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Any cook obsessed with convenience will tell you the easiest way to make a cake is to combine cake mix with carbonated soda. Just those two ingredients alone open up a window of possibilities. Think about it: any cake flavor plus any bubbly soda pop and you’ve got a fast dessert! I tested this easy cake hack with a flavor combination I’ve always loved: chocolate cherry. What happens when you ditch the eggs and oil for a can of cherry cola? Let’s find out. For those of you curious how a 2-ingredient chocolate cherry cake turns out, keep scrolling! In…

It’s a tale as old as time: it’s a busy weeknight, and you don’t have the time nor the energy to dwell in the kitchen. You want something fast and filling in 20 minutes. You want to incorporate the basic food groups. You don’t want to use a lot of dishes or ingredients. Then a knight in shining armor appears…no, wait: it’s a nice warm bowl of smoked sausage and spinach pasta made with just 4 ingredients. Why This 4-Ingredient Pasta Works Let’s cut to the chase. This pasta recipe covers your bases in a simple way: The Visual Lineup…

Some of the best recipes come from the most unexpected places. This one came from a piece of notepad paper — the kind with a pharmaceutical letterhead — tucked inside one of the recipe binders belonging to my late grandmother. The letterhead made sense: she spent a lot of her final years in and out of doctor’s offices. The recipe was simply labeled “Mock Pecan Pie,” sometimes also called No Pecan Pie, and I didn’t realize something like that existed. As someone with a tree nut allergy, I’ve always had to skip traditional pecan pie at gatherings. So when I…