Dessert

These deep, dark brownies, a Lauren family favorite, are from Ricky Lauren's The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History.

In case of sunshine and happiness, make this colorful ice cream float! Spiking it with some booze makes it even tastier.

The best pie crust doesn't require special equipment. Using your hands is the best way to ensure that the butter ends up in irregular pieces and the dough doesn’t get overworked. Use the force!

To guarantee perfect scoops, temper your ice cream on the counter for 5–10 minutes.

Pour in the soda slowly, allowing it to cascade over the ice cream, then top off until the glass is full.

Everyone knows the best part of any coffee cake is the buttery, sugary topping. Here's our test kitchen's formula for making a perfect crumb topping—for any cake.

A great cheesecake is the stuff dreams are made of. Make it a reality by avoiding these cheesecake common mistakes.

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Bringing the perfect birthday cake to life in your kitchen doesn't require fondant or fancy tools with these tips.

We developed the perfect cheesecake recipe.

Here are 15 recipes for all those second-helping needs.

Learn how to make chocolate cake, the easy, intermediate, and advance ways.

Associate food editor Claire Saffitz is here to help you make the best chocolate cake of your life.

This chocolate birthday cake recipe calls for dark chocolate in the ganache to balance out the sweetness of the Nutella. For a more kid-friendly cake, use milk chocolate. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

Icing on top and in the middle, sides left bare: This modern-looking style shows off the cake’s decadent (and perfectly even) chocolate layers.

The genius part of this rich and moist sheet cake recipe is the “reverse creaming” method. Instead of creaming butter and sugar before adding the liquid ingredients and flour, you’ll gradually add the liquid ingredients into the flour. As a result, the cake bakes almost perfectly flat—no domed tops, no layers to trim.

Never mess up pie dough again.

Oats for breakfast are good, but oats for dessert are better. These 18 recipes are proof

Pie is great. Cream pie is better.

Make a rhubarb galette. It's spring. It's practically a requirement.

This bread was the talk of the BA office for a few months (in the best possible way). Some quick tips: Use the ripest bananas possible and tent the bread with foil if it’s browning too quickly.

Equal parts fruit crumble and coffee cake, this not-too-sweet dessert starts out bright pink but bakes to a toasty golden brown.

Tandem Coffee + Bakery’s coconut cream pie recipe riffs on the classic in all the right ways.