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.
For more recipes like this one, preorder Caroline’s cookbook Daily Dessert, out 10/13/26: https://www.pastryschiff.com/cookbook/
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 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.
Join Amiel Stanek in his home kitchen as he makes doughnut bread pudding. This recipe is a great way to use up stale doughnuts, but if you’ve got freshly made ones, that works too. Start with classic glazed or sugar-coated yeasted doughnuts, which have a light and airy texture, rather than cake doughnuts, which are dense and will turn to mush when combined with the custard.
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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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 Chris Morocco as he teaches you how to make these pretty healthy gluten-free buckwheat chocolate waffles. Pro tip: don't skip out on the ricotta cream topping!
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You’re looking at the quintessential June dessert, perfected by the BA Test Kitchen. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
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If you’re feeling really decadent and fancy (as you should), add a splash of half-and-half or heavy cream just before serving. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
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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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Grated coconut may not be everybody's cup of tea, but there is no denying that this candy is an absolute classic. In this episode, Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet version of Almond Joys, that almond, coconut and chocolate Halloween staple.
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Join Brad Leone, Zaynab Issa, Melissa Miranda, and Chrissy Tracey in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as they each prepare a cool fruit-based dessert perfect for warm summer nights. From cantaloupe candy and fresh berry sorbet to grilled mangoes and cheesecake, there's sure to be something here for every person at the cookout.
See Zaynab's full recipe for her lemon ricotta cake here: https://weigt-finish.today/recipe/any-berry-lemon-ricotta-cake%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="StackedRatingsCardWrapper-RIFgn jsPKbl SummaryCollectionGridSummaryItem-ilztYA cpHIzM search_result_item-5f997c7569f5586cf3996510">
Join Samantha Seneviratne in her home kitchen as she makes cardamom cream and maple-glazed doughnuts. This recipe does include deep frying, but it's not as scary as it seems. Just stick with Samantha and you'll be fine!
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.
