Cinnamon and Cream

Chocolate Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies with Silky Gianduja Filling

Crisp, deeply chocolatey cookies sandwiched around a cloud of roasted hazelnut and chocolate cream – these are the grown-up answer to every store-bought sandwich cookie you have ever loved. They come together with straightforward technique and reward you with something that tastes genuinely special.

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Classic Kifli: Hungarian Walnut Crescent Cookies

Tender, melt-in-your-mouth crescent cookies filled with a sweetened walnut paste and dusted in powdered sugar, just like a Hungarian grandmother would make them. These traditional holiday cookies are simpler than they look and reward patient hands with something truly unforgettable.

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Raspberry Linzer Cookies with Brown Butter Almond Dough

These tender, nutty sandwich cookies are filled with bright raspberry jam and dusted with a cloud of powdered sugar – everything a classic Linzer should be, with a brown butter twist that makes them genuinely unforgettable. If you have an afternoon and a cookie cutter, this is the bake worth making.

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Classic Rugelach with Cinnamon Walnut Filling

Buttery cream cheese dough wraps around a fragrant cinnamon, walnut, and brown sugar filling to create these tender, flaky crescents that disappear faster than you can make them. This is the rugelach recipe you will come back to every holiday season and well beyond.

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Dutch Stroopwafels with Brown Butter Caramel Filling

Crisp, thin waffle cookies sandwiched around a ribbon of chewy brown butter caramel – these homemade stroopwafels are everything the packaged kind wishes it could be. Once you taste one warm off the iron, there is simply no going back.

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Homemade Oreo-Style Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Deeply chocolatey, snappy wafer cookies sandwiched around a cloud of sweet vanilla cream filling – these homemade sandwich cookies are everything you love about the classic, made entirely from scratch. Once you taste how much richer and more chocolatey they are, you may never reach for the store-bought version again.

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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 Sicilian Cassata with Ricotta and Candied Fruit

A showstopping Sicilian celebration cake layered with sweetened sheep’s milk ricotta, soaked sponge, and jewel-bright candied fruit beneath a glossy marzipan shell. This is the cake that has graced Palermo’s pasticcerie for centuries, and once you taste it, you will understand why.

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Classic Battenberg Cake with Homemade Marzipan

A quintessentially British teatime showstopper, this Battenberg hides a cheerful pink-and-yellow checkerboard inside a golden marzipan wrap. Once you understand the simple trick of baking the two sponges side by side in one divided tin, it is far less fussy than it looks.

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