Hot Cocoa Cookies
I pulled the first batch out of the oven and pressed a marshmallow into each one while they were still hot, then slid the pan back under the broiler. Ninety seconds later I had to explain to my kid why we couldn't eat them yet. It's a fair complaint. These…
Cinnamon Roll Cheesecake Cookies
I've made a lot of stuffed cookies. Most of them disappoint — you bite in expecting something and find mostly dough with a faint hint of what the filling was supposed to be. These don't do that. The cinnamon roll cheesecake cookies have four things happening at once: a soft,…
Sweet Potato Honeybun Cake
This is the cake I make when I have leftover mashed sweet potato and no plan for it. Two cups of sweet potato go into the batter along with a box of yellow cake mix and a box of instant vanilla pudding, and what comes out is one of the…
Candied Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows
My grandmother never measured anything for this dish. She'd peel four sweet potatoes, slice them, pour some orange juice over them, drop butter in — "enough butter" — and shake brown sugar over the top until it looked right. I asked her once how much cinnamon and she held up…
White German Chocolate Cheesecake Cake
The first time I made this, I wasn't sure it would hold together. A cheesecake layer sandwiched between two rounds of white cake, set on a graham cracker crust, with a cooked coconut-pecan topping pressed into white chocolate frosting on top. On paper it sounds unstable. In practice it's one…
Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Tenders
Three ingredients. One slow cooker. Dinner ready whenever you are. Slow cooker BBQ chicken tenders are the recipe I come back to on nights when I want something that tastes like effort without any actual effort. Season the chicken, pour the sauce over it, turn the slow cooker on, go…
Crock Pot Marry Me Chicken
Marry Me Chicken got its name from the idea that it's good enough to prompt a proposal. I've made this slow cooker version four or five times now and nobody has proposed, but I did get three requests for the recipe in one week, which is about as high a…
Microwave Scrambled Eggs
Microwave scrambled eggs have a reputation they don't entirely deserve. The reputation comes from doing them wrong — too long, too high, no stirring in between — which produces a pale rubbery disc that smells vaguely institutional. Done right, with short intervals and a stir after each one, they come…
