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Vegan Banana Bread
If you’ve never tried to bake anything before, this is a great place to start. (You don’t even need a cake pan!) And if you’re an expert in the kitchen, you’ll be delighted with this quick bread that’s as tender as cake. Overripe bananas not only deliver their deep sweetness, but also bind together the batter made from pantry ingredients. With neither dairy nor eggs, this treat tastes like the purest form of banana bread and also ends up being vegan. You can skip the crunchy topping or swap in your favorite nuts, or black or white sesame seeds. You also can stir a cup of mini chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate into the batter before baking to take this from breakfast treat to dessert.
Birthday Cake Blondies
Think of these as a starter birthday cake to make for friends — they travel well and feel like a party wherever you’re handing them out. Despite the sheet of sprinkles coating the top, these blondies aren’t cloyingly sweet. The batter has just enough brown sugar for a gentle butterscotch richness and a good hit of salt. Toasted at the edges and chewy in the center, these bars also have tiny crackles of caramelized sprinkles throughout.
One-Bowl Chocolate Cake
Fluffy and tender, this chocolate cake comes together quickly in one bowl. It’s a friendly little birthday cake with its dead simple frosting (or a really great snack without). A blend of oil and buttermilk or yogurt keeps the crumb moist, as does a nice pour of hot tea. Oolong gives the cake a floral aroma, while using coffee instead highlights the cocoa’s bittersweetness. Plain hot water gives this an old-fashioned chocolate cake flavor. The two-ingredient frosting – essentially cream and chocolate melted together, then cooled until thick enough to swoop and swirl – can be made in the same bowl used for the cake batter. You can sprinkle flaky salt, chopped toasted nuts or sprinkles on top too. But, frosted or not, this cake welcomes coffee, tea or ice cream.
Chunky Chocolate Cookies
Crisp at the edges and soft in the center, this chocolate cookie is lumpy with hooks of broken pretzels and melty chocolate chips. Built on a foundation of beating an egg with sugar until pale and full of tiny bubbles, it combines all the satisfying richness of a brownie with an almost airy lightness. Baking soda also helps lift the dense, dark dough in the oven. Once out, the craggy rounds deliver the irresistible pair of salty crunch and creamy sweetness in the tender, chocolaty cookie. You can switch-up the mix-ins with whatever you like: chocolate chunks, peanut butter chips, toffee bits, nuts or a combination. Just use a cup total for this amount of dough. And do consider keeping the pretzels no matter what else you throw in. Those little hits of salt turn perfectly good cookies into great ones.
Fruit Crumble
The buttery blend of oats and nuts in this easy, warm dessert stays nubby and crunchy while baking over the juicy fruit. (It also happens to be gluten-free.) A chai spice blend is especially nice in the mix, but other sweet-leaning spices like cinnamon and cardamom taste just as good. Any blend of fruit works, and keeping the peel on apples, pears and stone fruit not only streamlines the preparation but also adds a pleasant chewiness. If you want to go all berry, stick with fresh options; frozen fruit ends up too wet. (Thawed frozen berries work just fine with a mix of sturdy fresh apples and pears, though.) You don’t have to serve a warm bowl of this crumble with ice cream, but you probably want that creaminess swirling into the jammy fruit.
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PB&J
The perfect PB&J has an ideal ratio of peanut butter to jelly, a particular bread thickness, and a deliberate construction. Here's the explanation.
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Chip Butty
The chip butty, a sandwich of fried potatoes on buttered, untoasted white bread, is a staple at fish and chip shops across the United Kingdom—and is the sandwich you never knew you needed.
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British Chips
Shatteringly crisp with a soft, fluffy interior, British chips are something of a marvel when done right, and are especially delicious when you season them liberally with a dash of salt and malt vinegar.
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Bread Pakora (Potato Fritter Sandwich)
Dipped in a chickpea flour batter and fried, these turmeric and chile-spiced potato sandwiches are a favorite snack for many across India, where they’re a popular street food and also frequently made at home.
