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This is my favorite kind of bakery cookie — filled with jam, dipped in chocolate and rolled in sprinkles. They’re so easy to make, and so delicious when homemade, that you'll never want to buy them again.

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A ridiculously simple pasta with fresh mushrooms, garlic, chives, and crème fraîche that's always in heavy rotation because it's the easiest way to turn a bag of mushrooms into a meal that, by some miracle, everyone loves. I hope it's a hit for you, too.

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the smitten kitchen cookie spectacular plus: hanukkah + an interview with dorie greenspan

In this week's newsletter, it's The Smitten Kitchen Cookie Spectacular, one dozen of my forever favorite, failproof cookie recipes that are perfect for the season. Plus, a few Hanukkah go-tos, and an interview with one of the greats: Dorie Greenspan.

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Did someone order a showstoppper? This tart is as simple as puffed pastry, apples, butter and sugar. It tastes, however, like the highest calling of all four due to an (easy, I promise) copper-colored salted caramel topping that bakes back onto the tart.

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For peak December coziness, I merged two of my favorite things: onion soup and braised short ribs, into a decadent, rich stew-like soup that's as welcome at a casual drop-in as a big holiday dinner. Or, make it to just spoil yourself - you deserve it.

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The last banana bread recipe we will ever need has a towering height and a crunchy top that will be hard not to lift off in one giant tile and swiftly coat the underside with salted butter. The inside is plush and perfectly-crumbed, but never squidgy.

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A cookie that apologizes in advance to the other cookies in your tin; they’re terrible at sharing the spotlight. These checkerboard cookies are as fuss-free (cold butter, clean counters) and delicious as I could possibly make them.

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An "unholy, resistance-melting aroma of melted, bubbling cheese" emanating from a lightweight custard that's burnished and nearly crisp on top -- oh, and there's cauliflower and caramelized onions burrowed in there too.

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Everything dreamy about cinnamon buns in a full pan of salted butter and brown cinnamon sugar ribbons and twists. As they fan open in the oven, the filling lightly caramelizes and crisps. Cream cheese icing on the side, because these are too pretty to cover.

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A three-ingredient, perfectly cozy, gorgeously-hued cocktail that's become my absolute favorite. It's a cousin to the Negroni, but it uses bourbon or rye instead of gin. The result is more mellow and 100% perfect for right now.

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the weekly yap 13 Friday, December 5 , 2025

This week, the Yap is back and it's to the brim with diversions: a great restaurant, off-broadway show, two movies, two earworms, a viral recipe, and inspiring bake-off at the Metropolitan Opera. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.

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The secret to making unsticky perfectly-spiced nut mixes that pack up perfectly for gifts with a long shelf life? An egg white. These are a 15 year-plus favorite for gifts and treats.

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These french onion baked lentils are farro are a dream of a winter dish, perfect for a dinner party. It's loose like risotto, hearty enough to be utterly filling, and tastes precisely like french onion soup, blistered broiled gruyere on top and all.

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The easiest, fastest, and tastiest sparkly sugar cookies. A few cool techniques do away with the usual peskiness: We start with cold butter, chill the dough quickly, don't even flour our counters. And these use no cookie cutters or piping bags either!

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Great steak fry-like wedges of sweet potatoes roasted with honey, lime and chile flakes, topped with crispy chickpeas and yogurt to make an easy but complex meal you probably won't even want to share. (We won't tell if you don't.)

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A casserole, but not the boring kind. Here, I switched out pasta for a whole grain and ended up with a cozy, wildly flavorful, cheesy, crunchy-topped dinner that we make again and again.

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10 great things to cook in december plus: pumpkin basque cheesecake + an interview with tamar adler

n this week's Smitten Kitchen Digest, I've got a top ten list of favorite things to cook in December, plus a new recipe for the easiest ever pumpkin basque cheesecake, and an interview with Tamar Adler, whose new book, Feast on Your Life is out tomorrow.

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Potato leek soup, my way: The kind of hearty, cozy soup needed on a rainy day plus a few strong opinions on sour cream, chives, and lemon (they're essential) and the crispy topping nobody can resist.

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For some instant joy right now, may I recommend a really easy sprinkle cookie recipe that tastes even better than it looks? They're plush, complex, fragrant, and also, you know, really cute decked out in holiday sprinkles. You're going to love them.

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A sky-high vegetable lasagna, five layers of noodles, sauce, cheese, and vegetables (that are not an afterthought, for once). The top layer is crackly with melted, deeply bronzed cheese over garlicky tomato sauce and might be the very best reason to make this.

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Easy-peasy cornbread waffles that can go sweet (sautéed bananas, maple syrup), savory (cheddar, salsa, avocado) or a little of both (fried chicken, hot honey, please). I think we should. [Thank you @joythebaker!]

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They keep really well frozen. You can cut before or after. After might be cleaner and less susceptible to freezer smells.

A bright, crunchy and abundantly welcome contrast to the richness of the usual Thanksgiving fare, this is a forever winter staple.

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A dinner roll that springs open in the oven like a fan with buttery pull-apart segments looks fancy but is so simple to make. I hope you get obsessed with them, too.

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New! A dream of a pumpkin basque cheesecake that rewards last-minute planners with speed and ease. Almost halfway to pumpkin pie in flavor yet still a basque cheesecake, burnished edges and sunken-by-design center and all.

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last-minute thanksgiving ideas plus: crunchy brown butter carrots + an interview with diane kochilas

In this week's SK Digest, we're rewarding the last-minute planners among us (hi!) with a collection of recipes that don't require much thinking ahead. This week, we’re also chatting with Diane Kochilas, whose cookbook, Athens, is out now and I want to move into it.

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I rarely saw straight-up cranberry pies so I made my own. I found that the secret to a great one was an even better contrast. This is topped with a thick crumble of oats, toasted pecans, cinnamon, brown sugar and butter and it's heavenly against the tart berries.

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The spinach is buttery with a layer of crispy crumbs and cheese on top but manages to stay unheavy. It keeps and reheats fantastically, not that there are ever leftovers. The updated recipe includes instructions for using frozen spinach so it's easier than ever.

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challah french toast A classic recipe for an impossible to mess up challah french toast plus two dreamy toppings — a quick berry sauce and whipped vanilla bean cottage cheese — that make it better than we can get at a …

It makes two; you can use one for the stuffing and the other for the best french toast of your life.

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best challah (egg bread) When was the last time you made a braided, bronzed, and burnished loaf of challah? Consider this your starter — or forever — recipe.

Want to take it one step more luxe? Make my best challah (egg bread) in the archives.

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