Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting
This peanut butter frosting is light and fluffy — the perfect topping for brownies, chocolate cake, and cupcakes. Sweet but not too sweet; peanut buttery but not greasy. This creamy frosting tastes wonderful and won't overpower your chocolate treats!
Pork and Ricotta Stuffed Jumbo Shells
Jumbo pasta shells are filled with a savory blend of ground pork, creamy ricotta cheese, and herbs, then baked in a rich tomato sauce until bubbling and golden. A comforting, flavorful Italian-inspired dish perfect for family dinners.
Perfect Lemon Curd
Classic lemon curd that's wonderfully tart, sweet, and smooth. Delicious spread on scones or used to fill cakes, cupcakes, tarts, and more!
Sugar Cookie Icing
This sugar cookie icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different colorings as you desire to make beautiful decorations on your cookies. This recipe makes enough icing to decorate a dozen sugar cookies.
Buttermilk Macaroni and Cheese with Baby Kale
A quick sauté renders baby kale leaves perfectly tender, allowing them to almost melt into the buttermilk-enriched béchamel in chef and cookbook author Alexander Smalls' riff on mac and cheese. For a smooth sauce, make sure all of the dairy is at room temperature.
Cast Iron Cornmeal Cake with Buttermilk Cream
Pouring the batter into a hot skillet ensures a perfectly cooked, dark golden–bottomed crust with a fluffy, golden interior. To check for doneness, rely on the visual cues for browning—a cake tester will come out clean before the cake is cooked through.