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Tiropita (Greek Cheese Pie)Snacks

Tiropita (Greek Cheese Pie)

Feta and ricotta between layers of filo brushed with butter, one sheet at a time. The work is repetitive and the payoff is a top that shatters.

1 hr 15 minServes 8Medium
Chicago Deep-Dish PizzaPizza

Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza

Cheese on the bottom, sauce on the top, and a crust closer to pastry than to bread. Built upside down for a reason — forty minutes in the oven would incinerate cheese left on the surface.

5 hrServes 6Hard
CroissantsBaking

Croissants

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
Deep-Dish Apple PieDesserts

Deep-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
CremeschnitteDesserts

Cremeschnitte

The Lake Bled custard slice: a thick layer of vanilla custard, a cloud of cream, and two sheets of puff pastry. It needs a long chill, and there is no shortcut.

4 hrServes 12Hard