Recipe from America’s Test Kitchen which states, “Texas Sheet Cake is a huge, pecan-topped cake with three distinct layers of chocolaty goodness. We poured sweet chocolate icing over a cake hot out of the oven. When it cooled, we had an icing layer, a fudgy layer where the icing and hot cake had mixed together, and a bottom layer of moist cake. Most existing Texas sheet cake recipes called for a scant amount of cocoa powder, which makes for measly chocolate taste. We wanted our Texas Sheet Cake recipe to pack in even more chocolate flavor. Doubling the amount of…
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See the RecipeRecipe from America’s Test Kitchen which states, “For bright citrus flavor, successful lemon bars depend on ample amounts of fresh lemon juice, yes, but also a generous amount of lemon zest, which provides round, floral notes. We used four lemons for our lemon curd filling, which yielded a whopping 2/3 cup of juice and 1/4 cup of zest. The other major ingredient for lemon curd is eggs, and lots of them. Two whole eggs and seven yolks gave us a luxurious curd with good thickening properties. To tame the curd’s pucker power and make it ultracreamy, we added a small…
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See the RecipeRecipe that Anna found and made and they were delicious! They’re vegan and gluten-free.
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See the RecipeNY Times recipe from Regina Schrambling who states, “This recipe is adapted from ‘The New Carryout Cuisine’ by Phyllis Méras with Linda Glick Conway. A mere two steps, and ready in less than an hour, it’s comfort in a pan.”
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See the RecipeNY Times recipe by Melissa Clark who states, “Shortbread is not only one of the easiest desserts you can possibly make, it’s also one of the most adaptable. As long as you keep the butter to flour ratio constant (1 stick butter to 1 cup flour), everything else is negotiable. You can reduce or increase the sugar and salt, or mix in any type of flavoring from citrus zest to vanilla to herbs and spices. You can even alter the type of flour, swapping in some rice flour for all purpose flour for increased crunch, or cornmeal for a nubby…
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See the RecipeThese make bars with a thick crust and a thick curd that develops a thin crust on top after baking. They’re good, and a different take on lemon bars, but our family prefers these other more classic lemon bars.