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Vada Pav (Indian Deep-Fried Potato Balls on Rolls)
To make vada pav—one of Mumbai's most popular snacks—layer spiced, deep-fried potato balls with savory garlic and a bright cilantro and mint chutney.
One-Bowl Molasses-Chocolate Cake
This simple recipe, rich with chocolate chips and earthy molasses, is both forgiving and budget-friendly. It gets much of its moisture and fat from oil, which has a number of benefits. First, oil-based cakes also keep wonderfully, staying moist and delicious – sometimes even tasting better – after a few days at room temperature or in the refrigerator. But, best of all, its reliance on oil means that the batter comes together in one bowl and quickly. Bake it today, and serve it alongside a milky tea or coffee.
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Shokupan (Japanese Milk Bread)
After experimenting with various flours and methods, I've finally landed on a foolproof recipe. Here's the science behind how to make a gorgeous, tender, and long-lasting loaf.
Homemade Pop-Tarts
These adorable D.I.Y. Pop-Tarts are a bit more work than the original toaster pastries, which were created by Kellogg in the 1960s as a sort of all-in-one, portable toast and jam, but making them at home means you can customize the fillings and toppings to suit your fancy. You can use two rounds (about 14 ounces) of store-bought pie dough for the pastry, but this cream cheese version is easy to put together and even easier to work with. If it starts to get too soft while you’re rolling and cutting it, pop it into the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes and try again. This recipe includes a quick berry jam for the filling, but you can use about 3/4 cup store-bought jam, too. Peanut butter and jelly would be pretty great, as would chocolate-hazelnut spread. These keep well stored in an airtight container for about a week. Wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, they also freeze like a dream for up to 3 months.
Whole-Wheat Za’atar Flatbreads
These herb-smeared flatbreads can be an ideal snack or appetizer with (or without) a little labneh or feta, or they can accompany a main course. The dough is easy to mix by hand, preferably several hours in advance of baking to let it hydrate and mature and allow gluten to develop. Za’atar, a lightly salted spice blend containing wild thyme, sumac and sesame, makes a delicious topping. Though you can make your own, it’s worth a trip to a Middle Eastern grocery where many different versions are sold.
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Pengat Pisang (Malaysian Banana Coconut Soup)
Lightly sweetened with palm sugar, pengat pisang—a delightful Malaysian dessert with pleasantly chewy sago pearls, bananas, and rich coconut milk—is the best kind of afternoon pick-me-up.
Ricotta Toast With Roasted Grapes
In this sophisticated take on ricotta toast, Raquel Villanueva Dang, the chef of Baby’s Kusina and Market in Philadelphia, roasts grapes with fresh thyme and salt until the skins pucker and the flesh grows slouchy, verging on collapse. Taste and texture become almost one: jammy and louche, with a tinge of dark wine. She tumbles the grapes over velvety whipped ricotta, with hunks of sourdough on the side. Deepening the contrast of flavors is a salty-sweet glaze of balsamic vinegar cooked down with honey and fish sauce, a nod to her Filipino heritage. If you like, add 1/4 teaspoon mushroom seasoning (an umami-rich blend of pulverized dried mushrooms and salt) to the grapes before roasting, to lend earthiness, and finish the ricotta with a flourish of flaky sea salt and scattered torn mint for a touch of freshness and color.
Sopapillas
Crispy, golden-brown pillows that are sweet or savory, sopapillas are a traditional New Mexican fried dough made with only five ingredients: flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and shortening. The dish is rooted in the American Southwest, where Hispanic, Spanish and Native American cultures converge. Sopapillas, also spelled sopaipillas, can be stuffed with braised meat, New Mexican chiles or cheese and served as a meal or snack, or the entire pastry can be drizzled with honey for dessert, as it is here. To ensure maximum puffiness, roll the dough out thinly, and the oil should be very hot. Sopapillas are best served right after frying.
Peanut Butter Noodles
This nutty midnight pasta is a dream to cook, as it requires just a handful of pantry staples and one pot. Peanut butter (the less fancy, the better) anchors a creamy sauce swathed in umami. Accentuated by a good, salty Parmesan, these noodles recall those cheesy peanut butter sandwich crackers. They make an ideal dinner for one, but the amounts can easily be doubled or quadrupled as needed. For an equally gripping vegan alternative, try swapping out the butter for olive oil and the cheese for nutritional yeast.
