Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Maple-walnut baked apples are the coziest dessert I know: tart apples hollowed and stuffed with maple, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices, then baked until they slump into their own syrup. A spoonful of crème fraîche on top turns each one into a small event. There's...
Marinated oranges in Grand Marnier sauce look like something from a French bistro yet take 20 minutes of actual work: navel orange segments in a honey-cinnamon syrup with lemon peel and a splash of Grand Marnier. Make it in the morning and dessert is already done....
Elegant brandied fruit compote is the make-ahead dessert I rely on for dinner parties: dried apricots, prunes, and golden raisins simmer with apple and citrus peel, then meet banana and a pour of brandy at the end. A spoonful of crème fraîche on top and it's...
Simple two-ingredient chocolate dipped strawberries are the cleverest dessert in the file: half a pound of strawberries, a few ounces of semisweet chocolate, and nothing else. Done right — dry berries, patient dipping — they look like they came from a chocolatier....
This almond raspberry torte is old-world elegance with home-kitchen effort: a low, nutty base of ground almonds and bread crumbs lifted by separated eggs, crowned with raspberries and softly whipped almond cream. It slices into twelve, which is somehow still the hard...
A simple almond peach torte is late summer distilled into cake form: ground almonds in the batter, ripe peach slices set on top, and a cinnamon streusel that bakes into a crunchy lid. Fifteen minutes to put together, and it tastes like more effort than that. There's...
This walnut torte with whipped chocolate ganache is my favorite kind of dessert — rustic on the plate, sophisticated on the palate. The torte is mostly walnuts and eggs, and the instant coffee in the ganache pushes the chocolate deeper without ever tasting like...
This magical chocolate pudding cake bakes its own hot fudge sauce under a cocoa cake layer — one batter, two textures, pure weeknight wizardry. Serve it warm and watch the spoon fights break out. Prepare to be amazed by what I can only describe as pure kitchen magic!...
This delectable pear upside-down cake is autumn on a plate: ripe Bosc or Anjou pears fanned over a dark brown sugar and butter caramel, with a cinnamon-scented butter cake baked on top and flipped while still warm. The reveal never gets old. There's something truly...
Spicy double ginger gingerbread is dark, sticky, and unapologetically ginger-forward, sweetened with both molasses and honey and backed by cinnamon. Serve it warm from the oven or cold from the tin — it somehow gets better at both ends of the week. There's nothing...
The perfect vegetarian carrot cake with cream cheese icing is the celebration cake I could mix in my sleep by now. Seven carrots' worth of grated carrot and a can of crushed pineapple keep the crumb unbelievably moist under the tangy icing, and it still feeds a...
The only blueberry cake recipe you'll ever need is right here: a buttery crumb scented with vanilla and almond, bursting with blueberries under a crackly streusel topping. Fresh or frozen, the berries stain the edges violet and keep the cake moist for days. The...