Goose recipes

Homemade English muffins griddle-cooked with cornmeal crust. A simple yeast dough rolled, cut into rounds, and browned slowly on a hot griddle for nooks-and-cranny texture.

Like the mixed drink but baked into a cake using vodka and Kahlua.

Black Forest oatmeal cookies with white and semi-sweet chocolate chunks, maraschino cherries, toasted almonds, and almond extract. A bakery-style drop cookie.

Pumpkin Vermont spice cake with four warm spices, split into four layers and frosted with maple-flavored cream cheese frosting. A stunning fall celebration cake topped with pecans.

Tiny fruit turnovers filled with a stovetop apricot-date filling and chopped nuts, wrapped in a lemon-scented cookie dough. Bite-sized pastries for holiday trays.

Big-batch cinnamon rolls baked in honey-brown-sugar caramel that pools at the bottom of the pan. Pillowy yeasted dough yields 48 rolls, ideal for brunches, bake sales, and freezer stashing.

Hillary Clinton's chocolate chip oatmeal cookies made with shortening for extra chewiness. Rolled oats and semi-sweet chips in a crispy-edged, soft-centered classic from the 1992 cookie contest.

Black chocolate sponge cake: deep dark chocolate sheet cake with boiling-water batter trick, topped with creamy peanut butter frosting. Old-fashioned chocolate-peanut butter combo.

Peanut butter granola cookies with raisins, brown sugar, and a chewy-crunchy texture from 2 1/2 cups of granola baked right into the dough. Thick, hearty, and packed with crunch.

Banana orange chiffon cake: light and fluffy as angel food but moister and richer, scented with mashed banana and fresh orange juice. Topped with a glossy orange-zest powdered sugar frosting.

Fuzzy navel cake captures the classic peach-and-orange cocktail in a moist bundt: yellow cake mix doctored with peach schnapps, orange juice, and a poke-and-pour boozy glaze. The party-cake answer to a fuzzy navel.

Cinnamon hazelnut or almond biscotti with 2 tablespoons of vanilla and a powdered sugar finish. Twice-baked Italian cookies that stay crunchy for weeks in an airtight container.

Canned green tomato pie filling with Granny Smith apples, dark and white raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. A boiling-water canner recipe for preserving the fall harvest.

Raspberry chews layer buttery shortbread, seedless raspberry jam, coconut, and almond meringue into chewy bar cookies. A vintage bar cookie that's equal parts soft and crunchy.

Pineapple-coconut chess pie with crushed pineapple and flaked coconut bound in a sweet cornmeal-thickened custard. A Southern classic with tropical flair and a slightly chewy texture.

Caramel apple cheesecake on a graham cracker crust with a gooey caramel layer, cinnamon-apple cream cheese filling, and a caramel-apple-pecan topping. A fall showstopper dessert.