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Catherine S.
January 2, 2014
Hands down, PEACH COBBLER with candied maple pecans and French vanilla ice cream!
minja
December 31, 2013
love to making these: panna cotta with fruit compote and fresh seasonal fruits
boneappetit
December 30, 2013
Lemon or almond polenta cake (with fruit compotes in the winter, fresh berries in summer, ice cream any time) are easy and always delicious.
Jan
December 29, 2013
Apple puff pastry hand pies. I make a double batch and keep them in the freezer. They can be baked frozen, so I always have a great dessert ready!
JDG
December 28, 2013
Peach or blackberry cobbler. Make them year round with good quality frozen fruit.
FlossysFuel
December 28, 2013
Lemon Lavendar Chess Pie. While lemons are in season now, it's actually my favorite summer dessert.
Macy
December 28, 2013
When rhubarb is in season I make rhubarb compote by the pot-full and spoon it over vanilla ice cream or yogurt, or sometimes just eat it plain. I can't get enough!
Jen
December 28, 2013
Favorite seasonal dessert: strawberry donuts! Other quick ones, figs & cream, pannacotta. Love light desserts that you can have buckets of!
Caroline M.
December 28, 2013
My favorite seasonal dessert is a raspberry lime cheesecake from southern living! It screams Christmas to me. It's time consuming but so worth the beautiful and delicious treat!
Atim U.
December 28, 2013
A nigerian dessert called puff puff is my go to dessert. Its a basic doughnut but lots can be done with it
jmattes22
December 28, 2013
Dark chocolate brownies, with whatever candy goodies I have in my pantry.
Glori
December 28, 2013
It's super simple, but every year it's sugar cookies at Christmastime. I know the recipe by heart and it always takes me back to being a kid
dewey
December 28, 2013
I just made Jenny McCoy's buckwheat bars and they might become a new staple for me!
Martha H.
December 28, 2013
My mom's almond cake is pretty subtly stupendous, and grows better with a day or two under its belt. You take one bite of this plain, brown cake, and WOW!. Yep, it is that good.
kzmccaff
December 28, 2013
I love using whatever fruit is in season and making a crisp! SO easy, so delicious, such a good conduit for ice cream... ;)
Olivejar
December 28, 2013
Fall-Pumpkin/Pecan Pie; Winter-Crème Broule; Spring-Strawberry Shortcake; Summer-Peach Trifle.
mo
December 28, 2013
Anything with peaches! Peach dumplings, peach cupcakes, peach cremefraiche pie, roasted peaches...
Jane R.
December 28, 2013
sour cherry pie with vanilla ice cream. the thought of it makes my mouth water.
littlethingamajigs
December 27, 2013
honestly, after making Jestei's flourless chocolate cake last week (http://food52.com/recipes/140-flourless-chocolate-cake), I think it has become my new go-to dessert. few ingredients and pretty short prep time.
Carolina
December 27, 2013
We love the ease of clafoutis, using whatever fruit comes in the farm box, or even just a naked Dutch baby.
Rinchen
December 27, 2013
I seldom make cakes but when I do I look for the recipes that take more time. Thx
clare
December 27, 2013
Cherry clafoutis! I only get to make it about once a year ago I savor it all the more.
deb_boyce
December 27, 2013
Eggnog and peppermint ice cream floats, with freshly grated nutmeg! Cheers!
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December 27, 2013
"Horseshoe Cookies" an old family recipe. Pastry dough with a filling strawberry, or pineapple preserves worth chopped walnuts shaped like a horseshoe and baked to perfection. Yum
Nichole L.
December 27, 2013
During the holidays I whip up little muffin size cheesecakes to take to friends' houses.
Leah
December 27, 2013
A good peach pie is my hands down favorite!
Catherine L.
December 27, 2013
Me too, Leah. The peach season is so short, but I'm lucky to be a Georgia native and have access to farm fresh peaches. Long live peach pie! (and cobbler)
Sophia F.
December 27, 2013
Christmas cookies are my favorite on the holidays. I made Spritz Cookies, and am making Snickerdoodles and Vanilla Sugar cookies before New Years. Also, every Christmas I make a white cake - this year, coconut cream cake.
heyjude
December 27, 2013
Rhubarb crisp in the spring, strawberry shortcake in the summer, apple cake in the fall and gingerbread for the holidays.
Annie
December 27, 2013
baked mooncakes are one of my favorite seasonal desserts. they're something only eaten during the mid-autumn/harvest moon festival which normally occurs at the beginning of the fall
on the other hand, I love a good pumpkin muffin and I'll only make them in the fall!
on the other hand, I love a good pumpkin muffin and I'll only make them in the fall!
Jennifer
December 27, 2013
The go-to sweet my kids all loved as children, and all request I make it when they come home for visits - is peanut butter balls.
FrozenFoodie
December 27, 2013
Macarons, playing with the flavors by season (such as chestnut cookies with saba/orange buttercream filling)
Ann N.
December 27, 2013
I love to stuff apples and bake them. we then serve it with a egg custard sauce. Delicious comfort food during the autumn and winter season. <3
Vivian
December 27, 2013
I love desserts... Period! I just started baking a few years ago and enjoy trying different recipes. I've always loved anything made with lemons. My late sister made the best lemon meringue pie (extra lemon so it was tart). It was so good! I have her recipe written down and hope to make it someday, although I'm sure it won't be nearly as good as hers.
Christina D.
December 27, 2013
I'm not a big Wednesday is dessert day, but when I make desserts, I tend to go for bread puddings with a twist (maple walnut banana nut bread) or of course, ice cream! I like pumpkin bourbon ice cream, candied bacon bourbon ice cream, and eggnog ice cream with rum. See a pattern?
amysarah
December 27, 2013
Completely agree about clafoutis - I've been campaigning for its return for years. Not only simple, but adaptable to whatever fruit is in season and whatever brandy/liqueur is on hand (also, not too sweet, which I like.) Also, Julia Childs' galette pastry with cornmeal - made in the processor, good with any seasonal fruit. Since a galette isn't supposed to look perfect, it has a blessedly low fussy factor.
Catherine L.
December 27, 2013
Love the idea of adding cornmeal to pastry! And I 100% second the move to bring back clafoutis.
Gill
December 27, 2013
My favorite, whack I have not had in years is the cake that comes from the Mitford series of books. Pretty complex to make according to my Mother. Great cake and very special.
Laura
December 27, 2013
Fruit crips, especially peach or apple. With vanilla bean ice cream.....Yum!
Terry
December 27, 2013
My favorite seasonal dessert is a chocolate spiced apple cake. Perfect in the fall with a cup of dark coffee!!! MMMMM
Monica M.
December 27, 2013
I would say gingerbread as in soft gingerbread chocolate cookies at Christmastime. I only eat it in December when i really crave it.
lisabu
December 27, 2013
My favorite seasonal dessert is berry crisp with homemade vanilla ice cream or else Italian plum torte.
Yvonne
December 27, 2013
When I can get it, I love to cook with rhubarb. Rhubarb tarts in a cornmeal crust (from Good to the Grain) with creme fraiche ice cream (from The Perfect Scoop) is a favorite!
Adriana
December 27, 2013
Vanilla bean souffle is my go-to. I always make sure to have vanilla beans in my pantry!
Hillary
December 27, 2013
My favorite seasonal dessert is a nice dark gingerbread cake with a pear compote. Winter in a pan!
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