The easiest Christmas sweet imaginable — two layers of chocolate topped with crushed peppermints. It's festive, delicious, and requires no baking, just a little melting and time in the refrigerator.
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A homemade mix that produces hot chocolate with a smooth creamy texture and a pure chocolate flavor thanks to the combined power of the cocoa powder and the semisweet chocolate, balanced out by a hint of vanilla.
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This is gingerbread at its best -- incredibly moist and fluffy with a deep caramel-y flavor thanks to the molasses, which highlights the (many!) cozy spices perfectly
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A Christmas-y fudge recipe that requires you only to melt and stir the ingredients together and pour them in to a pan, no special cooking method or tools required.
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Risotto all dressed up for Fall, with sweet roasted butternut squash, plus pancetta and lots of freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
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A soup that manages to be filling but not too heavy, full of healthy ingredients like white beans, turkey, and spinach. Bonus: a great solution for any leftover Thanksgiving turkey you might have in your fridge.
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Don’t let appearances deceive you — what may seem like a plain cake is actually packed with melty pockets of chocolate, juicy pears, and toasty brown butter.
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My favorite stuffing recipe, complete with tart green apple, sweet dried apricots, and savory sausage.
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Pancakes perfect for a chilly Fall morning, offering an incentive to get out from under the covers and warming in a way that your usual cereal or yogurt could never be. These pancakes are fluffier and thicker than your typical pancake thanks to the addition of the pumpkin, and are packed with pumpkin’s usual sidekicks -- ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
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Vanilla cake layers plus a creamy, sweet-tart mascarpone raspberry frosting and a smooth, Nutella tinged frosting. Need I say more?
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Pumpkin pie meets gingbread in this spicy autumnal cake, perfect baked in a loaf, as muffins, or as a cake topped with frosting.
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My Aunt Laura’s beloved, tried and true, and quite nearly famous recipe for perfect chocolate chip cookies.
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One of my most-baked recipes on the blog — a braided buttery, sweet, cake-y bread, absolutely addictive eaten warm out of the oven with butter or jam.
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French toast baked in the oven like bread pudding, much easier than frying slice by slice and just as delicious. Plus, the presentation of these French toasts is really nice – they puff up like soufflés when they first come out of the oven, and everyone gets their own ramekin.
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Here the olive oil, brie, and tomatoes combine to make a fantastic no cook sauce, and the longer you let the ingredients marinate, the better the sauce becomes. The brie is an unusual touch to the pasta – usually mozzarella would be the traditional accompaniment to the basil and tomato combination, but it switches things up a bit and gives the dish a nice richness.
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The solution to any bagel cravings that may strike in Italy — homemade bagels with a perfectly chewy crust and soft interior, that toast perfectly and are far easier to make than you might think.
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The icebox cake is a cake that requires no cooking or baking.; you simply layer cookies with whipped cream, and leave it in the refrigerator overnight, where the cookies magically soften and mix with the cream.
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Classic basil pesto, made with pine nuts, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and a good dose of olive oil.
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A slight variation on the classic strawberry shortcake and a perfect combination of juicy tart berries, sweet billowy whipped cream, and crumbly buttery biscuits.
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