Cinnamon and Cream

Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies with Classic Royal Icing

These cream cheese sugar cookies hold their shape perfectly in the oven and bake up with a tender, slightly tangy crumb that plain butter cookies simply cannot match. Pair them with a smooth, glossy royal icing and you have a cookie that is as beautiful to look at as it is to eat.

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Cinnamon Roll Cookies with Vanilla Bean Glaze

These slice-and-bake cookies capture everything you love about a cinnamon roll, crisp buttery edges, a swirled cinnamon-brown sugar filling, and a glossy vanilla bean glaze, in a form you can have on the table in under two hours. They are the kind of cookie that makes your whole kitchen smell like a bakery and disappears from the plate before they have a chance to cool.

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Classic Charlotte Russe with Vanilla Bavarian Cream and Ladyfingers

A showstopping French classic that looks far more impressive than the effort required, this Charlotte Russe layers a cloud-light Bavarian cream inside a crown of crisp ladyfinger biscuits. It is the kind of dessert that makes guests go quiet before they start asking for seconds.

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Italian Torta Caprese with Dark Chocolate and Almonds

This flourless Italian chocolate cake from the island of Capri is dense, fudgy, and naturally gluten-free, with a crackled top and an intensely nutty richness that makes it feel far more impressive than the effort required. One bowl, no flour, no fuss, and a result that tastes like it came from a Neapolitan pasticceria.

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Matcha Green Tea Cheesecake with Toasted Almond Crust

Silky, barely-sweet cream cheese filling swirled with earthy ceremonial-grade matcha sits atop a golden, buttery toasted almond crust for a cheesecake that feels both elegant and deeply satisfying. If you have ever wanted a dessert that looks stunning on a table and tastes even better than it looks, this is the one to make.

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Dark Rum Fruitcake with Brandy-Soaked Fruit

This deeply spiced, mahogany-dark fruitcake is a world away from the dreaded holiday doorstop, thanks to fruit that soaks for days in brandy and a generous pour of dark rum in the batter itself. Make it weeks ahead and feed it with rum as it matures, and you will have a showpiece worth every minute of patience.

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Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Salted Caramel Glaze

This deeply flavored pound cake swaps granulated sugar for dark brown sugar, creating an impossibly tender crumb with warm molasses undertones and a rich, buttery caramel glaze that sets into a glossy, crackable shell. It is the kind of cake that makes your kitchen smell like a bakery and disappears before it has a chance to go stale.

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