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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.
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An all-purpose gluten-free blend does the heavy lifting here, keeping the ingredient list short and sweet.
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Crispy edges, chewy centers, and puddles of chocolate in every bite.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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Deb Perelman's recipe for salty-sweet cookies that have a caramel filling you can totally pull off at home.
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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.
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This modern riff on an old-school French classic is the ultimate fancy-pants dessert.
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Who doesn’t want chocolate chips in their cookies? A lot of us, apparently.
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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.
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Three methods for when you need cookies, right now.
Shilpa Uskokovic

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I spent 30 years measuring sticky ingredients like a fool.
Ella Quittner

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Homemade butter in a beautifully designed glass vessel. Not the giant wooden thing they used in the old days.
Brad Leone

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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

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Butter makes everything better—unless you make these common mistakes.
Rochelle Bilow

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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We show you how to make millet-scallion pancakes.

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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
Get the recipe: BA’s Best Buttermilk Biscuits

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Spice up your crudités game with bright and crunchy radishes dipped in savory bacon-butter.