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How To: Totally Terrific Thanksgiving Turkeys

We have a whole arsenal of grown up and sophisticated desserts that are perfect for even the most discerning palatte, but since there's still usually a kid (or one at heart) at our Thanksgiving din...

Honey Butter: Perfect with Popovers (And A Lot More!)

Our craving for popovers last week brought back another craving: honey butter. As kids, this was the must-have accompaniment to popovers in our house. It's so simple to make and yet so completely addi...

8 Cakes To Go With Your Holiday Pies
Plus a Lovely Little Cake Song

There are not many things we love more than our Thanksgiving pies — other than a slice of fabulous cake. Something about Thanksgiving always feels a little less structured with mountains of p...

Break with Tradition: 6 Unconventional Thanksgiving Pies

Feel like shaking things up this year? Here are six decidedly non-traditional pies that would nonetheless look perfectly at home on your Thanksgiving table!...

Recipe: Nanaimo Bars — The Canadian Treat

A few weeks ago we ran across a recipe for Nanaimo Bars. Our first thought was, how on earth do you pronounce that and where can we get some now! The pictures of these snacks were all we could thi...

Cookie Time: 9 Cookies We'd Like to Bake Soon

The cookie-baking switch flipped to the ON position sometime in the last week or two. Maybe it's all the holiday catalogs coming in the mail, or the nip in the air, but some subliminal message has b...

Classy and Irresistible: 8 Very Tempting Bundt Cakes

Did you know this Sunday is National Bundt Cake Day? Let's celebrate this classic confection with one of these oh-so-tempting recipes!...

Can I Make Cheesecake But Skip the Water Bath?
Good Questions

Q: For the past few years I've been making pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving. This year I'm making it for a pre-holiday gathering, and I wanted to know if any of your readers have had experience (a...

Cranberry and Chocolate: Decadent Thanksgiving Desserts
Woman's Day

After a heavy meal like a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, often all the dessert we want is a tiny sliver of pumpkin pie. Decadent is not a word that comes to mind, right after that epic meal. But we ...

8 Treasures and Black Rice: Two Asian Rice Puddings
Gourmet

Cold weather comes around and we drift into rice pudding mode very quickly. It's comfort food, a nursery sweet. While our first allegiance is to Jane Grigson and Laurie Colwin's lemon rice pudding, we...

A Fast Way to Bake Cookies: Use a Waffle Iron
Fine Cooking

We don't have a waffle iron. It's one of those small appliances that's only good for one thing, and we don't eat that one thing often enough to warrant owning one. But if we could use it to make coo...

Great Apple Recipe! Apple Streusel Bars
Recipe Reviews

What are you doing with all those apples you picked out on the farm? How about a batch of sweet, warm, gooey and crumbly apple streusel bars? They worked out well for us!...

Dark, Fudgy Brownies with a Very Unusual Ingredient
Recipe Reviews

Look at these dark, fudgy brownies, all studded with walnut nubs. But look closer: these have a very, very unusual ingredient. Do you know what it is? Hint: these brownies are gluten-free....

Justifiably Classic Recipe: Marian Burros' Plum Torte
Recipe Reviews

We're wild about plum desserts. The plum has enough tang to stay interesting in a sweet dessert, and it also tends to bake into a jammy, gooey texture we adore. So we just had to try this totally clas...

Cookie Art: Painted Sugar Cookies from Martha Stewart

This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited art...

Halloween Recipe: Thomas Keller Oreo Bat Cookies

Looking for a good Halloween sweet to bake up before Beggar's Night? Here's the famous Thomas Keller Oreos (TKO) — crunchy chocolate cookies, with a white chocolate ganache sandwiched in between...

What Desserts Can I Make On the Stove?
Good Questions

Q: I'm an exchange student living in Shanghai for the semester. My kitchen is pretty limited. I have two burners and a fridge/freezer, a frying pan and a cheap pot. And since I only have two months le...

From The Spice Cupboard: Mace

Many of us probably associate "mace" with the defensive pepper spray, but the real mace is actually a pungent spice related to nutmeg! In ground form, it can turn dishes a lovely mustard yellow and ad...

Recipe: Homemade Candy Corn (and Candy Dough!)

Candy corn is one of those Halloween treats that you either love or hate. We happen to enjoy those stratified orange triangles, and have been excited to try out hand at making them at home. But we ...

Trick or Treat! What's Your Favorite Halloween Candy?

Halloween is this Saturday! Have you been surrounding yourself with candy corn and other trick or treat candy? Do you have a favorite Halloween candy, and do you incorporate it into your snacking (and...

An Apple Pie Without the Cheese...

An apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze. Growing up in Texas, I'd never heard this saying until I went off to college in New England, where I was quite surprised the first t...

Cookie Baking: Try Membrillo in Thumbprint Cookies

One of our favorite fall treats is tender little thumbprint cookies filled with jam — a small indulgence, quickly baked, and great with an afternoon cup of tea. We usually fill ours with raspber...

Perfectly Sweet: How to Get a Crunchy Top on Brownies

We love the glossy wafer-thin top crust that sometimes appears on brownies almost as much as we love the fudgy layer underneath. We always thought this was phenomenon was random or particular to speci...

Creamy Decadence: Eight Ice Creams Perfect for Fall

We just acquired a new ice cream maker and there's no way we're waiting until next summer to put it to use! Besides, there are plenty of delicious seasonal ingredients that are just begging to be chur...

Good Tool: Cookie Scoops

Between the baking bug that got us as soon as the weather turned cool and the holiday baking we see looming on the horizon, we're thinking it might be about time to invest in a good set of cookie scoo...

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