Dessert

This ambitious Mallomars-inspired recipe is a project: Make the (wheat-free!) cookie base and top with marshmallow on day one; enrobe in chocolate on day two.

Both types of tahini should be roughly the same consistency for this halvah recipe—ideally pretty loose and pourable—which makes it easy to marble them. Most black tahini will be great, but Roland and Whole Foods 365 Organic were the best of the white tahini we tested.

These financiers are moist and nutty from the addition of brown butter and hazelnuts; in this recipe, resting the dough amplifies all of those flavors.

Left unadorned, these gummy candies look like precious gems, or they can be transformed into sparkly crunchy treats by tossing in coarse sugar before serving.

Crush candies in a plastic bag with a rolling pin. Using a hand mixer is more effective than a stand mixer for this chocolate-peppermint fudge recipe.

In this recipe, a few textured and vibrant toppings gussy up a tender, buttery, and ultrasimple shortbread.

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL.

Cornstarch shouldn't be intimidating. It's a miracle ingredient that will take your kitchen game to the next level.

If a tiramisu, a pumpkin spice latte, and an icebox pie had a baby, it would be this make-ahead dessert recipe. Some things are better from a can or a box—pumpkin purée and graham crackers are two of those things.

Ben Schott catalogs the sweet, sour, and occasionally bitter culinary incidents of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Your pie crust should never be soggy on the bottom. Never.

Dentists are people, too, and it turns out that they have sugar cravings just like the rest of us mortals.

Your tastebuds change, and so do candy recipes. But can you catch the difference?

You either agree that Reese's are the best candy—or you're lying.

Nerds are the greatest candy of all time, because it's a bottomless box of crunchy sweet/tart bliss.

It involves about 5 minutes of prep—and it's impossible to dislike.

ZOURS, aka sour Mike and Ike 2.0, are consistent—consistently the best.

Health police parents, it's time to turn in your badges.

Get out of here with your candy corn: Mellowcreme pumpkins are the best Halloween candy of all time.

The unsung chocolate hero, Caramello, may be the greatest candy of all time.

These 5 discontinued candy bars continue to pull at the heartstrings of sugar fiends across the country.

The caramel in this recipe is chewy, so it will stick to the apple but won’t turn into a hard shell when cooled.

Make America Ice Creamy Again

Earthy, nutrient-rich whole grain flours give this classic banana loaf cake recipe some added personality.