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This delicate cake can be prepared a day before serving. Try this easy orange sauce over ice cream, too.

You can steam, grill, boil or broil the shrimp or, even easier, buy them already cooked. Saffron rice and greens mixed with some olives, red onion slices and a garlicky olive oil dressing are perfect side dishes. Sliced oranges sprinkled with a bit of sweet Sherry and paired with some crisp sugar cookies would round out the Spanish-inspired menu.

Inspired by custom-made Indian snacks sold all over Chowpatty Beach.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

This recipe was created to prepare Chocolate Hazelnut Torte with Frangelico Whipped Cream .

It's so easy to make these processor-quick biscuits ahead if you like. Then reheat, split and fill them with ice cream and berries just before serving.

(GERMINUS) Sardinia has many interestingly named sweets, and these cookies called germinus are the most famous of all. They are flatter and chewier than classic meringues and get a crisp accent from the nuts.

Any combination of nuts will work nicely in this winter tart.

When our executive food editor was a little girl, she liked the Christmas cookies at her best friend Allyson's house better than any others. Mrs. Kolbert, whose recipe this is, was apparently the author of much goodness in this world, as it was she who first introduced Allyson's parents to each other.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.