9,644 silk recipes

Thai-style spicy peanut sauce for satay: red curry paste cooked in coconut cream until oily, finished with thin coconut milk, fish sauce, palm sugar, tamarind, and ground peanuts.

Boston banana cream pie, a soft vanilla cake split and stuffed with fresh banana slices and homemade vanilla custard, then topped with a glossy chocolate-almond glaze.

Light honey gelato made with skim milk, whipped egg whites, and unflavored gelatin. No ice cream maker needed. A fluffy, low-fat frozen dessert sweetened entirely with honey.

Slow cooker salmon chowder with bacon, au gratin potato mix, corn, and a creamy milk base. A shortcut crockpot chowder that uses boxed potatoes for built-in thickening and cheesy flavor.

Sweet potato casserole with a crunchy pecan-coconut-brown sugar topping baked until golden. The holiday side dish everyone fights over at Thanksgiving.

Homemade cinnamon bread with a soft, honey-sweetened yeast dough rolled with a thick cinnamon-sugar filling and shaped into S-coils in the pan. Makes 3 loaves or can be shaped into dinner rolls.

Black chocolate cake made with a boiled chocolate-milk-sugar syrup folded into a simple butter batter. Dense, fudgy, and baked in a single 9x13 pan.

Low-fat cornbread made with applesauce instead of butter and egg whites in place of whole eggs. The preheated pan trick delivers a golden, crispy bottom crust every time.

Jeanne's cake stacks a tender vanilla cake on a crisp shortbread base, all wrapped in silky old-fashioned ermine frosting, the cooked-flour kind that's fluffy and far less sweet than buttercream.

Easy drop dumplings for stew with just 5 pantry ingredients. Light, fluffy, and ready in 12 minutes. Drop by spoonfuls into any simmering stew and cover. No rolling or shaping needed.

Warm feta and spinach dip: cream cheese and crumbled feta blended with fresh spinach, garlic, and thyme, then warmed into a creamy, savory party dip. Mediterranean spin on the classic.

Malted coconut marble cake baked in a tube pan with swirled vanilla and chocolate malt batters, topped with coconut frosting browned under the broiler. A retro bakery-style cake with a toasty malt flavor.

Classic S.O.S. creamed beef on toast with a simple milk gravy made from browned ground beef, flour, and pan drippings. Old-school military comfort food with just 5 ingredients.

This classic tres leches cake soaks a fluffy egg-separated sponge in three rich milks, then gets crowned with billowy vanilla meringue. A beloved Latin American dessert that melts on the tongue.

Old-fashioned 1850 blackberry pie with five ingredients. Berries baked into a single crust under a flour, sugar, and milk custard for a rustic 19th-century farmhouse pie that sets into a soft, jammy slice.

A simple three-ingredient vanilla sugar glaze, just sugar, milk, and vanilla whisked smooth and poured over pound cake. Quick to make and easy to drizzle over berries for a finishing sweet sheen.