Season 5

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  Four-Star Desserts

  Watch as we take two modern classic desserts —a chocolate volcano cake and caramelized pears—and make them approachable for the home cook.

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  Pumpkin Cheesecake

  We wanted to develop the perfect pumpkin cheesecake recipe, but we never figured it would take 30 cheesecakes—that’s more than 11,000 grams of fat and 150,000 calories—to develop a great recipe worthy of the finest holiday dinner.

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  There's a Hole in Your Cake

  Cakes baked in Bundt and tube pans are popular for a variety of reasons. These pans make cakes that are especially attractive, and the cakes themselves tend to be pretty simple to prepare. In this episode, we make angel food cake and a chocolate Bundt cake.

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  Holiday Cookies

  The holidays are stressful enough. Dough that sticks to the rolling pin, cookies that melt together in the oven, and glazes that refuse to set up just won’t do. We create a foolproof rolled butter cookie dough that tasted great and can be turned into an array of different cookies.

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  Bake Sale Favorites

  Brownies are too often dull, and blondies (as well as congo bars, their coconut-flavored cousins) can be even worse, since they are even plainer. When we created recipes for these favorite bake sale items, we kept things simple while focusing on developing superior flavor and texture.

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  Ultimate Sticky Buns

  A sticky bun should be neither dense nor bready, neither saturated with butter nor so sugary that it makes your heart race. The crumb should be tender and feathery and the sticky glaze gently chewy and gooey. Anything less than a great sticky bun is not worth its calories. Here’s how we made ours.