Desserts

This life-changer of a recipe isn’t your mom’s banana bread. It’s better. And we’ve got no qualms saying that.

• (15)
• 25 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 44

Crunchy, sweet, salty, buttery, and nutty all in one. And it comes together in just 30 minutes, which makes it quite practical to toss together batch after batch for gifts if, like us, you get a little carried away with sampling.

• (1)
• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 2

This gingerbread Bundt cake has all the warm spicy goodness of gingerbread cookies. And, as if that wasn’t enough, it’s gilded with a sassy sweet-tart citrus glaze.

• (5)
• 45 M
• 1 H, 35 M
• 10

The classic cookie benefits enormously from a hit of ginger here with these surprise sleeper hits of your Christmas season.

• (11)
• 30 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 26

A gooey, sweet, classic bread made from pull-apart blobs of brioche dough coated in a buttery, cinnamony caramel sauce that’s gonna distract you in the best possible way.

• Quick Glance
• 45 M
• 7 H, 5 M
• 0

We’ve been wobbly in the knees for these sweet and shatteringly crisp little Spanish olive oil tortas. And now that we know how to make them at home, we can’t decide if that’s a good thing or not…

• (4)
• 30 M
• 50 M
• 44

Elegant enough for company, simple enough for every day, and versatile enough for breakfast and midnight snack and pretty much every moment in between.

• (3)
• 30 M
• 2 H
• 17

A quick bread that pretty much captures the essence of autumn with a sigh-inducingly, knee-wobblingly inviting aroma and compelling blend of sweet spices. Idyllic? Heck yeah.

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• 20 M
• 2 H, 15 M
• 0

“Better than pie.” We’ve been hearing that from more than one person about these apple crumb bars—and we’re pretty big pie people around here. So that’s saying a heck of a lot.

• (1)
• 45 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 2

We’re sharing this recipe from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams for a lot of reasons. Among them the fact that peanut butter and chocolate remind us of all the greatest romances in the world.

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• 30 M
• 5 H
• 0