Apple Crisp with classic oat topping: a fantastic example of simple home baking.
Dessert
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake: an excellent buttermilk chocolate layer cake with a fantastic frosting, from Amerca’s Test Kitchen.
How to Make No-Bakes with Old-Fashioned Oats
How to Make No-Bakes with Old-Fashioned Oats: easy to make, chocolaty-cocoa, peanut-buttery, stovetop, comfort-food cookies.
Lemon Layer Cake
Lemon Layer Cake: alternating layers of white cake and lemon curd shrouded in a cloud of a feather-weight, whipped frosting.
Chocolate Blackout Cake
Chocolate Blackout Cake is three layers of buttermilk-chocolate cake, interspersed with a luscious, chocolate pudding. Beautifully decorated in cake crumbs.
Chocolate Chip Cookies: The Best I’ve Ever Made
I stumbled across this Jacques Torres recipe at Martha Stewart. Though it specifies bittersweet or semisweet, milk chocolate would be just as delicious. A combination of bread and pastry flour (maybe a touch of whole wheat), plus the secret of refrigerating the dough (thank you, NY Times), makes these cookies chewy, beautiful, and texturally interesting.
Chocolate Buttermilk Ice Cream with Chocolate Malt Pieces
Chocolate Buttermilk Ice Cream with Chocolate Malt Pieces is rich, delicious, custardy, and above all, creamy.
Smith Island Cake
A Smith Island Cake consists of many, thin cake layers. It looks like a crepe cake, but the layers are made with from-scratch cake batter. This chocolate fudge version is ultra traditional.
Pear and Olive Oil Cake
Poached Pear and Olive Oil Cake with hints of ginger and spice, paired with a luscious, cream cheese frosting: yeah!