BakingBlueberry Muffins
Mixed until barely combined and baked hot to start, which is what throws up the high domed top. A smooth muffin batter is a failed muffin batter.
45 minServes 12Easy
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BakingVanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream
A reverse-creamed sponge, which coats the flour in butter before any liquid arrives. Less gluten, finer crumb, and a cake that stays tender for two days instead of one.
1 hrServes 12Easy
BakingGlazed Ring Doughnuts
Yeast-raised and fried for barely a minute a side, then glazed while still hot so it soaks in and sets to a thin shell rather than sitting on top as icing.
3 hr 30 minServes 12Medium
DessertsNew York Cheesecake
Dense, tall and barely sweet, baked in a water bath and then cooled with the patience of a saint. Every crack in a cheesecake is a cooling mistake, not a baking one.
2 hrServes 12Medium
BakingBrown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Browned butter, chopped chocolate rather than chips, and a rest in the fridge. Three small changes that turn a decent cookie into one worth the oven being on.
1 hrServes 18Easy
DessertsVanilla Custard Ice Cream
An egg-yolk custard churned to something dense and slow-melting. Shop-bought ice cream is mostly whipped-in air; this is the opposite, and you can taste every bit of the difference.
40 minServes 8Medium
BreakfastFluffy American Pancakes
Buttermilk, a lumpy batter and a pan that is cooler than you think. Three small things that between them add about a centimetre of height.
25 minServes 4Easy
BreakfastBelgian Waffles
Whipped egg whites folded in at the last moment. That is what gives the deep pockets their shatteringly crisp shell and near-hollow inside.
40 minServes 6Medium
BreakfastThick-Cut French Toast
Day-old bread, cut thick, soaked properly rather than dipped. Stale bread is not a compromise here — fresh bread turns to mush in the custard.
25 minServes 4Easy
DessertsCremeschnitte
The Lake Bled custard slice: a thick layer of vanilla custard, a cloud of cream, and two sheets of puff pastry. It needs a long chill, and there is no shortcut.
4 hrServes 12Hard
Hot drinksRich Dark Hot Chocolate
Made with chopped real chocolate rather than cocoa powder, and thickened with nothing but the chocolate itself. Thick enough to coat the spoon.
15 minServes 2Easy
BakingOverripe Banana Bread
The blacker the bananas the better the loaf. Melted butter instead of creamed, one bowl, and no mixer to wash up afterwards.
1 hr 15 minServes 10Easy