ready in about an hour and a half; serves 20
You might need to buy:
  • firm butter or margarine
  • Key lime juice or lime juice
  • grated lime peel

MAKES 30 COOKIES

The hazelnuts will continue to toast while the biscotti bake, so toast the nuts only until they are just fragrant.

You might need to buy:
  • dried lavender flowers
  • water
  • Vegetable oil spray
ready in about 35 minutes; serves 4
You might need to buy:
  • sugar
  • ground cinnamon
  • caramel flavored topping

Any easy way to make a wonderful comfort food using those abundant fall apples. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

You might need to buy:
  • all-purpose flour
  • light brown sugar
  • white sugar
  • ground cinnamon
  • ground nutmeg
  • salt
  • chopped walnuts
  • cornstarch
  • ground ginger
  • ground cinnamon
  • lemon juice
ready in about 40 minutes
You might need to buy:
  • Brownie Mix
  • peanut butter
  • ingredients from brownie mix package

SERVES 8 TO 10

Chill the assembled cake for at least 3 hours to make it easy to cut and serve.

You might need to buy:
  • CAKE:
  • whole milk
  • half-and-half
  • PASTRY CREAM:
  • GLAZE:
  • heavy cream
  • light corn syrup
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You might need to buy:
  • powdered sugar
  • cocoa
  • white Karo syrup
  • run
ready in about 35 minutes; serves 18
You might need to buy:
  • unsalted butter

Cook’s Note

Use flour on utensils to keep dough from sticking: Dip the cookie cutters, and dust the spatula before transferring uncooked dough to a sheet. Rolling dough between two sheets of floured parchment will keep it from sticking to the rolling pin.

ready in about an hour and 40 minutes; serves 32
You might need to buy:
  • Ingredients
  • baking powder
  • salt
  • unsalted butter