This Holiday Season, Why Not Make a Pumpkin Jelly Roll Cake?

America's Test Kitchen pumpkin roll recipe

Perhaps the most famous holiday cake is the Yule Log, which, for good reason, gets trotted out every holiday season. There’s much to be said for this classic, but we wanted to develop a unique variation for the holidays with a pumpkin jelly roll cake encasing a simple filling. [FLEX-CONTENT] We initially thought incorporating pumpkin…

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The Trick to Getting Velvety Pumpkin Soup is Canned Pumpkin

America's Test Kitchen recipe for 11th-hour harvest pumpkin soup

This velvety pumpkin soup is surprisingly easy and fast thanks to canned pumpkin. The trick is getting rich, balanced pumpkin flavor out of a can. We started by creating a deeply flavorful base for our soup by softening onion and then adding cumin, coriander, and nutmeg, which gave us a warm-spiced flavor that paired well…

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Start a Classic Brunch with a Stack of Airy, Tangy Pancakes

classic buttermilk pancakes

A stack of fluffy, golden pancakes is the perfect starting place for a standout brunch, delivering piping hot cakes with distinct sweet tang and an open, airy texture. Buttermilk was a must. It contributed to the pancakes’ flavor and, with some leavening help from small amounts of baking powder and baking soda, it also created…

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You can get great meaty, bold chili thanks to a multicooker

easy beef chili

Great chili should have bold, long-simmered flavor, even if it’s made with convenient ground beef. The multicooker was the perfect way to achieve this with a minimum of hands-on time. A combination of chili powder, cumin, and garlic was all we needed to give the chili great spice flavor. We used crushed tomatoes plus chicken…

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Adore Pumpkin Cheesecake? Make a Portable Version

recipe for pumpkin cheesecake bars

With a tangy, rich flavor and velvety consistency, cheesecake’s characteristic qualities make it well-suited to variation: Lemon cheesecake, chocolate cheesecake, and berry cheesecake are all common. But our favorite variation might just be pumpkin cheesecake. [FLEX-CONTENT] We love the way the tangy cream cheese offsets the warm-spiced pumpkin, and we set out to create a…

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