110 magic recipes

Impossibly easy coconut pie that forms its own crust while baking. Just blend, pour, and let the oven work magic for a custardy slice with toasted coconut on top.

A bold beef barbecue sauce simmered with beer, chili sauce, pimento-stuffed olives, and butter. Briny, tangy, and ready in 15 minutes. Makes 1½ cups of pure backyard magic.

Think magic cookie bars turned into drop cookies. Graham cracker crumbs, sweetened condensed milk, coconut, chocolate chips, and walnuts baked into chewy golden mounds. Ready in 30 minutes flat.

Coco-Chips bars with a graham cracker crust, shredded coconut, chocolate chips, and sweetened condensed milk baked into gooey, chewy squares. A 5-ingredient magic bar that never fails.

Pennsylvania Dutch funny cake baked in a pie shell with chocolate sauce on the bottom and vanilla cake on top. Two layers swap places in the oven like magic.

Hello Dollys (magic cookie bars) layered with vanilla wafer crumbs, chocolate chips, coconut, pecans, and sweetened condensed milk. No mixing needed, just layer and bake for a gooey, chewy bar.

Graham cracker cookies layer buttery crumbs, walnuts, chocolate chips, and flaked coconut, then bake with a brown sugar and evaporated milk drizzle. No mixing required. Also called magic bars or seven layer bars.

Hearty breadmaker country seed bread loaded with flax, sesame, and poppy seeds in a honey-sweetened whole wheat dough. Dump it in, press start, and let the machine work its magic.

Vegan self-saucing chocolate pudding cake with walnuts. Hot water poured over cocoa-sugar batter creates a fudgy chocolate sauce underneath as the cake bakes. No eggs, no dairy, total magic.

Poor Man's Cake: a Depression-era boiled raisin cake spiced with cinnamon, cloves and allspice. No eggs, no milk, no butter. Just pantry basics, lard and the magic of plumped raisins.

Lemon sponge bakes in individual custard cups in a hot-water bath. The filling separates magically into a tangy curd layer below and a feather-light cake-like sponge on top.

This impossible pot pie magically forms its own golden crust as it bakes. Just dump everything in one dish and let the oven do the work. Weeknight comfort in 45 minutes flat.

Classic Italian-American chicken parmesan baked instead of fried for lighter comfort food. Dijon-kissed breasts get a parmesan breadcrumb crust, then nestle into homemade tomato-basil sauce for pure weeknight magic.

Chocolate almond pie pours hot chocolate syrup over almond-cake batter in a pie shell. As it bakes, the layers separate magically into pudding bottom, cake top, with toasted almonds and chocolate shavings.

Lemon pudding cake that splits into two layers as it bakes: a fluffy citrus sponge on top and a tart lemon curd underneath. A magic self-saucing dessert from one bowl of batter.

Mocha pudding cake: a self-saucing chocolate coffee cake that bakes its own rich fudge sauce underneath the crackled top. Pour boiling water over the batter and let the oven do the magic.