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Best way to store cake Your chocolate layer cake always earns rave reviews from your gang, but even after everyone’s had seconds, there’s usually still some left over. To keep it from drying out on the counter, try this simple trick: Secure a slice of sandwich bread to each exposed side of the cake using toothpicks. The bread will hold in the cake’s moisture, ensuring it stays fresh and delicious for days.

Juicy-ripe kiwi are so soft that it can be tough to remove the skin with a knife or vegetable peeler. An eas-ier way: Trim off both ends, then slide a spoon between the peel and the flesh and turn the kiwi, pressing the back of the spoon against the peel as you go. The whole fruit will pop out in one go!

Peel kiwi in seconds

Even when you go to the trouble of brining the meat, the white meat on your roast chicken comes out a little dry. Next time, try applying an ice pack to each of the breasts for 1 hour before cooking. Lowering the temperature ensures the breasts cook at the same rate as the dark meat, so you’ll get perfectly juicy, tender results every time.

Key to juicier roast chicken

Chungah’s “noodle” soup with 70% fewer carbs

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Numbers reflect one bowl of soup made with zucchini noodles instead of egg noodles

Calories cut: 42

Carbs cut: 7.7 grams

Vitamin C added: 17 mg

For a slimming take on chicken noodle soup, Chungah Rhee, author of Damn Delicious, swaps in low-carb zucchini spirals for the pasta. “[This soup] is super cozy, comfort-ing and healthy—except it doesn’t even taste healthy,” she promises. To do: Use a spiralizer or julienne peeler to cut 3 medium zucchini into noodles. Prepare your favorite chicken soup recipe as usual and add “zoodles” during the last 5 minutes of cooking.

Chungah Rhee

Toss-together terrific: Berry cobbler in half the time

Top with 1 (16 oz.) can refrigerated biscuits

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In 8" pan, toss 2 (12 oz.) bags frozen mixed berries