Recipes

A quick sauté renders baby kale leaves perfectly tender, allowing them to almost melt into the buttermilk-enriched béchamel in chef and cookbook author Alexander Smalls' riff on mac and cheese. For a smooth sauce, make sure all of the dairy is at room temperature.

Pouring the batter into a hot skillet ensures a perfectly cooked, dark golden–bottomed crust with a fluffy, golden interior. To check for doneness, rely on the visual cues for browning—a cake tester will come out clean before the cake is cooked through.

This cream cheese frosting is made with butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and confectioners' sugar for a rich and smooth topping on cakes.

At Convivial in Washington, D.C., Cedric Maupillier's foot-long quiche takes this breakfast classic to the next level. This version, prepared in a rimmed baking sheet, makes plenty for the whole family.

After failing to find the perfect recipe for buttercream frosting, I found one that worked for me and then added my own two cents.

We use molasses-steeped strawberries to make a breakfast that's balanced with sour, sweet, and bitter flavors.

This whipped cream recipe shows you how to make sweetened whipped cream that holds its shape. For best results make sure the whisk and bowl are ice cold.

For Jing Gao, owner of the cult Sichuan food company Fly by Jing, making these fresh hand-pulled noodles, doused in garlic, ginger, chile, and cumin, is as natural as breathing. A final pour of sizzling-hot oil is all you need to bloom the flavor of the seasonings. Watch Jing make this dish (and more!) in her episode of Chefs at Home.

This frosting recipe is great with Black Forest cake or any other cake. Pair this icing with cherry pie filling and your favorite chocolate cake for a delicious Black Forest cake.

This recipe takes the flavors of banana bread and turns them into a super-moist sheet cake. The crunchy, nutty streusel topping balances out the sweet cake, which gets finished with a boozy rum glaze for even more flavor. To make it in advance, prepare the cake up until step 4 and then glaze it day-of. The cooled cake can be covered loosely with plastic wrap at room temperature for up to 2 days.

This super-fast sauce comes together in just minutes and makes a next-level topping for Lena Sareini's Brown-Butter Banana Bread. Chunks of sweet, ripe banana get pureed into the cooked caramel, yielding a thick, rich sauce that amplifies the rich flavor of the banana bread.

Crème pâtissière, sometimes shortened to creme pat, is a rich and creamy vanilla pastry cream or thick custard that has the perfect consistency for filling eclairs, cream puffs, and fruit tarts.

These Boston cream pie cupcakes are everything you love about Boston cream pie—the fluffy vanilla cake, pastry cream filling, and rich chocolate frosting—just in miniature form!

Stabilized whipped cream holds up longer on desserts because it doesn't separate. Gelatin stiffens the whipped cream and makes the texture seem fuller and slightly spongy. It's perfect for topping a sweet pie with rosettes or to frost a cake.

This German chocolate cake frosting makes the perfect coconut pecan topping for German chocolate cake.

You don't have to make a Williamsburg orange cake to enjoy this creamy and buttery Williamsburg frosting made with orange liqueur and orange zest.