Granny’s Five-Flavor Pound Cake
Golden with a fine crumb, this pound cake smells amazing while it’s baking and tastes just as intoxicating once sliced. It’s comforting with its buttery softness and complex with its blend of five extracts (vanilla, rum, coconut, lemon and almond). The celebrity chef Carla Hall got this recipe, among other beloved soul food dishes, from her maternal grandmother, Jessie Mae Price. This family dessert was served at every Christmas celebration in Tennessee and wrapped and shipped off to the grandchildren as well. It’s a keeping cake, the kind that tastes even better over time, and meant to be shared. Ms. Hall wanted to recreate the tenderness that her granny achieved through sifted cake flour without sending home cooks to the store for yet another ingredient, so she swapped in some cornstarch instead. If you don’t have that in your pantry, using only all-purpose flour works just fine too, as does any combination of extracts you can find or have on hand.
Crumpets
Recognizable by its distinctive holes, a crumpet is a spongy bread that is cooked on a griddle or in a skillet, rather than baked in the oven. Crumpets differ from English muffins in that their texture is pleasantly spongy and chewy, a result of two leaveners (active dry yeast and baking powder). Typically eaten for breakfast or as a snack, crumpets are traditionally slathered with butter and sweet or savory condiments like jam or Marmite. They’re arguably as simple to make as pancakes, but you’ll need 3½-inch crumpet or English muffin rings to contain the runny batter when you add it to a hot skillet. The crumpets will cook until browned underneath and perforated with tiny holes all over the top; adjust the heat as necessary so the crumpets don’t brown too much on the bottom before they are cooked through.
Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
When you bite into one of these chocolate-covered strawberries, the shell will snap audibly and crack with a crisp, satisfying sharpness before pooling on your tongue as it melts. By tempering the chocolate, essentially melting and cooling it to the right temperature, it forms a delicate shell that yields to juicy berries. This type of stabilized chocolate is glossy and doesn’t melt at room temperature. The easiest way to temper chocolate at home for candy making, as this recipe does, is to melt a portion of store-bought bar chocolate in the microwave or in a bowl set over recently simmered water, and to then cool it down by stirring in more unmelted chocolate (called seed chocolate). There’s no need for a candy thermometer because you can rely on your senses: The chocolate is ready for dipping when it’s just a touch warmer than your bottom lip.
Microwave Chocolate Pudding Cake
Making a cake in the microwave may not be traditional, but it makes the whole process easy and superfast — and this recipe produces a warm, gooey, pudding-like dessert. Simply mix the cake ingredients together, top with the cocoa, sugar and boiling water, and microwave on high. (Don’t forget to take the ice cream out of the freezer to soften slightly while the cake cooks.) In the microwave, the bottom sets into a supermoist chocolate cake while the topping transforms into a rich chocolate sauce. As microwaves and dish size can vary, knowing when to pull the cake out is the only tricky part. It’s done when you can see a firm cake start to bubble to the surface. Don’t worry: A little underdone is just fine, too. This dessert will continue to set a bit while it cools. The instant coffee is optional but it really does add depth to the chocolate flavor.
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Creamy, Nutty Coffee Smoothie
Made with coffee ice cubes, coffee yogurt, sweetened condensed milk, and almond butter, this smoothie is nutty and creamy, with bold flavor to help you kickstart the day.
Stromboli
Swirls of cured meats and cheeses, all wound up in pizza dough, this classic Italian-American party snack may appear more intimidating to make than it is in reality. Here, store-bought pizza dough makes this stromboli a beginner-friendly recipe: Simply roll it out thinly, add layers of deli meats and cheeses and roll it into a log. Customize the fillings however you’d like — swap the deli meats with prosciutto or salami, or even sautéed mushrooms for a vegetarian version (just make sure that both the dough and the fillings are thin so the stromboli bakes evenly). Serve warm, with marinara or pizza sauce on the side for dipping.