Pastry chef Caroline Schiff joins Bon Appétit to make her perfect chocolate cake: an ultra-moist, four-layer showstopper with silky chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and a glossy chocolate sauce soak. From using oil and sour cream for a soft, tender crumb to balancing dark and milk chocolate with flaky sea salt, Caroline shares her best baking tricks for creating a rich yet surprisingly light chocolate cake from scratch.
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Pastry chef Caroline Schiff shares her ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe using two special ingredients. Discover how brown butter and malted milk powder create irresistibly chewy centers, crisp edges, and deep toffee-like flavor for the perfect cookie.
For more recipes like this one, preorder Caroline’s cookbook Daily Dessert, out 10/13/26: https://www.pastryschiff.com/cookbook/
Join Chris Morocco in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes easy chocolate cake. If you've got a bowl, a cheap hand mixer, and a couple of measuring cups, you can make this rich, chocolatey cake. You can pre-mix batches of the dry ingredients together, store them in airtight containers for up to three months, and be ready to celebrate at a moments notice with your own DIY cake mix.
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Shilpa Uskokovic spent days in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen making tray after tray of red velvet cake to develop her perfect recipe. Watch as she experiments with every variable to arrive at the ultimate red velvet—from the rich chocolatey taste to the fluffiest cream frosting—before publishing it for Bon Appétit.
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Join Rick Martinez in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes blackout cake! According to legend (a.k.a. the Internet), this decadent chocolate cake was first created by Ebinger’s bakery in Brooklyn, New York, and named after the blackout drills during World War II.
Join Food Editor Shilpa Uskokovic as she makes her raspberry cake with whipped cream filling, a recipe that proved so challenging to develop she almost couldn't finish it.
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Claire teaches us the ins and outs of the sweet stuff spread between cake layers, with tropical twists, creamy caramels, and of course, chocolate. Lot and lots of chocolate. As far as cakes go, it’s what’s on the inside that counts! (Well, that and the frosting.)
Sugar artist Ana Parzych joins Bon Appétit for this episode of Handcrafted to demonstrate every step of filling, stacking, and decorating a 5-tier wedding cake in her impeccable style. From building layers of buttercream and applying fondant, to crafting intricate decorative molding and realistic sugar flowers, take an up-close look at the craftsmanship behind the world’s most luxurious wedding cakes.
No need to even touch the oven to make this perfect autumn dessert. Our pumpkin spice icebox cake is easily assembled and unbearably delicious. Get the recipe here: http://slim-weight.today/recipe/pumpkin-spice-icebox-cake
Written recipe coming soon!
Cake made with applesauce is good. Cake made with apple butter—which is basically just super-concentrated applesauce—is so, so much better. Moist and tender, with huge apple-y flavor, this simple spice cake is the ultimate bring-to-your-friend's-house baked good. If you really want your mind blown, serve the slices topped with more apple butter, a dollop of yogurt, and a dusting of cinnamon sugar.
Join Rachel Gurjar in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she makes her plum and lime upside down cake. Juicy plums unite in a luscious sauce with deep caramel notes and sharp lime flavor for an irresistible taste that will call for seconds.
Get Rachel’s full recipe here: Plum & Lime Upside Down Cake
Grated coconut may not be everybody's cup of tea, but there is no denying that this candy is an absolute classic. In this episode, Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet version of Almond Joys, that almond, coconut and chocolate Halloween staple.
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Michael Laiskonis, Creative Director of New York City's Institute of Culinary Education, demonstrates the equipment, ingredients, and artistry essential to making 5 different bonbons.
Join chef Samantha Seneviratne as she makes Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake with Caramel Cream from the home kitchen. Perfect for warmer summer months when turning the oven on is the last thing on your mind, Sam's recipe sees ginger cookies soften into layers of tender cake surrounded by loads of raspberries and lofty caramel cream.
An extra-rich ganache filling in the center of this chocolate cake is what makes it so decadent.
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Join Zaynab Issa as she makes a simple preserved-lemon tea cake in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen, a recipe that put her on the path to joining the BA staff.
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You’re looking at the quintessential June dessert, perfected by the BA Test Kitchen. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
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