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BA’s Best Buttermilk Biscuits
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Quartering and stacking the dough creates lots of flaky layers that beg to be pulled apart and slathered with softened butter. 
Gluten-Free Banana Bread
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An all-purpose gluten-free blend does the heavy lifting here, keeping the ingredient list short and sweet.
BA’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Easy
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Crispy edges, chewy centers, and puddles of chocolate in every bite.
Torched Banana Cake
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Each bite of this luscious, melt-in-your-mouth banana cake is crowned with a crackly sugar crust that’s worth grabbing a kitchen torch to make.
Spatter Paint Sugar Cookies
Easy
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These tender, buttery sugar cookies use cold butter (no waiting around for yours to soften!) and come together in a food processor, so you can go from zero to dough in minutes.
Baked Butter Paneer
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I should address the awkward truth that I don’t use butter here but cream instead. You could, if you’re a stickler for tradition (and not a heretic like me), add a big slab of butter to the finished curry.
Pretzel Linzers With Salted Caramel
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Deb Perelman's recipe for salty-sweet cookies that have a caramel filling you can totally pull off at home.
Butter Spritz Cookies
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You can create a variety of shapes and colors with a cookie press. We love OXO’s cookie press for this recipe since it has sturdy metal plates and all the parts unscrew easily for cleaning.
Banana Pudding Paris-Brest
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This modern riff on an old-school French classic is the ultimate fancy-pants dessert.
Chocolate Chipless Cookies
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Who doesn’t want chocolate chips in their cookies? A lot of us, apparently.
Trouble Cookies
Easy
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Naturally sweet sorghum flour becomes caramelly when combined with butter and brown sugar in these cookies that, per their name, cause uncontrollable urges for more cookies.
How to Soften Butter—Quickly—According to a Pro Baker
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Three methods for when you need cookies, right now.

Shilpa Uskokovic

Oil Your Measuring Cups And Never Scrape Sticky Ingredients Again
Cooking
I spent 30 years measuring sticky ingredients like a fool.

Ella Quittner

This Tool Makes Homemade Butter in a Flash
Culture
Homemade butter in a beautifully designed glass vessel. Not the giant wooden thing they used in the old days.

Brad Leone

DIY Nut Butters
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On Wednesday, the Foodist blew up our spot by declaring peanut butter on toast the breakfast of choice for many BA staffers. The Test Kitchen can do you one better, Foodist: We make our own nut butters.

Kay Chun

Don't Make These Common Mistakes When Cooking (or Baking!) with Butter
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Butter makes everything better—unless you make these common mistakes.

Rochelle Bilow

Are You Team Butter Board? We Have Thoughts
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The latest TikTok darling, this cousin to the charcuterie board is even easier to assemble, but some of our staffers aren’t convinced.

Li Goldstein

Rick Makes Tie-Dye Cookies
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Join Rick Martinez in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes tie-dye swirl holiday cookies. The butter cookie that acts as your canvas is extremely simple to make (like, six ingredients simple), so you can spend most of your time on the fun part: unleashing your inner artiste. When you’re decorating, no need to panic if your first attempts don’t work out. Simply wipe off the failed glaze, let the cookie dry for about five minutes, and try again.
How To Make Your Own Butter
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Store-bought butter comes in all types, shapes, and sizes but there's something unmistakably satisfying (and delicious) about making your own at home. Flavor scientist Arielle Johnson demonstrates precisely how to make it happen in your own kitchen, explaining in detail each step of turning liquid dairy into flavorful, spreadable butter.
Brad Makes Butter
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Bon Appétit test kitchen manager, Brad Leone, is back with the second episode of "It’s Alive," and this time he’s taking you to school, making tangy, creamy, salty cultured butter. Will it be boring? Nope. Is the process scientifically accurate? Maybe. Will there be jokes and made-up words? Most likely. Will you learn about butter? Of course. Get those churning hands ready, buy some buttermilk, cream, and grab some bread. It’s Butter. It’s Alive.
Millet-Scallion Pancakes
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We show you how to make millet-scallion pancakes.
The Key to the Flakiest Buttermilk Biscuits
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This is your lucky day. Claire, our expert baker, is about to share with you her secrets to the flakiest buttermilk biscuit. Never has a pastry had so many layers. Drizzle on some honey and you'll be in buttery biscuit heaven.

Get the recipe: BA’s Best Buttermilk Biscuits
Bacon-Butter Radishes
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Spice up your crudités game with bright and crunchy radishes dipped in savory bacon-butter.