16 Sweets for the March Madness Sweet Sixteen
16 recipes for treats like cookies, cake, doughnuts, fudge, and more to celebrate March Madness's Sweet Sixteen.
Marcus Nilsson
College basketball fans are going crazy over their March Madness brackets (go UCLA!) as the tournament has progressed to the next level: the Sweet Sixteen. But even if you aren't a basketball fan, you can enjoy our own Sweet Sixteen—a list of treats we can root for, like pudding, cake, cookies, fudge, ice-cream sandwiches, and chocolate bark.
5/16Salted Pistachio Brittle
Here, a coarse sea salt like fleur de sel or sel gris plays a few important roles: It tempers and cuts the richness of the nuts and butter, it adds a concentrated crunch—and it makes the brittle look divine. Break this vibrant green pistachio brittle on top of ice cream or crumble it over rice pudding. Or, do what we do, and eat it straight off the baking sheet.
