3,263 smelt recipes

Triple-chocolate bundt cake with melted chocolate bars, chocolate syrup, and a tender buttermilk crumb. Baked in an angel food pan for a tall, dramatic cake that delivers serious chocolate intensity.

Pecan pie bars: shortbread crust topped with classic gooey pecan pie filling, baked in a sheet pan and cut into 36 holiday bars. All the flavor of pecan pie, none of the slicing drama.

Dilly casserole bread for the bread machine, a savory cottage cheese yeast loaf flecked with dill seed and onion. A 1960s Pillsbury Bake-Off winner reimagined.

Chocolate chess pie: classic Southern chess pie with cocoa, evaporated milk, and butter. Six-ingredient custard pie with a crackly top and rich fudgy center.

Easy coffee cake builds a quick monkey bread-style bundt from refrigerated biscuits dipped in melted butter and pecan-brown sugar, then baked into a sticky pull-apart loaf. A four-ingredient brunch shortcut for sleepy mornings.

Nut kolachky filling is a traditional Eastern European walnut filling for kolachky cookies and pastries. Ground walnuts, egg whites, sugar, and melted butter mixed into a thick paste.

Baked sesame chicken with a sour cream and garlic marinade, then coated in seasoned breadcrumbs and toasted sesame seeds. Crisp outside, juicy inside, no frying.

Cheddar tuna au gratin with a paprika-spiked cheese sauce, cottage cheese for extra protein, and buttered bread crumb topping. Old-school pantry casserole that comes together with everything in the cupboard.

Ring-A-Ling Ringers are quick Bisquick shortcakes with a deep thumbprint filled with spiced prune filling, apricot, or raspberry jam. A retro biscuit pastry ready in under an hour.

Coconut chocolate cheesecake layers a graham crust, chocolate cream cheese filling studded with coconut, and a tangy brandy sour cream topping. Tropical decadence in three layers.

Fruit nut breakfast bars with rolled oats, chopped almonds, and golden raisins bound with brown sugar and a hit of almond extract. Make-ahead bars that beat any granola bar in the cereal aisle.

Sundae brownie pie bakes a fudgy brownie batter loaded with chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and nuts right into a pie crust. Served warm with ice cream, it's a scoopable sundae in pie form.

Chocolate wafer crumb crust for cheesecake: three ingredients (crushed chocolate wafers, sugar, melted butter) pressed into a springform pan. The go-to base for mocha and chocolate cheesecakes.

Almond crisp bars with rolled oats, coconut, and toasted almond pieces in a buttery brown sugar base. Six ingredients pressed into a pan, baked, and cut while warm into chewy-crisp squares.

Steak au poivre, sirloin pressed with a bold crust of cracked peppercorns, chilled overnight, then seared and oven-finished. Sliced thin and brushed with a bright lemon butter, this is French pepper steak done simply.

Cloverleaf refrigerator rolls: soft, tender potato yeast rolls shaped three balls to a muffin cup so they pull apart into clover-leaf petals. The make-ahead dough chills overnight for fresh-baked rolls on demand.