123 secret recipes

Pinto bean fudge blends strained beans with chocolate chips, marshmallows, and nuts for a surprisingly creamy candy. No one will guess the secret ingredient.

An award-winning chili recipe that combines pork with beef, sauces and reveals secret spices while cooking using a two-phase process to keep flavors bright and fresh.

Hearty beef chuck chili simmered low for hours with kidney beans, stewed tomatoes, chili powder and a secret hit of cornmeal for body. A Southern-style bowl that warms you from the inside out.

Chocolate red beet cake: deep cocoa cake with mashed beets baked into a moist, tender crumb you'd never guess was hiding a vegetable. An old-school secret-ingredient cake.

Vanilla is the secret ingredient in this cross-cultural sauce, which is also delicious served with grilled or roasted meats, poultry or seafood.

Make your own yogurt with this simple recipe that will have your family begging for the secret!

A dead-simple chocolate cheesecake pie with a secret weapon: mayonnaise for ultra-creamy richness. Melted chocolate chips, cream cheese, and a chocolate crumb crust. Five minutes to prep.

Texas-style pecan pie with a secret cornmeal addition for texture, both light and dark corn syrup for depth, and vanilla butternut extract. Gooey, crunchy, and piled with whipped cream.

Bread machine rye bread with caraway seeds and a secret ingredient: sauerkraut for extra tang and moisture. Three-flour blend for a dense, chewy crumb.

The secret to making the cucumbers crunchy is to salt them first and let the salt draw out excess moisture before use.

French hazelnut meringue biscuit with finely ground filberts folded into whipped egg whites. Baked hot and fast for a light, nutty base layer that's a pastry chef's secret weapon.

Creamy no-fail chocolate fudge with a secret ingredient: process cheese. Melts into a rich, smooth candy loaded with cocoa and chopped nuts that nobody will guess.

Slow cooker beef and pork chili with secret Southern twists: bacon drippings, coffee, cocoa, and a touch of sugar for deep complexity. Simmer for hours until thick and rich.

Halloween veggie platter with a deliberately lumpy, yellowish cottage cheese dip that looks horrifying but tastes like a savory onion dip. Gross-out party food that's secretly healthy.

Chocolate-butterscotch brownies use butterscotch pudding mix as the secret base, folded with semisweet chocolate chips for a chewy bar with deep caramel notes. Mid-century pantry baking that delivers fast.

Triple-chocolate cookies with a secret ingredient: mayonnaise. Chocolate cake mix, chocolate fudge pudding mix, and semisweet chocolate chunks bound together with mayo for fudgy cookies that come together in 20 minutes.