Make a Perverted Trifle With Pop-Tarts
A trifle is the hot-mess-best-friend of desserts. It would be all over the place if it wasn’t for the giant bowl holding it together, but the good qualities outweigh the…
15 Ways You Should Be Eating Whipped Cream (but Aren’t, Sadly)
Though they’re known as “the spice rack of the bar cart,” cocktail bitters are nothing more than concentrated botanical extracts, and you can use them to flavor all sorts of…
Make This Casual, No-Bake Slab of Cheesecake
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann Cheesecake is great. Cheesecake that sets without you needing to use the oven is, frankly, fantastic. This no-bake cheesecake is built in a slab style, which…
Make This No-Bake Fall Dessert If You Suck at Decorating
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann Tricky dessert recipes can spell trouble, and frankly, my oven is busy enough already during the holidays. Instead of making finicky desserts, let’s make one that’s…
Your Cocktail Needs a Meringue Float
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann There are a dizzying number of ways to make a cocktail look fancy–egg white fizz, cabernet float, an Angostura bitters drawing of your face, or simple…
Barbra Streisand’s Retro Ice Cream Hack Is Pretty Incredible
Photo: Claire Lower Aesthetically, my home is what you would describe as “decorated by a horny grandma.” I love vintage things, tacky things, and tacky vintage things, which is why…
You Should Make This No-churn Pop-Tart Ice Cream
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann I recently wrote about the summer’s best Pop-Tart prep technique–freezing them–and it seems like that just wasn’t cold enough for Lifehacker readers. Frozen Pop-Tarts are deliciously…
You Need Spoon Cake This Summer
The best cake topping is whipped cream. It’s light, delicate, mildly sweet, and works with everything from angel food cake to double chocolate mousse. Glazes, frostings, and cream cheese icings…
Three of the Most Decadent Single-Serving Dessert Recipes
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann Valentine’s Day is, among other things, a great excuse to eat obscene amounts of chocolate (as is any day before or after Valentine’s Day). Relationships are…
An Ode to Ambrosia, the Salad You Make With Cool Whip
My now ex-husband met his first ambrosia salad at a buffet in Aberdeen, Mississippi, after Sunday school at my grandparent’s church. He’d grown up in Virginia and Florida, two states…