gifts

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

• 25 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 36

This spice cake is soaked with rum syrup, making a lovely, albeit slightly boozy, gift when wrapped in parchment and tied with a bow.

• 15 M
• 1 H
• 15

Fruitcake brownies? Yup. But not those lurid dried fruits of your childhood. Think dried figs, cranberries, cherries made tipsy with rum or brandy and baked into a brownie pan. Ridiculously inventive.

• 25 M
• 1 D, 1 H
• 8

“Irresistible.” “The perfect combination of sweet, salt, spice, and crunch.” “We. Can. NOT. Stop. Eating. Them.” “Absolutely perfect.” That’s what we’re hearing about these candied pecans.

• 15 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 22

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

• 30 M
• 2 H
• 5

All that familiar autumnal spice loveliness in perhaps the only pumpkin spice incarnation you’ve yet to try.

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• 15 M
• 1 H
• 0

The 8th wonder of the world? These insanely satiating caramels made simply with apple cider, sugar, and spice.

• 25 M
• 4 H
• 2

We pinky swear these whole wheat chocolate chip cookies don’t taste healthy. Not even remotely. Quite the contrary, actually.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 35 M
• 5

How do you define a true New York-style cheesecake? A sweetly crunchy graham cracker crust cushioning a rich, creamy, moan-inducing filling with a slightly lemony lilt. In other words, this recipe.

• 20 M
• 2 H
• 32

Don’t let these delicate, diminutive cakes with the froufrou French name fool you. They’re a cinch to toss in the oven–and even easier to toss in the mouth.

• 15 M
• 45 M
• 15

Not your ordinary molasses spice cookies, these owe their nice hit of savory to a hit of black pepper. Once you’ve tried these, you may never go back.

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• 35 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 0

And, on the seventh day, God created gianduia (zhahn-doo-yah). And the world has been a more glorious place ever since.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 2

Got leftover Champange? Good. Because we’ve got the most splurge-worthy use for it ever thanks to these creamy, fudgy, boozy, ganache gilded little orbs.

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• 2 H, 25 M
• 8 H, 15 M
• 2

These candied nuts are sweet and spicy and the sorta thing that friends demolish in minutes at cocktail parties and holiday gatherings yet talk about for months afterward.

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• 25 M
• 1 H
• 2