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Berry-Rose Crumble
If you’re wondering how to incorporate more antioxidant-rich foods into your diet, look no further. The perfume of rose water, which you can find in Middle Eastern markets, is irresistible here. Served with yogurt, this is one of my favorite breakfasts. The berries are quite juicy. If you want a thicker syrup, use corn starch or arrowroot.
Rhubarb Crumble With Elder Flower
Gingerbread Cheesecake
The warm, spicy flavors of gingerbread are a natural match for cheesecake. I mean, who doesn’t love a slice of gingerbread cake slathered with cream cheese frosting? This dessert is certainly rich, but it is also packed with lots of spices, including a hefty sprinkle of both ground and fresh ginger, classic cinnamon, allspice that lends a slightly peppery note, and a bit of fresh lemon zest to brighten things up. It can be a little tricky to get the batter completely smooth, so make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature before you start mixing, and take care to bake the cheesecake gently to avoid cracks. The cranberry topping here is optional but it is festive and delicious, and a great little cover-up if the cheesecake does happen to crack. Alternatively, this is great with a bit of lightly sweetened whipped cream or crème fraîche. Slice cheesecake with a clean, hot knife for the tidiest servings.
Sparkly Gingerbread
Made with a combination of fresh and ground ginger, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves, these gingerbread cookies are extra-spicy and very crisp. You could leave them plain, if you like, but painting them with brightly colored royal icing and sprinkling them with sugar makes them shine. Gingerbread keeps better than many other kinds of cookies. These will last for at least 2 weeks — probably even longer — stored in an airtight container at room temperature.
Oatmeal Spice Cookies
Sour-Cherry Crumble
Quinoa-Oat Crumble Topping
Lately I’ve been thinking about desserts and all the after-dinner delights that my gluten-intolerant friends are missing. Pies, for instance: I have yet to come up with a gluten-free pie crust that I like. But crumbles can make a fine alternative, because the topping requires none of the flour that gluten-intolerant diners can’t stomach. Crumbles are easy to throw together and are a perfect destination for seasonal fruit. In this recipe, I use flour made from quinoa — easy to do in a spice grinder — and gluten-free oats, which I ordered from Bob’s Red Mill. Crumbles require little added sugar. So that I can make crumbles on a whim, I make the topping in advance and keep it in the freezer. Bake the crumble halfway through without the topping, then sprinkle it on and finish baking close to serving time. The topping never gets soggy waiting for the fruit underneath to cook. I like to stir leftovers into my yogurt for breakfast. This topping can be used to make any number of delicious, gluten-free crumbles.
Cold Cherry Soup with Mango
Mango Lime Sorbet
This sorbet is tangy and not very sweet. I added only enough sugar and corn syrup to allow the mixture to freeze properly without developing ice crystals.
Gluten-Free Apple Crumble
In this unusual recipe by Alice Medrich, adapted from her gluten-free cookbook "Flavor Flours" (Artisan 2014), a combination of white rice flour and oat flour make for an apple crumble with a distinct crunch and butterscotch-like flavor. Ms. Medrich also uses an interesting technique with the apples, baking them halfway through before adding the crumble mixture, which keeps the walnuts from becoming too dark. She also doesn’t peel the apples, though you may if you’d rather. If you can’t find oat flour, you can make your own by grinding rolled oats in a food processor or blender until powdery.
Mother's Raspberry Tart
Quince Crumble
Pear Ginger Crumble
This is one of my favorite crumbles, the one I make most often once the fruits of summer give way to apples and pears in the fall.
Strawberries in a Mango Sea
A ripe mango gives a bit when pressed, and its fragrance should be heady and sweet. To dice a mango, cut down the broad side of the fruit, slightly off center, from the stem end to the tip end. The knife should slide down against the flat side of the pit. Repeat on the other side, cutting as close to the pit as possible. Cut the flesh from the sides of the pit, following the curve of the pit. Lay each half on your cutting surface and score with the tip of your knife in a crosshatch pattern, down to — but not through — the skin. Lift the mango half, and press on the skin with your thumbs to turn it inside out. Little cubes will pop out on the other side, and you can easily cut them away from the skin. One summer I lived in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and I would gather mangoes from the ground in a park. If I had had a food processor or a blender, I would have made this every day.
Walnut Frangipani
Cherry Rugelach With Cardamom Sugar
These tender, jam-filled confections, adapted from “Rose’s Christmas Cookies” (William Morrow, 1990) by Rose Levy Beranbaum, have a flaky, cream cheese-spiked crust that makes them a little like soft, tiny pastries. This version calls for cherry preserves and some optional walnuts, but you can use any flavor of jam (or nut if you’re so inclined) you like. Apricot and raspberry jam are the most traditional. Rugelach keep well at room temperature for up to one week, or they freeze beautifully for up to six months. (Watch Melissa Clark make her cherry rugelach.)
Apricot Crumble With Oatmeal Topping
Because apricots bake so quickly (the crumble needs only 20 minutes in a 400-degree oven) it’s important to bake the topping for this crisp ahead.
Rhubarb and Berry Crumble
Fruit Crumble With Quinoa-Oat Topping
Peaches or nectarines and blueberries make a beautiful color combination and a nice package of nutrients. The peaches contain vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin K, beta-carotene and potassium, while the blueberries have anthocyanins, compounds that some scientists believe may have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Tropical Oatmeal-Mango Cake
Pumpkin Sticky Toffee Puddings for Two
These rich little date and pumpkin puddings have the texture of soft cake, and are imbued with a brown sugar toffee sauce that’s broiled until bubbling, and, well, sticky. Don’t skip the crème fraîche (or yogurt). That tang is essential for keeping any cloying sweetness at bay.
Blackberry Crisp With Cardamom Custard Sauce
You could use a combination of berries (raspberries, blueberries and blackberries in equal parts) in this crisp, but it especially sings with just blackberries. (Wild blackberries, if you can find them, are even better.) Cardamom perfumes the accompanying rich custard sauce. The warm, musky spice adds a flavor that’s perfect with berries. The crisp needn’t be served piping hot straight from the oven; it’s delicious served at room temperature or just slightly warm.
Poppy-Seed Torte
