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Broken Phyllo Cake with Orange and Bay
The soaking syrup we use in this pudding-like citrus cake is infused with warm spices for added dimensions of flavor and fragrance.
By Rose HattabaughJanuary 5, 2022
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Emergency Chocolate Cake
This ultra-easy chocolate cake, made without eggs, milk and butter, is also known as crazy cake because it doesn’t require ingredients standard to most cakes. It’s said to originate during the Great Depression when ingredients were scarce—hence anothe
By Rose HattabaughOctober 14, 2025
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Browned Butter Madeleines
At Jouvence restaurant in Paris, chef Romain Thibault is known for his warm, made-to-order madeleines, which feature a delicious contrast of delicately crisp exterior and rich, custardy-cakey crumb. Thibault uses browned butter, almond flour, and grat
By Rose HattabaughNovember 21, 2025
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Japanese Cheesecake
This hybrid of sponge cake and classic cheesecake goes by multiple names, including Japanese cheesecake, cotton cheesecake and soufflé cheesecake. The understated, light yet rich confection is defined by a fluffy, airy texture—known as fuwa fuwa in Ja
By Dawn YanagiharaJuly 8, 2025
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Chocolate and Tahini Babka
Jewish-style babkas originated as a way to utilize leftover challah dough. To keep the pastry kosher, no dairy was allowed, so both the dough and filling typically were oil-based. These days, bakeries across the globe have reinvented the classic, craf
By Rose HattabaughAugust 30, 2024
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Potato and Herb Focaccia
This potato focaccia is impossibly easy and incredibly tender, with flavor infused in the potatoes and the dough.
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Portuguese Sponge Cake (Pão de Ló)
Portugal's famously airy, eggy cake with a gooey layer underneath a thin withered crust.
By Rose HattabaughFebruary 5, 2021
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Chocolate-Almond Spice Cookies
From Switzerland, an easier, chewier chocolate cookie.
By Albert StummOctober 8, 2018
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Italian Flourless Chocolate Torta
A deeply chocolatey flourless cake, devised from a century-and-a-half-old secret recipe from Vignola, Italy.
By Rose HattabaughJune 11, 2021
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Tahini Swirl Brownies
The duo of dark chocolate and cocoa powder gave these brownies depth, and the vanilla enhanced the flavor of both of them. The combination of tahini and sugar replicates the sweet sesame flavor of halvah candy but was easier to work with—and to find.
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Tomato-Olive Focaccia
The world’s best focaccia comes from Bari, Italy, where oozing buckets of dough bake up into an impossibly airy, tender crumb. OR A recreation of a light, open-crumbed focaccia from Bari, Italy, with tomatoes and olives melded in the crust.
By Diane UngerJanuary 21, 2024
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Kolaches
“The best Danish in the world is a kolache,” writes Milk Street’s Shaula Clark—after whipping up several batches of these pillowy, savory or sweet treats, we are inclined to agree.
By Rose HattabaughOctober 3, 2023
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Coconut Cashew Cake (Sanwin Makin)
Our lighter, springier version of Burma’s simple, richly coconut-y cake.
By Yvonne RupertiDecember 11, 2017
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Romanian Crème Fraîche Cake (Lichiu)
During a trip to Transylvania, we tasted lichiu, a sweet yeasted dough spread with a creamy, lemony, semolina filling and a custard upper layer made with crème fraîche and egg yolks. The semolina and custard fuse during baking, resulting in a deliciou
By Hisham Ali HassanSeptember 5, 2024
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Brown Butter-Cardamom Banana Bread
Two simple changes, and zero additional effort, make banana bread holiday-worthy, and we now only make it this way. OR Two simple changes, and zero additional effort, put this banana bread head and shoulders above the rest.
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Orange-Cranberry Soda Bread with White Chocolate Chunks
A cranberry and white chocolate-studded soda bread, perfect for breakfast over a cup of tea. OR A soda bread unlike any you've ever tasted
By Rose HattabaughOctober 4, 2021
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Maque-Style Mexican Bisquetes
Maque is a bakery/café with multiple locations in Mexico City. During a visit to the Condesa shop, we became particularly enamored of their bisquets. Mexican bisquets are common, but Maque’s stand out as unique. The deeply golden oversized buns featur
By Christopher Kimball & Rose HattabaughApril 28, 2025
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Lemon-Buttermilk Pound Cake
The lemon pound cake for angel food cake lovers.
