23 part recipes

Grilled chicken satay skewers with a creamy peanut dipping sauce spiked with soy, brown sugar, garlic, and red pepper flakes. Makes 24 skewers for the ultimate party appetizer.

How to roast a whole turkey in the microwave: finish the bird in a roasting bag at reduced power, then rest it tented under foil so it cooks through and stays juicy. A faster route to a moist holiday bird.

Spice cookies with pumpkin dip: molasses-and-ginger cookies rolled in sugar, served with a creamy cream cheese and pumpkin pie dip. A holiday cookie plate with a dunking twist.

Seven homemade pancake and waffle syrups from scratch: brown sugar, orange, apple cider, spicy cider, honey maple, spiced maple, and whipped maple. Quick stovetop recipes.

Classic Boston cream pie with a tender cake flour sponge, vanilla custard cream filling, and chocolate glaze. A from-scratch version of the iconic layered dessert.

Homemade strawberry and blueberry glazes for cheesecake with cornstarch thickening and liqueur. Two fruit topping options: orange-kissed strawberry or kirsch-spiked blueberry.

Frosted ginger cookies with deep molasses warmth, soft pillowy centers, and a sweet frosting finish. Classic drop-cookie method delivers tender bakery-style rounds every time.

Santa Claus cookies decorate flat sugar cookies with red sugar caps, miniature marshmallow tassels, currant eyes, cinnamon candy noses, and coconut beards. A festive holiday craft cookie kids can help build from baked rounds.

Mushroom beef patties smothered in a basil cream sauce, topped with melted cheese and onions. Salisbury steak taken up a notch with a hot-pepper kick and fresh mushrooms.

Apple nut cake built on applesauce and olive oil with overlapping apple slices and a toasted cinnamon-sugar nut topping. A dairy-free, butter-free autumn cake that bakes into something moist, rustic and crowd-ready.

Crunchy oat, cornflake and coconut cookies sandwiched with chocolate cream cheese filling. Retro-style double crunchers with texture contrast in every bite.

Cookie dough brownies layer a fudgy cocoa brownie with a buttery, eggless cookie-dough frosting and a glossy chocolate glaze. All the taste of raw cookie dough, safely baked into a decadent layered bar.

Learn all about spices and how to use them with this self-explanatory recipe.

Snickers pie assembly with fudge filling, chopped candy bars, cream cheese layer and milk chocolate drizzle. Decadent triple-layer chocolate pie finished cold.

Barb's special sweet bread dough Part I. A laminated yeasted dough folded with butter in three turns, the master base for danishes, kringles, and filled pastries. Family recipe from 1850s tradition.

Barb's Special Sweet Breads Part 2 (Weinerbrod) recipe