Desserts

Best Brownies

55 min

Rich, fudgy brownies with a honey-cocoa frosting

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (Dora's)

27 min

Family recipe from Dora — chewy, double-sugar chocolate chip cookies

Classic Caramel Sauce

15 min

Traditional dry-sugar caramel — richer and more complex than brown sugar shortcuts

Easy Caramel Sauce (Ree Drummond)

15 min

No-fail brown sugar caramel sauce — mix everything in a pan and cook; no candy thermometer needed

Grandma's Gingersnap Cookies

29 min

Melt-in-your-mouth ginger cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar — a family recipe since 1899

Hot Fudge Sauce

20 min

Glossy, bittersweet hot fudge sauce with Dutch-process cocoa and real chocolate — Gourmet magazine classic

Kittencal's Brown Sugar Caramel Sauce

8 min

Quick 5-minute caramel sauce with salted butter and heavy cream — richer than the half-and-half version

Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies

34 min

Classic crosshatch peanut butter cookies from Bon Appétit — crisp edges, chewy center, no chocolate

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

30 min

Rich, chewy peanut butter cookies loaded with chocolate chips — adapted from Aunt Cora's World's Best Cookies