cakes
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The Real Trick to Making a Silky-Smooth Cheesecake Filling
Besides the water bath, the notorious cracking, a long bake time, and an unimaginably long cooling time, cheesecake has only one bother: chunks of unblended cream cheese. Cakes and quick breads that are made with flour are often OK if there are small lumps of unblended ingredients — it usually shakes out in the oven.…
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Turn Your Jack-o’-Lantern Guts Into Pumpkin Bread
As we’re all carving our pumpkins this week in hopes they’ll make it to Halloween before they rot or the squirrels get to them, you’ve probably been digging through pumpkin guts and separating out the seeds to make crunchy fall snacks. When you’re done, don’t toss those gooey pumpkin guts — make them into something…
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Make This Easy Halloween Eyeball Cake Using Any Cake Batter
Trying to make a sinister monster eyeball cake for Halloween might sound like a Nailed It! disaster waiting to happen, but it’s not as hard as you think to make a spooky season-appropriate decorative treat to terrify your friends and family. You don’t need any special equipment or a particular set of cake carving skills…
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Make Your Next Cheesecake in an Air Fryer
Cheesecake is the kind of dessert that requires you to fully commit well before you flick on the oven. It takes a lot of time, specific tools, and an unholy amount of cream cheese. Providing everything goes right, removing a sloshing tray of 180-degree water along with a three-pound cheesecake is rarely a pretty sight.…