Twelve cookies, one pound of chocolate chips–sounds like a good ratio to me. For these cookies, some of the chocolate chips are melted a...

Hot fudge sauce, truffle filling, fudge frosting, or chocolate glaze—whatever you call this butter, cream, and chocolate combination, you...

Each of the ingredients In this recipe helps to make a consistently successful crust. The butter adds flavor and the vegetable shortening...

Bring on the tastes of spring. It’s time for artichokes, peas, green beans, and new potatoes, and the fresh dill, parsley, and lemon to s...

Black beans and tomatoes form the base for this rich vegetarian chili filling. The batter for the topping is seasoned with some of the ve...

This was a huge hit when I brought it as my contribution to a potluck dinner. I baked it before I left home and served it room temperatu...

This batter produces a light, moist dark chocolate cupcake. As all good basic chocolate cupcakes should, these have flat tops, perfect fo...

Chocolate mousse—very generous. Fudge topping—very thick. Chocolate cupcake—very dark. End result—sensational.The chocolate mousse in the...

This could also be called the “miracle crust.” Flour, salt, butter, sour cream, and a little baking soda for extra lift are all it takes ...

These cupcakes have wings. A slice is cut from the top of each one and a creamy filling is mounded on the cupcakes, then the slices are h...

Lemon curd is a thick, smooth lemon butter sauce that can be used as a sauce, filling, or topping, or even mixed with whipped cream to ma...

If ever a cupcake was made for pure fun, it is this one. Kids and grown-ups alike will get a kick out of eating a fudge brownie cupcake c...

The cream cheese frosting on these deep golden orange cupcakes is decorated with a spiderweb design that is surprisingly easy to make. Th...

Adding cream cheese to a powdered sugar frosting produces a not-too-sweet frosting that has a pleasant cream cheese flavor. It is soft, b...

There are chocolate chip cookies that have only chocolate chips and those that also include nuts, but these cookies have the whole sheban...

These brownies cover all the bases. Underneath a fudge brownie is a layer of chocolate chips, and underneath the chocolate chips is a lay...

Sweet white chocolate and unsweetened coffee perfectly complement each other in these coffee-flavored blondies. Creating a decorative des...

Lemon zest packs a real punch when you want to add lemon flavor. These cookies and their filling get their powerful lemon flavor from the...

Even butterscotch blondie brownies can become cookies. Simply drop this blondie batter onto a cookie sheet to produce brown sugar butters...

My daughter has a friend, Joe Siewers, whose mother, Betty, makes the best strawberry jam I have ever tasted. So it came as no surprise ...

These are the macaroons that ended my quest for thick mounds of moist-on-the-inside and crisp-on-the-outside coconut macaroons. Dipping t...

These rectangular cookies mimic the shape and ridged texture of an old-fashioned washboard. Toasted coconut adds crunch to the crisp cook...

Bumps are a good characteristic in these cookies: they signal that there are lots of chewy pieces of dried figs buried in them. The top o...

The dough for these cookies is formed into a large slab, chilled, and then sliced into nice uniform smaller slabs for baking. The slice-a...

Try this Russian classic for your fanciest party. The baking dish holds a mounded filling of poached salmon, mushrooms, and hard-boiled ...

My mother was famous in our family for her brown sugar chocolate chip cake. As many times as she made it during my childhood or shipped i...

This is a true potpie. Both the chicken filling and the dumpling topping are cooked and served in the cooking pot. With chunks of cooked ...

Cooking chicken and making chicken broth is a two-for-one process. They can be cooked at the same time in one pot. The idea is to add sea...

My potpie version of the Greek cheese and spinach turnover called spanakopita loads the traditional filling with ricotta, feta, Jack chee...

Chicken curry may sound exotic for a potpie filling, but this curry simply seasons pieces of boneless chicken breast with Indian spices a...

Ease of mixing and tenderness are the main characteristics of this crust. It’s as simple to prepare as the most basic cookie dough and th...

Think of this as a loaded-with-filling submarine sandwich, but one that is assembled and baked as a potpie. That will give you some idea ...