Pastry chef Caroline Schiff joins Bon Appétit to make her perfect chocolate cake: an ultra-moist, four-layer showstopper with silky chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and a glossy chocolate sauce soak. From using oil and sour cream for a soft, tender crumb to balancing dark and milk chocolate with flaky sea salt, Caroline shares her best baking tricks for creating a rich yet surprisingly light chocolate cake from scratch.
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Pastry chef Caroline Schiff shares her ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe using two special ingredients. Discover how brown butter and malted milk powder create irresistibly chewy centers, crisp edges, and deep toffee-like flavor for the perfect cookie.
For more recipes like this one, preorder Caroline’s cookbook Daily Dessert, out 10/13/26: https://www.pastryschiff.com/cookbook/
Join Rick Martinez in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes blackout cake! According to legend (a.k.a. the Internet), this decadent chocolate cake was first created by Ebinger’s bakery in Brooklyn, New York, and named after the blackout drills during World War II.
Shilpa Uskokovic spent days in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen making tray after tray of red velvet cake to develop her perfect recipe. Watch as she experiments with every variable to arrive at the ultimate red velvet—from the rich chocolatey taste to the fluffiest cream frosting—before publishing it for Bon Appétit.
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Join chef Samantha Seneviratne as she makes Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake with Caramel Cream from the home kitchen. Perfect for warmer summer months when turning the oven on is the last thing on your mind, Sam's recipe sees ginger cookies soften into layers of tender cake surrounded by loads of raspberries and lofty caramel cream.
Food Editor Shilpa Uskokovic loved peanut butter cups so much while growing up that she’s created a grown up take on her childhood favorite. This hazelnut butter cup tart looks exactly like a giant Reese’s peanut butter cup and will rival anything you’d find in the candy aisle.
Join Chris Morocco in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes easy chocolate cake. If you've got a bowl, a cheap hand mixer, and a couple of measuring cups, you can make this rich, chocolatey cake. You can pre-mix batches of the dry ingredients together, store them in airtight containers for up to three months, and be ready to celebrate at a moments notice with your own DIY cake mix.
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At the Museum of Ice Cream, a month-long exhibit across from The Whitney in New York City, they have a 3-feet deep sprinkle pool, edible balloons, and magical berries that turn sour flavors to sweet.
You'll never buy the boxed version again. And there's no need to worry about multiple tiers and pans when it's all baked on one sheet pan. We made the sprinkles optional, but they're a must-have in our opinion.
Claire teaches us the ins and outs of the sweet stuff spread between cake layers, with tropical twists, creamy caramels, and of course, chocolate. Lot and lots of chocolate. As far as cakes go, it’s what’s on the inside that counts! (Well, that and the frosting.)
Join Food Editor Shilpa Uskokovic as she makes her raspberry cake with whipped cream filling, a recipe that proved so challenging to develop she almost couldn't finish it.
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Before you even start making this showstopper of a summer dessert, clear some space in your freezer. You’ll need a spot big enough to park a springform pan that’s filled to the brim.
Move over chocolate chip, there’s a new treat in town. This festive take on shortbread is not your average holiday cookie. It seamlessly straddles sweet and savory with its pistachio cookie base and 60% dark chocolate topping (with a sprinkling of crunchy nuts, of course). Let the dishes do the rest and serve them on Lenox Blue Bay pieces, an easy-to-mix-and-match collection with microwave-safe gold trim, for a fun, festive finish.
Sugar artist Ana Parzych joins Bon Appétit for this episode of Handcrafted to demonstrate every step of filling, stacking, and decorating a 5-tier wedding cake in her impeccable style. From building layers of buttercream and applying fondant, to crafting intricate decorative molding and realistic sugar flowers, take an up-close look at the craftsmanship behind the world’s most luxurious wedding cakes.
Join Chrissy Tracey as she make vegan chocolate lava cake. The ganache filling features Chrissy's own homemade maple syrup from the trees in her back yard (hi Brad), but don't worry if you have to use the store-bought stuff.
No need to even touch the oven to make this perfect autumn dessert. Our pumpkin spice icebox cake is easily assembled and unbearably delicious. Get the recipe here: http://weigt-finish.today/recipe/pumpkin-spice-icebox-cake
Written recipe coming soon!
