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Celebrate warm food and sweater weather with a hearty colourful bowl — it's pure comfort on a wintry day.

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Milky, fragrant and extra-warming with its infinitely customizable blend of spices, masala chai hits all the high notes of comfort food. Try a double hit at your next at-home tea time with one of our editor’s family recipes for masala chai and this loaf that concentrates the spicy-sweet flavours in a dense, moist and totally dippable tea cake.

With layers of lusciousness, from the easy cookie crust to scrumptious chocolate curls, this cheesecake spells nirvana for the devoted chocoholic.

The name's a bit misleading: These casual, not-too-sweet cakes aren't coffee-flavoured, they're meant to be enjoyed with coffee instead.

From a stunning baked Alaska to an Insta-worthy vanilla layer cake, these are the recipes we come back to again and again.

Fluffy cake sits atop a surprise layer of citrus-y pudding in this comforting winter dessert.

Wow guests with this moist, decadent Bundt cake.

Our unbelievably moist four-layer carrot cake recipe decked out in white-chocolate cream-cheese frosting is perfect for birthdays, or just because.

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Inexpensive, widely available and more complex than soy sauce, just a few drops of this condiment will amp up the flavour of soups, stews or even a simple bowl of noodles.

These spring buns are light, airy and drizzled with the thinnest (but most delicious) glaze. The fresher from the oven they are, the more addictive every bite will be.