Christmas Tree Cupcakes

Gingerbread houses, meet your match. These festive Christmas Tree Cupcakes serve a similar function as part dessert, part decoration for your holiday table. Moist chocolate …

• 45 Minutes

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Cookies

The arrival of December 1 officially kicks off my holiday baking binge, as I single-handedly strive to keep the flour, sugar and butter purveyors in business. My oven transf…

• 27 Minutes

Puff Pastry Cornucopias with Pumpkin-Coconut Mousse

What better time to splurge with double the decadence than the week before Thanksgiving? On Wednesday I shared a slice of Cranberry Orange Juice Bread, and to keep the Thank…

• 50 Minutes

Cranberry Orange Juice Bread

The countdown rests at T-minus eight days until the biggest food day of the year. It's a day when skinny jeans get the boot, elastic waistbands rule the dinner table and sec…

• 70 Minutes

Pecan Pie Brownies

Imagine this: You're staring down your Thanksgiving dessert table piled high with all of your favorite sweets. So what will it be? A slice of pecan pie? Or a brownie? Good n…

• 45 Minutes

10 Recipes Starring Leftover Halloween Candy

The costumes have come and gone by now, which means all that remains for many of us from the spookiest night of the year is leftover Halloween candy—and plenty of it. Make…

Chocolate-Dipped Pumpkin Seed Brittle with Sea Salt

While I'm all about a well-crafted Halloween costume, I could do without the jack-o-lanterns. The distinctive feel of sticking your bare hand into the slippery, hollowed-out…

• 30 Minutes

Spooky Sweets for Halloween

The Halloween countdown is on, with just 12 days left until the streets swell with vampires, zombies, ghosts and goblins. I'll be missing the Halloween festivities this year…

Red Velvet Pudding with Meringue Bones

Halloween may still be three weeks away, but things are starting to get seriously creepy around here. While developing this recipe, I glanced down at my sink to discover a c…

• 123 Minutes

Espresso Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies

There are days when the minutes fly by so fast, I have all I can do to avoid a Jessie Spano-style meltdown. No time. There's never enough time. Three times out of 10, I usua…

• 27 Minutes