This versatile ingredient is essential for everything from lemon bars and no-bake cheesecake to fudge and frozen treats.

A recipe you’ll turn to over and over again, that’s what this is. It yields a bar cookie with the sweet tastes of chocolate and toffee and the sharpness and crunch of nuts. Served cold, it’s ...

Editor’s Note: Living in the Colorado high country is pure joy. Baking in it isn’t. High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall, and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level.

Imagine a kitchen filled with flan, poke cakes, puddings, cookie bars and the most decadent brownies you've ever tasted. In that kitchen's pantry, there is one common ingredient (or was lol) that ties ...