By Matthew CardApril 4, 2017
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Olive Oil Challah with Golden Raisins
Golden raisins soaked in orange juice complement the fruity, peppery notes of extra-virgin olive oil in his light, feathery bread.
By Erika BruceSeptember 12, 2024
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Turkish Date-Filled Semolina Cookies
During a recent visit to Türkiye, we became fans of kömbe, buttery, pastry-like cookies made with spices and semolina, filled with nuts or dates and imprinted with delicate patterns or designs. Similar to Middle Eastern ma’amoul, kömbe are a specialty
By Rose HattabaughFebruary 1, 2024
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Parisian Flan (Flan Pâtissier)
Parisian flan is not the quivering, caramel-doused custard of Spanish origin. Rather, it’s a tart with a cheesecake-like stature.
By Rose HattabaughAugust 27, 2024
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Basque-Style Cheesecake
This world-famous Basque-style cheesecake, with its burnt, caramelized top, comes straight from the source.
By Rose HattabaughOctober 3, 2023
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Linzer Bars
Linzertorte is from Linz, Austria, but these more casual bars were inspired by ones we tasted in Frankfurt, Germany. Whereas the classic dessert requires a tart pan, a lattice top and deftness with delicate doughs, this bar cookie comes together easil
By Rose HattabaughSeptember 12, 2024
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Romanian Apple Pie with Cinnamon and Walnuts (Plăcintă cu Mere)
Cookbook author Irina Georgescu introduced us to Romanian plăcintă cu mere, a hybrid of slab-style apple pie bar cookie. The traditional baked treat sandwiches lightly sweetened shredded apples between two layers of tender crust. For our version, we c
By Rose HattabaughFebruary 20, 2025
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Meringue-Topped Cake with Cherries
Romanian prăjitură cu rubarbă is a simple, rustic rhubarb-studded cake that is covered with a snowy cloud of meringue after baking, then slid back into the oven. A few minutes later, the two-layer treat emerges with a crown of golden swirls and peaks—
By Rose HattabaughJune 27, 2024
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Bête Noire
Cookbook author Lora Brody’s creation bête noire is no typical chocolate cake: silky, custardy, with a base of sugar syrup.
By Wes MartinOctober 16, 2019
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Austrian Plum Cake
To avoid a soggy summer cake, balance moist fruit with a drier, lighter batter
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Danish Dream Cake
This fluffy vanilla "dream cake" (drømmekage), gets its dreaminess from a light crumb and a gooey, glossy, caramelized coating.
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The Invisible Apple Cake
A disappearing trick? Ultra-thin apple slices turn “invisible” as they meld into the custardy batter of this French loaf cake.
By Christopher KimballJuly 30, 2024
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Coconut Layer Cake
For our show "My Family Recipe," we recreated a Southern grandmother’s dreamy, towering coconut cake.
By Milk StreetOctober 28, 2022
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Lemon-Almond Pound Cake
Plush Lemon Pound Cake
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Inverted Pizza with Onions, Potatoes and Thyme
An all-time Milk Street favorite, this pizza comes together with store bought dough, rolled out over the toppings. Flip it over after baking, and get toppings that meld with the crust.
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Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
This decadent chocolate cake gets its tender, luscious crumb from the unexpected addition of fruity, peppery olive oil.
By Rose HattabaughApril 4, 2022
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Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de Queijo)
Tasty Brazilian cheese puffs, pão de queijo, are an easy, chewy, puffy snack for all occasions.
By Julie RackowOctober 16, 2017
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Triple-Chocolate Almond Cookies
This chewy, rich chocolate cookie uses an unorthodox one-bowl mixing method that is easy and cuts down on cleanup. The almond butter keeps these cookies moist, fudgy and almost brownie-like. We liked them with sliced almonds pressed onto the tops, but
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