America's Test Kitchen’s ATK Cooking School demonstrates how to blind bake a tart shell for crisp pastry bases.

Choosing the apples: Crisp, tart varieties like Cosmic Crisp or Granny Smith hold their shape and balance sweetness, making them ideal for pie baking. Perfecting the filling: Precooking apples, ...

To make sure the flour tortilla crust is crisp and caramelized on the bottom, butter and sugar the underside before the pears are added to the top. The pears should be firm but ripe. Some of the ...

This tart, baked in a fluted French tart pan, is my take on a classic American pecan pie made with Mexican chocolate — rustic-textured dark chocolate redolent of cinnamon. Use Ibarra or other Mexican ...