This is the ultimate use for those leftover bananas! Sticky gooey banana rum cake with an amazing rum glaze. Perfect winter treat.

It’s National Cheesecake Day! This raspberry-blueberry cheesecake was a hit at our 4th of July party – and now you can enjoy it too.

Created by the subconscious mind (it came in a dream), this light, healthy, super-tasty recipe (vegan, even!) is great summer fare.

Lemon chiffon layers cool on the bench, perhaps thinking forward to their eventual marriage with the oh-so-tart lemon curd and smooth cream?

Creamy frangipane filling, honey-glazed roasted apples, and a pate sable crust make up this tantalizing tart.

Take an already-great banana bread recipe, jazz it up with a peanut-butter center, and turn it all into muffins? Crazy! But in a gooood way.

The chocolate Slash cupcake with vanilla ‘buttercream’ (vegan), from the Bleeding Heart Bakery, received our votes for best cupcake!

This recipe for soft gingerbread cookies makes wonderful, easy to mold cookies that can be decorated or eaten plain.

Don’t they look like they’re marching to the sea? Fleur de sel caramel between pecans and tasty chocolate make these scrumptious turtles.

Fleur de Sel Caramel enrobed in dark chocolate, plus other weekend baking.

Delicious quick bread stuffed with cranberries and sweetened with orange juice- perfect for the holidays.

The cake slice bakers strike again! Triple-layer sweet potato cake with orange and chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Buttermilk Sweet Potato Pie – a new take on an old Southern classic – but to this Northern girl, how will it compare to pumpkin pie?

Caramels made with local apple cider, then dipped in bittersweet chocolate – all of the flavors of caramel-dipped apples, but no seeds!

Raspberry Genoise – low in fat, full of flavor

They looked so wonderful on the baking sheet, but then it all went wrong…

Homemade naan (from the no-knead folks) plus leftovers makes for super-speedy and tasty dinner!

Comparison of the NYT (Torres’) recipe with other favorites.