Epicurious

This Smith Island Cake recipe boasts eight layers of yellow cake covered in a blanket of chocolate ganache.

A buttery lattice dough enrobes mushrooms, herbs, and speck.

This flourless chocolate cake is rich and densely chocolaty. It’s just the kind of low-effort, high-reward recipe we love.

This simple classic gin martini recipe makes a beautiful, sophisticated cocktail that is as easy to stir together as it is to drink.

This simple and easy chocolate frosting is deeply chocolaty, fluffy, and swooshable.

Buttermilk makes the chocolate cupcakes moist and fluffy, and using oil instead of butter means they keep well.

With a handful of ingredients and easy cleanup, this brunch favorite only looks like you spent all morning at the stove.

Chicken piccata is a classic Italian dish made from pounded flat chicken breasts dredged in all-purpose flour, pan-fried, and topped with a lemony white wine and caper sauce.

There are few Italian sweet more iconic than cannoli.

A dash of Angostura bitters gives complexity to this classic orange juice and vodka cocktail.

Adjacent to a piña colada, this tropical cocktail gets a splash of citrusy blue liqueur.

The New York Sour is a classic cocktail that combines whiskey, lemon, and simple syrup and then gets a small pour of red wine floated ever so carefully on top.

If a coffee cake and a focaccia had a baby, it would look something like this Moravian sugar cake.

This rhubarb cake recipe keeps things simple and scatters thinly sliced fresh rhubarb on top of the cake

Creamy and comforting, this old-fashioned rice pudding can be made up to two days in advance and never disappoints.

This citrusy two-ingredient cocktail is nearly a century old but comes together in no time at all.

Putting mayonnaise in the recipe gives you fluffy, craggy, flavorful biscuits that go from bowl to outstretched hand in about 20 minutes.

Sicilian pizza is an Italian-style pizza recipe identified by its thick, chewy, bready crust under a layer of toppings like tomato sauce.

Perfect for picnics, potlucks, or those nights when you simply don’t want to turn on the oven.

This remix of an American classic is creamy and ribboned with fresh vegetables, but the real star is the paprika-scented fried onions.

Caramel rolls are soft, plush, buttery, cinnamon-y, and drenched in caramel. Here’s my rendition of the Midwestern specialty.

Cowboy cookies are like oatmeal ones, but packed with hearty mix-ins like coconut, pecans, and chocolate.

The official pastry of Wisconsin has Danish roots. Our homemade kringle recipe is filled with almond paste and cherry jam.

Good things happen when you combine a childhood classic with chewy crystallized ginger.