Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Chocolate magic shell does seem like something ...

I still enjoy several childhood pleasures: twisting apart an Oreo, pumping my legs to go higher on the swing, receiving an honest-to-goodness piece of snail mail. But none satisfies me as much as the ...

As a kid, I was obsessed with Magic Shell, that liquid chocolate you poured over your ice cream that would immediately turn into a hard and crunchy cocoa shell as soon as it hit the ice cream. Like, I ...

Crackly, sweet and absolutely sorcery-like, there's a reason why Magic Shell is a core dessert memory for so many adults. With all due respect to ice cream sundaes topped with whipped cream or molten ...

You know when the chocolate magic shell first appeared on grocery store shelves and if you were, say, a middle schooler pretty into ice cream sundaes, it was basically the best invention to have ever ...

This is for anyone who's ever dipped fries in a milkshake. Homemade (and microwavable!) magic shell adds class on top of class. Technique tip: The magic shell keeps in an airtight container at room ...