24 Brilliant Baking Recipes to Change Your Kitchen Game
The New York Times
These delectable treats are full of light-bulb moments that educate as much as they impress.
A great baking recipe can seem like wizardry. A handful of unassuming pantry staples are mixed together and heated (or sometimes chilled), and what results can anchor a celebration or simply make a bad day better. In the most brilliant of cases, it can surprise and delight with its inventiveness.
Behind every clever, inventive technique is a clever, inventive cook who looks at a recipe and wonders, How could this be done better? The savviest home cooks and recipe creators always think about how to streamline and innovate in ways big and small, and the 24 recipes below illustrate just that.
Not all involve baking in the traditional sense: Several are prepared on a stovetop, in a food processor or set in the refrigerator. What unites them are smart techniques, the eye-opening approaches that educate as much as they impress. We hope that these recipes — a cake that get its rise from 7Up or the rich, silky mousse that forms out of just chocolate — will show you the possibilities of certain ingredients, and expand your understanding in the kitchen.
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