Baking

The Art of Cheese — Homemade Dill Crackers with Aged Havarti

If you really want to impress with your appetizers this holiday, make your own buttery dill crackers that pairs perfectly with rich Aged Havarti cheese.

Chewy Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies

These White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies look and taste just like Christmas wrapped in a soft, delicious cookie.

Italian Cocoa and Hazelnut Christmas Cookies

These homemade Italian biscuits are something special and even the most simple recipe, like this, becomes delicious when made in various shapes and styles.

Spiced Ginger-Molasses Cookies with Almond Meal

Soft and spiced, these cookies are just like gingersnaps, but made with flavorful almond meal and plenty of earthy molasses.

Sweet Potato Crumble Squares

Skip the sweet potato pie and head straight to bars topped with streusel and drizzled with marshmallow glaze.

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake Tower

This is not just any cookie cake – it’s a chewy, soft, four layer chocolate chip cookie cake with buttercream. Perfect for all ages.

Tres Leches Cornbread Cake with White Chocolate Cherry Popcorn

Tres leches cake is sweet, but cornmeal adds needed balance that catapults it into upper echelons of dessert. Top with maraschino popcorn for great flavor.

Chocolate Nutella Cookies

A touch of sparkle, plenty of sweet Nutella and some chocolate to top it off makes these cookies irresistible, especially during the holiday season.

Pumpkin and Pastis Oatmeal Cream Pies

These cream pies feature pastis, a French star anise apéritif. The liqueur is a complement to the warm spices already found in the oat cookie.

Hong Kong Bolo Bao: Pineapple Bun

Hong Kong Style pineapple buns, also known as Bolo Bao, provides a delicious contrast in taste between the sugar butter topping and soft Asian style bread.

Malted Vanilla Cake with Cardamom and White Chocolate Glaze

A dense cake with a smooth white frosting to finishes it off. Malt perfectly ties vanilla and white chocolate together and cardamom adds a touch of spice.

Ginger Cake Loaf with Rum Caramel Sauce

As Christmas is just around the corner, nothing seems more well-suited than a scrumptious spiced ginger loaf cake.

Almond and Maple Syrup Spice Cake

This cake has all the flavors of cooler weather. A little cinnamon, toasted nuts, and sweet maple syrup form the medley completed with maple icing.

Sugared Cranberry and Orange Upside Down Cake

This cake is dense with subtle orange flavor. The tart cranberries are balanced by a caramel-like brown sugar topping making a beautiful seasonal dessert.

Master French Cuisine: Cheese Soufflé

Discover the basics to creating the savory version of this French delicacy. Remember, whipping is the key.

Aromatic Cinnamon Cake with Hazelnut Cream Filling

A recipe that has the unmistakable scent of cinnamon, filled with hazelnut cream. Soft and delicious, this cake is ideal an ideal dessert.

Apple Spice Cake Cheesecake with Cookie Butter

Apple cake with cookie butter in the batter is swirled with a spiced cheesecake. Cinnamon whipped cream, walnuts and cookies finish this decadent dessert.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie

It’s a gooey in the center, crusted on top cookie in a flaky pie crust. What more could anyone want? Grab a glass of milk and get baking.

Partner Post: Perfection Takes Time — Buttery Brioche and Apricot Jam

The dishes we love, the ‘perfect ones’ are those that really do take time, and are even better when the time is taken to enjoy them, like this loaf of bread

How to Achieve Your Perfect Pie Crust

When sampling holiday pie, it’s easy to tell the difference between homemade pie crust and store-bought. Learn how to create the ultimate version from scratch.

Chef Rudi Sodamin’s Coconut Blondies with Macadamia Nuts

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, a sweet treat with Macadamia nuts is delicious, especially for those who aren’t excited about pumpkin pie.

Miniature Plum Cakes

Individual plum cakes are simply to make and bring vibrant color and rich almond flavor to a fall table.

Crispy Gluten-Free Apple Crisp

This is the perfect recipe for a gluten-free Thanksgiving and it is delicious stirred into your oatmeal the next day, too.

Apple and Cinnamon Twist Bread

Despite looking intimidating, this wreath bread is easy to make and will impress your eaters with its flavor, too.

The Ultimate Layered Apple Cake

Apple cake is an autumn tradition. This is made with olive oil and maple frosting. It may be a bit untraditional, but it is beautiful, and delicious.

A Bite of Fall: Pumpkin Olive Oil Bundt Cake

The olive oil in this cake makes it fragrant and moist without being oily. Enjoy the warm, spicy smell emanating from the oven while it bakes.

Spice Cake with Orange-Vanilla Frosting and Cranberries

This buttermilk spice cake is a beautiful holiday treat. Follow Bowen’s solid baking tips to learn how to create delicious cakes all season long.

Tickle your Tastebuds: Fall Desserts – No Pumpkin Added

For a reprieve from all the pumpkin desserts this Thanksgiving, here is a list of eleven baked goods that use the other sweet fruits of fall’s labor.

Apple and Honey Flower Rolls

These easy flower shaped buns are not only pretty, but they taste amazing, too. With fresh butter to melt on top they’re a smash hit for the fall season.

Warm Cornbread with Honey Butter

Light, fluffy, and oh-so comforting, this cornbread is best served right out of the skillet with whipped honey butter and dunked into chili stews.

