From the grub-obsessed blog Spoon Fork Bacon comes a seasonal sweet you’ll find yourself baking regardless of the solstice.

Make a couple dozen of these.

For a flavor-packed riff on a fall favorite, caramelize apples, add an Earl Grey pudding, and garnish with candied hazelnuts.

Treat yourself.

We dared Bluestem’s pastry chef, Megan Garrelts, to improve upon our homemade pumpkin pie. She accepted the challenge and simply added layers of rich chocolate mousse and frothy meringue. It looks like we’ve been one-upped.

Layer some sweetness today.

We have something to say to overly sweet cookies: back off. We suggest serving these with tea — and a healthy pinch of gab.

Grind some pepper and bake a batch.

Moist, spicy, and not too sweet, the treat (which we’d eat at any meal) is another reason to listen to your elders. Credit the idea for this one to SF-based chef Nancy Oakes’s grandma.

Delight your dessert table.

The only thing kids love more than ice cream? Donuts. Send Thanksgiving off in style with these minis, courtesy of Flex Mussels pastry chef and Top Chef: Just Desserts fave, Zac Young.

Pop out these sweet treats.

In case you forgot, making a classic Southern dessert is a piece of cake, er, pie. We consulted with The Los Angeles Athletic Club (a hotel, not a cruelly named bakery) for its recipe that will qualify you for many parties to come.

Be a belle and pull this out of the oven.

How do you like them pears? When they’re topped with a little vanilla ice cream you won’t be able to answer, because your mouth will be full of fall deliciousness.

Here’s an alternative to the apple.

Pumpkin cupcakes are good anywhere, anytime. Watch the frosting on your way in.

Please a crowd nearby.

What’s that we smell? Pumpkin bread in the oven? You should have called sooner.

Bake a warm loaf of this bread.

Classic cookies get an unexpected twist from crystallized ginger.

Spice things up.

Kate Moss says nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, but we beg to differ. The time-honored recipes our families pull out during the holidays are more than worth a little jiggle.

Satisfy your guests’ sweet tooth.

Dipping a cookie into pumpkin-flavored cream cheese? It almost pains us that we didn’t think of it sooner.

Whip up this recipe now.

Sometimes in life there are desserts so wonderful and decadent we dream and talk about them constantly. Friends, this is one of those moments.

Find out about this special something.

Gingerbread — it’s not just for men anymore. Tartine’s Liz Prueitt shares her secret.

Run as fast as you can to this recipe.

Top Chef contestant Zac Young loves “eating holidays.” For Thanksgiving, he turns cranberry orange bread into a decadent dessert by soaking it in alcohol and serving it with ice cream and sauteed cranberries.

Add something sweet to the table.

Stir up a warm pumpkin bread pudding that lends an uncomplicated, comforting, and nostalgic feel to your table. We’ll eat (and eat) to that.

Bake and serve with whipped cream.