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    Milk Bar Recipes

    Here are some of the best Milk Bar recipes by famous pastry chef Christina Tosi (including the infamous Milk Bar pie and the Milk Bar birthday cake). There are also a few creative Milk Bar-inspired recipes, like these maple cookies and this orange pie.

    • Maple cookies cooling on a sheet pan.
      Maple Sugar Cookies
    • Christina Tosi's compost pound cake rectangular loaf cake with potato chips, pretzels, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, oats, and coffee, on a small cooling rack on parchment paper
      Christina Tosi's compost pound cake
    • Banana split layer cake with layers of chocolate fudge filling and banana, and maraschino cherries on a white cake stand.
      Banana split cake
    • Milk Bar pie sliced and ready to serve.
      Milk Bar pie (formerly Crack pie)
    • Orange pie with saltine crust and topped with orange marmalade glaze.
      Orange pie
    • Momofuku Milk Bar birthday cake
      Homemade Momofuku Milk Bar birthday cake for my 30th
    • Milk crumbs on a Momofuku Milk Bar style cake-layers of blackberry curd, almond cake, and almond frosting
      Blackberry almond cake — Milk Bar style
    • Momofuku Milk bar birthday cake truffles recipe made from cake scraps
      Birthday cake truffles: what to make with leftover cake
    • Compost cookies made with potato chips, chocolate chips and graham cracker
      Momofuku Milk Bar compost cookies
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    Make Marmalade

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three fruit marmalade

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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