BakingBalkan Flatbread (Lepinja)
Soft, thick Balkan flatbreads with a lightly crisp crust, made for tearing apart and soaking up sauces.
2 hrServes 4Easy
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SidesBeer-Battered Onion Rings
Cold beer, a lumpy batter and oil that never drops below 180°C. The bubbles in the beer are doing structural work, so mix it at the last possible moment.
40 minServes 4Medium
SnacksCrispy Baked Chicken Wings
Baking powder and an overnight sit in the fridge, and the skin comes out of the oven as crisp as fried. No pan of hot oil, no clearing up afterwards.
1 hr 30 minServes 4Easy
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
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
BakingBerliner Doughnuts
No hole, filled after frying, and marked by a pale stripe around the middle that tells you the lid was on. Germans judge a Berliner by that stripe before they taste it.
3 hr 30 minServes 12Medium
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
BakingCroissants
Two days, three folds, and one rule that governs all of it: butter and dough must stay the same softness. Everything that goes wrong with croissants goes wrong there.
15 hrServes 12Hard
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
DessertsDeep-Dish Apple Pie
Two kinds of apple, cooked down before they go anywhere near the pastry. That precooking is the whole answer to the hollow dome every apple pie threatens to become.
2 hr 30 minServes 8Medium
PizzaWhite Pizza with Ricotta and Garlic
No tomato at all. Ricotta, garlic oil and mozzarella, finished with lemon zest and rocket so it never tastes as heavy as it sounds.
25 hrServes 4Medium