Flaky Apple Turnovers with Lemon Glaze

Cinnamon spiced sweet apples inside a flaky pastry crust drizzled with a sweet and tart lemon glaze can be your ultimate indulgence over a weekend.

Apple and Bourbon Bars with a Bacon Shortbread Crust

Unlock the good bourbon and start baking. These bars are a quaint, yet indulgent dessert that finishes with the taste of a buttery, bacon shortbread crust.

How to Make Perfect Tart Dough with Yogurt

Pastry crust made with tangy yogurt creates a delicate taste and a softness that makes the flaky pastry base all the more tempting.

Maple Biscuits with Bacon and Black Pepper

Savory bacon biscuits drizzled with a touch of maple syrup. Perfect for breakfast sandwiches or on their own, this biscuit is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

Ultimate Pocky Cake: Berry and Yogurt Cake with Chocolate Filling

A rich, fudge-like filled yogurt cake decorated with whimsical Pocky sticks can be easily devoured. Perhaps too easily, take caution.

Untraditional Apple Pie Bake

This crunchy, flaky dessert is unique and delicious all the same. This is not your typical apple pie, but has all of the traditional flavors of one.

Gooey Chocolate Chip Banana Cake with Applesauce

This moist and gooey, one bowl wonder cake is chocolate to the max, and fudgy, with a hint of banana flavor throughout. Perhaps just what you need today.

Gluten-Free Oat Fudge Bars

Because sometimes you need a little bit of fudge-y goodness.  And these are definitely fudge-y.

Gluten Free Rosemary Cupcakes with Carrots and Walnuts

Perhaps not as sexy as chocolate, but these cupcakes are delicious. They are moist, earthy and chock full of goodness to make you smile from the inside out.

How to Make Moravian Kolaches

Learn how to make the soft, pillowy kolache pastries make of flaky bread with a custard filling, a plum jam glaze and a crunchy streusel topping.

Chocolate Coffee Cake with Espresso

Food is about sharing and so is this buttery, rich cake topped with cinnamon and chocolate chips. Serve with a cup of coffee or a glass of milk.

Sweet Potato and Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

These rolls are autumnal with earthy, roasted sweet potato. Inside is sticky sweet filling dripping in cinnamon and pecans topped with a cream cheese icing.

Sliced Plum Tartlets with Frangipane

These almond tarts are delicious anytime of the year. For a fall spin, change out the fruit to apples or pears, or even persimmon if you can find it.

Maple-Glazed Baked Pumpkin Donuts

These little guys bake in only five minutes. Seriously, in five minutes you will have donuts topped with a smooth maple glaze.

Delicious Apple Fritter Pull-Apart Bread

From a breakfast bread to an easy dessert, this glazed pull-apart cinnamon and apple bread can be made with your favorite biscuit dough recipe.

Coconut and Pumpkin Bars

Whip of these one bowl wonders for a tasty snack with a taste of autumn.

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Kentucky’s Sugar Cookie

Plan a visit to a Shaker settlement in Kentucky and enjoy hospitality, accommodations and simply-wonderful meals or try their delicious sugar cookie recipe.

Pumpkin and Whey Wheat Bread

From sandwiches to french toast this orange pumpkin loaf with subtle sweetness and a delicate crumb from the whey is a fun bread to make at home.

Chocolate Hazelnut Bundt Cake with Cranberries

A decadent, rich chocolate bundt cake with soft, sweet cranberries, hazelnuts and a glistening ganache to top it all off.

Einkorn and Honey Pumpkin Cake

Just the kind of pumpkin bar you’d want in this season— soft and moist, the right amount of spice, and a slightly sweet frosting that everyone will enjoy.

Pražský Kolác: Cream-Filled Cake with Streusel from Prague

Try your hand at this traditional Czech made up of a yeast-raised cake and a luscious pastry cream filling.

Red Wine Chocolate Cake with Cherry and Lavender Compote

This is a sassy comfort food with a healthy dose of red wine in it, just to elevate that chocolate flavor.

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pastries with Cocoa-Hazelnut Filling

Small, spiced sweets that are perfect to serve after a meal or at tea time made with brown sugar for a golden color and a beautiful aroma.

Fig and Orange Kugelhopf with Spiced Rum

A kugelhopf is a yeast leavened European caked. This recipe is filled with orange zest, almonds, spiced rum, and dried figs.

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Outrageously Delicious Chicken and Waffles Cake

This is next-level delicious, so don’t knock it until you’ve tried. A buttermilk cake with maple frosting, spicy-sage caramel, topped with chicken nuggets

Make Your Own Vanilla Extract

Once you begin making your own vanilla essence, you’ll never buy it again. The flavors are true and clean and it makes the most beautiful gifts.

Salted Caramel Beer Cake with Pears

A cake made with buttermilk can cure an ache and make the blues vanish. Baked atop caramel and sliced pears, there is nothing this dessert can’t accomplish.

Blackberry Whole Wheat Cream Scones

These are everything a cream scone should be – light, soft, moist. The turbinado sugar adds a sweet crunch and the blackberries a burst of freshness.

Orange and Nutmeg Popover Rolls

Let these glorious, soft rolls rise overnight and bake them in the morning to be a breakfast champion.

Pumpkin Seed Oil: Austria’s Secret Ingredient

An Austrian specialty, pumpkin seed oil adds color and nutty flavor to dishes. Drizzle on salads, in ice cream, or try it in this Gugelhupf cake recipe.