi...

These ingeniously moist muffins from baker Jennifer Musty are rich in calcium and low in fat. Slideshow: More Health...

These buttery individual pound cakes get their intense citrus flavor from a double glazing of lemon syrup.

The classic chicken salad can be bolstered with any number of seasonings, from curry powder or mustard to harissa. To...

San Francisco chocolatier Michael Recchiuti prepared the gooey marshmallow topping for this exquisite chocolate cake ...

Chef Way A staple at Todd English's Olives restaurants is his much-lauded house-made flatbread, topped with sticky-sw...

The Good News The crunchy, almondy topping for these clever bars is loaded with vitamin E. The filling is chewy like ...

To create the layered flatbread called mahlouach, Michael Solomonov relies on a technique similar to one used to make...

You can use store-bought pralines to make the crust for this fluffy cheesecake, but Big Sugar's quick praline recipe ...