Miscellaneous Baking

4 Recipes make up one amazing collection of Thanksgiving tastes in one sweet quartet, including Prize Winning Pecan Crunch Pumpkin Pie, Thanksgiving Pumpkin Biscuit Pudding, Dulce de Leche Chocolate Pecan Pie and Sticky Toffee Harvest Bread Pudding Cake.  

Easy to make and delicious, little apple desserts in their own custard cups. A baker's trick here is to poach the apples a tiny bit (in a little water and sugar) just to soften them before using them in the recipe.
 

Fruitcake Notes  - Seasonal Notes from the Test Kitchen

If you enjoyed Cheskie’s Cinnamon or Chocolate Bubka, you will swoon for these. Puffy, yeasted Rugulah that taste like Zabar’s whipped them up. So good, so easy, so different. I make these partly with Cinnamon Sugar. Sometimes, I fill pastries with diced up apple pie filling and some raisins for yet another flavor rugulah. Heavenly. Note: no doubt Cheskies Bubka is dairy free and mine includes butter and milk. To make it dairy free, you would have to use water (no milk) and unsalted margarine. But bubka, to me, should be rich, buttery, and flavorful and that means butter, milk and a generous hand with the cinnamon.

Russell Crowe, Nathan Lane, KD Lang, and more folks...Who is the connective thread in all this? Me. Oh and don't forget to check out . It is the cake, inspired by Arcade Fire, the Indie band that is hotter than ...hot cake. www.ArcadeFire.com.

 

This is a luscious and bright tasting sweet kugel. A great counterpoint to pickled brisket or with roast turkey. It is also great cold, with cream, as a sweet side dish during the week or for a vegetarian Seder. A variation of a great recipe attributed to the Margareten Family.

A lovely, updated, apple laden kugel that is perfect for Passover. It is a perfect, lightly sweet, side dish.

Serve warm with a maple-tinged caramel sauce. Big chunks of apple in a golden batter with a touch of spice. Great for breakfast, brunch or a summery, post BBQ dessert.