Sugar, spice and everything nice -- sink your teeth into September with these wonderful autumn sweets.
This gem of a cake comes from Marcy Goldman's much-loved cookbook, A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking. It's tender and moist with tremendous depth of flavor -- there's coffee, orange juice and booze in it -- and the taste of honey shines through. GET THE RECIPE
After testing six different versions of pumpkin cheesecake, I came up with this foolproof recipe. It's a family favorite, and has forever replaced pumpkin pie on my holiday table. GET THE RECIPE
Apple pie is great, but who can resist warm baked apples, bubbling away in their own syrupy juices, with a crisp streusel topping of pecans, oats, butter and brown sugar? It's ten times easier to make than apple pie, and so much more delicious! GET THE RECIPE
Made with chunks of sweet apples nestled in a tender, buttery rum cake, this is my favorite apple cake -- and it's a cinch to make. GET THE RECIPE
You won't find a pumpkin bread recipe more perfect than this one! It's easy too -- just a bit of mixing and stirring, pop it in the oven, and, in about an hour, you'll have a house smelling of fall and two scrumptious, pumpkiny loaves. GET THE RECIPE
This crisp is a standout, thanks to the combination of sweet D'Anjou pears and tart dried cherries, which are plumped up in an orange-scented caramel syrup before baking. GET THE RECIPE
Imbued with warm autumn spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves, these cookies are cakey on the interior and slightly crisp on the exterior, with a bit of crunch from the raw sugar sprinkled on top. My family flocks to the kitchen as soon as I pull them out of the oven, and the first batch disappears before the second trays are done. GET THE RECIPE