There aren’t many recipes that send me excitedly running to the kitchen these days, but this one? The moment I saw it, it was on. And I knew it would be delicious, I just knew, because the cardboard taste of matzo just doesn’t stand a chance against an aggressive coating of melted butter, maple syrup, [...]

I’d had my eye on these brownies for a while. Since Valentine’s Day, to be precise, when I thought of making them but ultimately chickened out because the absence of butter made me too nervous. Instead, I made Melissa Clark’s other brownie recipe, which is magnificently awesome, my current favorite. These brownies were never far [...]

Remember when Gourmet folded and finished out the remainder of our subscriptions with issues of Bon Appetit? Well this is the one recipe I took away from that short-lived Bon Appetit subscription. (I declined to continue it but for some reason have had this intense longing for food magazines lately and so I might reconsider. It’ll [...]

No one wants to look at cookies right now, I know I know I know. It’s officially diet and exercise season. But I suspect that some peoples’ resolutions for the new year included being more organized, planning ahead, and procrastinating less, and so this is how I’ll spin the macaroons: it’s never too early to [...]

When I was little, my nickname for my father’s mother was “Rum Ball Grandma” because of these sweet little bombs of rum-spiked chocolate she’d make. There seemed to always be a cache of them in the freezer, and they were my favorite thing to eat at her house, in addition to the See’s lollipops and [...]

Just in time for the first icy blast of winter (not the current one, mind you, but the first one that hit about two weeks ago), I made this tropical pie. Not making this pie was never an option. When I first saw the recipe, I got superexcited and mentally bookmarked it for the winter, [...]

I was dying while making these. Just trembling with excitement and anticipation with each disgusting, I mean delicious, layer. Layer 1: melted butter; layer 2: crushed-up shortbread cookies (and so just to clarify, we now have buttery shortbread cookies soaking in melted butter); layer 3: sweetened shredded coconut; layer 4: chopped pecans; layer 5: top-quality dark [...]

If I make a recipe twice in the span of three weeks, you know it’s a keeper, especially if I don’t make any adjustments. I love these things. Not only are they absolutely delicious, with a hint of almond in the crust, a cherry filling that’s the perfect balance of sweet and tart, and a [...]