Italian cream cake

maple pudding cakes (pouding chomeur) baked in a bath of cream and caramelized maple syrup

Baby barmbracks, an Irish tea bread with sherry

Top shelf egg nog … with grand marnier, dark rum, and brandy

Five-minute, four-ingredient cranberry schmutz

Seriously simple apple tart with hot buttered rum raisin sauce

cranberry tart with cognac-soaked raisins, tangerine zest, and dark chocolate

Crispy French Toast

Rich blue cornmeal and applesauce pancakes

Nectarine lemon balm tipple … a sweet and ice-cold antidote to summer’s heat

strawberry lemon verbena refrigerator jam with candied lemon slices