Bar cookies give you more bang for your buck. You can bake a bunch at a time—no juggling hot baking pans and constantly beeping timers—and there's something pleasing about their grid-like nature. It ...

For potlucks, bake sales, or just because, dessert bars are a cut above the rest. Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez Cakes can be fussy, and cookies take some work to portion and bake. But dessert bars?

Each year as the month transitions from November to December, the thought of holiday-time baking reenergizes me for the rest of the year. Esoteric German cakes and breads that take an inordinate ...

Garten shared how to make her lemon bar recipe on the Barefoot Contessa cooking show. “I’m making all kinds of portable food,” she explained. “Including lemon bars for dessert.” On her Barefoot ...

A bar cookie is a thing of beauty. The perfect format for layers, it’s often a one-bowl deal and requires no shaping — just pour the batter into a pan and spread to the edges with an offset spatula.

This article is a part of the L.A. Times 2022 Holiday Bar Cookies. Though making bar cookies is enticing because they require no cutters, spritz guns or other specialized equipment, it still helps to ...

My husband and I are invited to a potluck dinner on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My husband mused that it probably would be a good opportunity to use up all the Turkey Day leftovers. "We could ...