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Ina Garten has the easiest recipe for a rich, chocolatey dessert that requires no baking and includes a store-bought shortcut. It’s big on flavor but light on prep time, making it an ideal dessert to ...

Here's a pro baker's secret that you can easily use at home to make the best chocolate cake: Bloom the cocoa powder. Blooming cocoa powder sounds like a fancy pastry chef technique, but all it means ...

Maybe because she’s too busy partying in her Manolo Blahnik shoes, punk princess Marie Antoinette, as conceived by filmmaker Sofia Coppola, never offers cake to the angry rabble. But she does put away ...

From cakes to cookie bars to pies and even cheesecakes, you’ll be able to master these 93 easy dessert recipes in no time.

Garten demonstrated how to make her bittersweet chocolate cake on an episode of Barefoot Contessa. “I’m putting a new spin on a decadent, rich, and elegant bittersweet chocolate cake that everyone ...

Our really easy chocolate cake recipe is perfect for birthdays. It’s so moist, dark and decadent and will keep well for 4–5 days. For buttercream quantities, instead of ganache, use our cake ...