Claire saffitz recipes

If you're a fan of soft gooey cookies with a chewy center, then you will love Claire Saffitz's CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE recipe from her cookbook, Dessert Person.

Claire Saffitz named these her “forever” brownies because it took so much work to get them right that she’s vowed to never develop another brownie recipe again.

And the two other must-bake recipes from Claire Saffitz's "Dessert Person."

Toppeed with a brown butter variation of the classic cream cheese frosting, this cake is rich, tender, and full of flavour!

In June of 2019, baker and writer Claire Saffitz was writing her cookbook Dessert Person. “I was feeling really behind on everything, so I took a month away from New York…. I called it my sabbatical,”

This recipe is a detailed roadmap to making bakery-quality light, flaky croissants in your own kitchen. With a pastry as technical as croissants, some aspects of the process — gauging the butter temperature, learning how much pressure to apply to the dough while rolling — become easier with experience. If you stick to this script, buttery homemade croissants are squarely within your reach. (Make sure your first attempt at croissants is a successful one, with these tips, and Claire Saffitz’s…

A gorgeously textured cookie with crispy-edges, a chewy center, toasty pecans, and tiny crispy pecan brittle bits throughout.

Tender, nutty, and studded with caramel-glazed apple halves, Claire Saffitz’s apple cake is the best apple cake. (Yeah, we said it.) Use a cast-iron skillet to caramelize the apples and bake the cake all in one vessel, a win-win. Ground nuts give the cake a toasty, deep flavor and tenderize the crumb by adding fat and countering flour’s glutinous toughness. And one more pro tip from Claire: Use a melon baller, or a sturdy teaspoon measure, to remove the core in the neatest scoop.

Come along for a bread journey into making laminated dough at home and find out before you get in too deep if this recipe is worth attempting. We've curated a quick questionnaire to see if making this project bake of croissants at home is for you. And if it's not, then watching Liz struggle through

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