Pureed and strained raspberries give this luxurious whipped dessert a gorgeous pink color and a lovely tanginess to balance the sweet yogurt-cream base.

Georgia Peach Soufflés
Light, airy, messy, delicious, these peach souffles are an elegant (but easy-to-make) ending to a meal. Make them when peaches are dead-ripe delicious.
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Brown-Bag Apple Pie
This pie, baked in a paper bag in the grill, is filled with apples and topped with brown sugar streusel. Impress guests by ripping open the bag at the table.
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Rhubarb with Berries and Candied Ginger
A cinch to make. The rhubarb lends tartness, the berries sweetness, and the ginger some sweet heat.
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Banana Pudding
This homey dessert, straight from the South, consists of layers of bananas, vanilla wafers, and pudding all topped with a pillow of toasted meringue.
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Vanilla-Mocha Café Cake with Cherries Jubilee Sauce
The combination of vanilla, coffee, and chocolate extracts lends great flavor, and the yogurt keeps the mocha cake moist. The cherry sauce is irresistible.
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Iced Cantaloupe Soup with Jalapeño and Basil
A ripe, sweet melon will make this cantaloupe soup a star with its uncommon ingredients. Choose melons that have a sweet, perfumed aroma for maximum flavor.
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Skillet-Roasted Pears with Caramel Sauce
Sometimes the trickiest thing about a recipe is not doing anything—except, that is, exhibiting patience.
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Chocolate-Dipped Candied Citrus Peel
A bittersweet little something to set out after even the swankiest of dinner parties, these candied citrus strips smothered in chocolate boast a velvety zing.
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Buckwheat Crepes with Sauteed Apples and Gruyère Cheese
These crepes, straight from Brittany, are made with richly flavored buckwheat flour and filled to bursting with Golden Delicious apples, onions, and ham.
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Honey-Ginger Apple Tarts with Cinnamon-Sugar Walnuts
Chopped apples, walnuts, and a drizzle of honey give these croustades, or tarts, their wallop of flavor. The crispy, flakey pastry isn’t bad, either.
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Cherry-Vanilla Brioche Pudding with Maple-Star Anise Ice Cream
This bread pudding a refined affair that uses brioche and a custardy sauce, called creme Anglaise. On the side is a maple-and-licorice-flavored ice cream.
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Pear and Walnut Muffins
These roasted walnut muffins are moist and crunchy from the addition of fruit and nuts. Whipped cream adds richness and toasting the nuts deepens the flavor.
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Crepes Suzette
These classic buttery French crepes from Delmonico’s are busting with flavor from candied orange peel, Grand Marnier, and orange juice.
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Mimolette Cheese and Apple-Cranberry Galette
Mimolette is a French cheese similar to Gouda and pairs very nicely with apples and dried cranberries in this galette–a fancy name for a French tart.

Star Anise-Lemon Sorbet
This lemony, aromatic sorbet with Asian overtones never fails to impress. The star anise pairs nicely with the lemon and tempers the sweetness of the sorbet.

Olive Oil Cake with Lemon Curd
This olive oil cake is moist, dense and rich with fruity olive oil, orange, lemon, and almonds. Due to the olive oil, the cake only gets better with age.

Apple-Spice Layer Cake with Caramel Sauce
Wonderful for Christmas, this three layer cake is baked with rich molasses and shredded apple and frosted with a decadent cream and caramel sauce.

Nectarine Sorbet
This rosy nectarine sorbet can be made even more special by the addition of a tipple of red wine and scoops of fresh berries and just sliced nectarines.

