Fruit recipe collection

Traditional English plum pudding, a steamed Christmas classic packed with raisins, currants, apples, walnuts, and beef suet. Spiced, dense, and deeply boozy-optional.

English tea cake with maraschino cherries and white raisins baked low and slow in a tube pan. A buttery, dense pound cake-style treat with pockets of fruit in every slice.

Entenmann's-style apple crumb cake with a yeasted braided dough filled with Granny Smith apples, cinnamon, mace, and currants, topped with a pecan crumb topping.

Escalloped pineapple with bread cubes, pineapple chunks, butter, eggs, and sugar baked into a sweet, custardy casserole. A Southern side dish for ham or a warm, bread pudding-style dessert.

Chocolate espresso macaroons with coconut, walnuts, and almond extract, held together by sweetened condensed milk. No flour, no eggs, chewy and intensely coffee-flavored.

Classic Eton mess with fresh strawberries macerated in Kirsch, whipped cream, and crushed meringue shells. A beloved British summer dessert that takes minutes to assemble.

This is one of the hottest recipes in New York right now. It was on the menu at Le Caprice and also at the buzzing new gastropub The Breslin. Now that strawberry season is almost over you can substitute raspberries with equally outstanding results.

Lighter berry coffee cake made with egg whites, applesauce, and canola oil instead of whole eggs and butter. Fresh raspberries and blueberries with a crunchy crumb topping. Adaptable for dairy-free diets.

Loaded oatmeal cookies packed with bittersweet chocolate chunks, raisins, and pecans. Chewy centers with crisp golden edges from a brown sugar butter dough.

The everything bagel sandwich loaded with corned beef, liverwurst, Monterey Jack, and a tangy dill-pickle slaw. Open-faced deli-counter overload that tastes like a New York lunch.

Evil Jungle Prince is a Thai red curry chicken with coconut milk, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, red chili peppers, fish sauce, and fresh basil served over shredded cabbage. Also works as a vegetarian stir-fry.

Holiday fruitcake with a pound of raisins boiled in spiced sugar syrup, mixed with candied fruit, walnuts, and warm spices, baked low and slow in a tube pan.

Sugar-free apple streusel pie built from just 6 pantry ingredients including biscuit mix and a sweetener of choice. A diabetic-friendly dessert that bakes in about 20 minutes.

Spooky Halloween eyeball gelatin dessert with whipped cream eyeballs floating in blood-red Jell-O. Easy, kid-friendly, and gleefully gruesome.

Overnight French toast fried in bacon grease for crispy, custardy slices with a smoky edge. Thick-cut bread soaked overnight for deep-custard interiors, dusted with powdered sugar and maple syrup.

Fabulous lemon meringue pie offers both stovetop and microwave methods for the cornstarch-thickened lemon curd. Topped with cream-of-tartar-stabilized French meringue in a deep-dish baked shell.