Oct 07 2025
Get ready to bewitch your taste buds with these hauntingly delicious chocolate Halloween cupcakes! Perfect for your next Halloween party, school event, or family gathering, these treats are sure to cast a spell on everyone who tries them. Ingredients For the Cupcakes: For the Chocolate Frosting: For Decorations: Instructions Cupcakes: Chocolate Frosting: Decorating: Decoration Tips …
Oct 06 2025
Golden on the outside, tender in the center, and packed with large pieces of sweet crab meat, a good crab cake should taste first and foremost like crab. The breadcrumbs, egg, mayonnaise, mustard, and seasonings are there to hold everything together and provide a little flavor—not to overwhelm the seafood. These Maryland-style crab cakes keep …
Oct 06 2025
Halloween is one of the best seasons for picking up a paintbrush. The colors are dramatic, the subjects are instantly recognizable, and almost anything can become a little more mysterious beneath a full moon. Pumpkins glow from dark porches, bare trees twist against evening skies, black cats appear in windows, and ordinary old houses suddenly …
Oct 05 2025
Tender, buttery, nutty, and fragrant with vanilla, Vanillekipferl are among Austria’s best-loved Christmas cookies. Their delicate crescent shape makes them instantly recognizable, while a generous coating of vanilla-scented powdered sugar gives the little cookies their snowy holiday finish. The dough itself is wonderfully simple. Flour, butter, powdered sugar, and finely ground nuts are worked together …
Oct 04 2025
Sweet roasted pumpkin, salty feta, fragrant rosemary and thyme, crunchy pumpkin seeds, and a tangy drizzle of balsamic glaze come together in this simple autumn side dish. The pumpkin caramelizes around the edges in a hot oven while remaining soft and creamy inside, and the feta adds just enough richness to balance its natural sweetness. …
Sep 29 2025
Warm homemade biscuits do not have to involve rolling pins, biscuit cutters, folding, or perfectly shaped circles. These easy buttermilk drop biscuits deliver the buttery flavor and tender crumb of homemade biscuits with a much simpler method: mix the dough, scoop it onto a baking sheet, and bake. Cold butter creates tender pockets throughout the …
Sep 28 2025
Soft, almond-rich, and delicately perfumed with rose water, homemade marzipan is a remarkably versatile confection. It can be rolled into bite-size candies, dipped in dark chocolate, shaped into tiny fruits and flowers, tucked into baked goods, or rolled into a thin sheet for decorating cakes. This version adds just enough rose water to give the …
Sep 28 2025
Some movies simply feel like fall. Maybe it is the sight of golden leaves scattered across a New York sidewalk, the return to a school campus at the beginning of a new term, a family gathering around a crowded table, or the particular combination of sweaters, books, old houses, rainy afternoons, and crisp evening air …
Sep 25 2025
Fall is one of the best seasons for changing up your manicure. Summer brights give way to warm rusts, deep burgundy, forest green, caramel brown, creamy beige, pumpkin orange, and all the golden shades that seem to appear as soon as the leaves begin changing. Even a simple solid-color manicure can suddenly feel seasonal when …
Sep 22 2025
There is a particular moment each September when summer gives way to autumn—not according to the changing leaves or the first cool morning, but according to Earth’s journey around the Sun. This is the fall equinox. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the September equinox marks the astronomical beginning of fall. Days that …
