10,000 cream recipes

Pasta with smoked salmon and golden caviar: thin spaghetti in a silky butter cream sauce, ribboned with smoked salmon and crowned with a spoonful of golden whitefish caviar. Elegant in 30 minutes.

Peanut brittle Bavarian ring with a coffee-flavored gelatin mousse of whipped cream and egg whites over a crunchy peanut brittle base. A retro no-bake dessert with a cloud-like texture and caramel crunch.

Steaks Esterhazy is a Hungarian-style dinner of broiled sirloin or T-bone topped with a creamy paprika sauce of mushrooms, sour cream, and Worcestershire. A 35-minute weeknight take on a classic recipe.

Surprise carrot cake baked in a Bundt pan with a hidden cream cheese filling layered inside the spiced batter. Cut a slice and find a tangy, creamy ribbon running through the center of the cake.

Potage au potiron, a silky French pumpkin soup with onion, white wine, turnip and carrot, enriched with cream and buttery croutons, then served right inside the hollowed pumpkin shell. A showstopping autumn first course.

Ground beef, noodles, and hoop cheese stirred together with cream of mushroom and tomato soup, then baked under a buttery cracker crumb crust. This cheesy slop in a pot is gloriously messy, ridiculously good comfort food.

Crab rangoon delivers crackly golden wonton shells stuffed with a cool, creamy blend of crab, cream cheese, scallions, and mayo. This crispy fried Chinese-takeout appetizer comes together fast and disappears even faster at the party table.

Halloween jack-o-lantern cake baked in a fluted bundt pan to mimic pumpkin ridges, frosted bright orange with a green ice cream cone stem and brown jack-o-lantern face. A no-fuss boxed mix dessert kids love decorating.

Peach-rhubarb crisp pairing sweet peaches with tart rhubarb under a buttery oat-and-coconut crumble. Made with canned peaches and frozen rhubarb so you can bake it year-round, in the oven or microwave. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

Warm up your cold winter days with this hearty and delicious potato soup that will make your days seem a little bit brighter.

This delicate soup, popular 100 years ago, is now unusual. On no account should it be liquidized at any stage, as that ruins the texture

No-bake peppermint fudge pie layered into a chocolate wafer crust, with a creamy marshmallow filling studded with crushed peppermint candy. A holiday classic with cool, minty crunch.

Slice and bake sugar cookies: a make-ahead dough rolled in wax paper and chilled, then sliced and baked into tender cookies. Yields nearly eight dozen.

Chocolate-almond sandwich cookies with ground almond cocoa wafers and whipped white chocolate ganache filling. An elegant, slice-and-bake cookie that keeps for a week.

Fattigmands bakkelese are traditional Norwegian deep-fried pastry cookies with cardamom, citron, and lemon juice. Rich egg yolk dough rolled thin, cut into diamond shapes, and fried until golden and crisp.

Fat-free chocolate cake leans on whipped egg whites and marshmallow creme instead of butter or oil for a light, fudgy crumb. No-fat dessert with cocoa, flour, and vanilla.