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Pear Crumb Cake
When it comes to crumb cake, the cake itself is often an afterthought, with all the attention going to the moist brown-sugar crumbles on top. Not so here. This recipe, based on a sour cream pound cake, has a velvety texture and buttery flavor that’s good enough to stand on its own. Of course, the thick pile of large crumbs only sweetens the deal, as does the juicy layer of honey and lemon-spiked pears in between the cake and crumbs. You can bake this cake a day or two ahead; keep it loosely wrapped at room temperature (the refrigerator will make the crumbs soggy). And if you don’t like pears, feel free to substitute about a cup of any gently cooked fruit you do like – apples, fuyu persimmon, pineapple, blueberries, grapes, even leftover cranberry sauce – will all work nicely.
Classic Sugar Cookies
Everyone needs a good sugar cookie recipe. If you can master the very simple technique behind this one dough, you have several variations at your disposal, most likely without a trip to the grocery store.
Brown Sugar-Pecan Shortbread Cookies
Lovers of pecan sandies will adore these crisp, buttery treats that are a cinch to put together. The recipe is an adaptation of one developed by Dorie Greenspan for her book, “Baking: From My Home to Yours.” Not fond of pecans? Try hazelnuts or almonds instead.
Mexican Shortbread Cookies
Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches
For a modern grown-up version of the chocolate-chip cookie ice cream sandwich, I scooped ice cream into sliced baguettes, then drizzled it with sea-salt-strewn chocolate nut spread. The result is sweet, savory, sophisticated and laughably easy, just like grasshopper pie — even if its color isn’t quite as dramatic.
Sedgemoor Easter Biscuits
These Easter cakes are from Sedgemoor in Somerset, in the southwest of England. A kind of cross between a scone and shortbread, and liberally studded with currants, they are meant to be nibbled alongside chocolate Easter eggs. And whether they are made at home or bought in a bakery, tradition has it that they should be bundled in threes and tied with ribbon, to represent the Holy Trinity.
Saks' Signature Cheesecake
Mary Encinger's Brownies
Mousse au Chocolat Amer (Bitter chocolate mousse)
Pecan Tassies
Pecan tassies are bite-size pecan pies disguised as cookies. With a simple crust that’s both tangy and rich, thanks to cream cheese and butter, and a not-too-sweet maple-infused pecan filling, they go down easy and by the handful.
Orange Butter Cookies
The most common mistakes made by home bakers, professionals say, have to do with the care and handling of one ingredient: butter. Creaming butter correctly, keeping butter doughs cold, and starting with fresh, good-tasting butter are vital details that professionals take for granted, and home bakers often miss.
Strawberries With Brown Butter Shortcake
This recipe came to The Times from David Guas, a New Orleans chef. He substitutes a spongecake enriched with browned butter for crumbly shortcake. And instead of simply seasoning raw berries with sugar, he cooks them lightly over steaming water with orange zest, which fills the kitchen with the smell of warm, simmering fruit.
Mint or Basil Ice Cream
Blackcap Pudding
Crispy Orange Coconut Balls
In the world of Sandra Lee, a cookbook author and self-proclaimed “lifestylist,” life is hectic and people are busy, so she cooks semi-homemade food. “The Semi-Homemade cooking approach is easily done by combining several prepackaged foods, a few fresh ingredients, and a ‘pinch of this with a hint of that’ to make new, easy, gourmet-tasting, inexpensive meals in minutes,” she said. The Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style chocolate icings that Ms. Lee calls for in her Crispy Orange Coconut Balls (truffles, really) do not allow you to have control over the quality of the chocolate — the main flavor of the dessert. If you would like more control of that flavor, try this riff, developed by Amanda Hesser.
Apples With Calvados and Ice Cream
Salty-Sweet Peanut Butter Sandies
This modern classic is reverse-engineered from a cult cookie at City Bakery in Manhattan. They are saltier, richer and tangier than the usual crisscross rounds, thanks to updated ingredients like sea salt, cultured butter and brown sugar. And like any good “sandy” cookie, they have a soft, crumbly texture that melts away on first bite.
Salted Butter Caramels
Candy can be made by cooks of all skill levels, as long as they don't mind standing and stirring for what can seem like an eternity (but is really only 20 to 30 minutes).
Lora Brody's bete noire (A special chocolate cake)
Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Cranberry Tart
This is a tart not just in shape but also in flavor, because the berries remain whole, bound in a lightly candied filling. It would provide a brightly refreshing finale to a holiday meal.
Natasha And Atrina's Gingerbread Cookies
