If you’re a longtime fan of The Food Charlatan, you’ve probably made at least one of these huuuuge reader favorites. I love them too! These are the kind of recipes I will make year after year, again and again.

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Your favorite cookies

Everyone who makes these falls in love. Get ready for your meet-cute, if these are new to you!

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Pies and cobbler

Holidays just wouldn’t be the same without a big ol’ slice of some amazing dessert in pie or cobbler form. These are your favorites (and mine too).

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Chocolate lovers only

There’s a reason chefs can’t make a restaurant dessert menu without including a chocolate option! If you too are a chocolate lover for life, find a new favorite here to satisfy your cravings.

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Cake and cupcakes

If I had to decide right this minute what would be etched on my tombstone, it would be this: “Her Cake Was Never Dry.” That’s right guys. I am on a MISSION to save the world from dry, bland, not-worth-it cake. Each of these cake and cupcake recipes is tender, moist, flavorful, downright scrape-the-pan amazing.

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