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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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    Bake With Pumpkin

    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin Muffins With Streusel Topping
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake

    Apple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Slicing into an Italian apple cake to serve it.
      Old-Fashioned Apple Yogurt Cake
    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife
      Apple Crumble Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • Apple butter pie stencilled with icing sugar.
      Apple Butter Pie

    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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