Desserts & Baking

Fresh apples with cinnamon and nutmeg under a homemade cake-like topping, cooked on high in the slow cooker, plus how to keep …

Sweet potato patties wrapped in crescent dough and baked in a buttery cinnamon syrup, plus how to get the sauce to thicken.

A one-bowl spiced sweet potato quick bread, plus why loaves turn out gummy and how to roast the sweet potatoes.

A cake-mix sweet potato cake with a gooey brown sugar pecan swirl and a warm glaze, plus the details that make it …

Tender sweet potato slices in a cinnamon-ginger syrup under a golden brown sugar crumble, plus how to keep the syrup thick.

Two-ingredient pumpkin muffins from a box of spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin, plus which other cake mixes work.

Chocolate peanut clusters made in the slow cooker with peanut butter chips and almond bark, a big batch for holiday trays and …

A no-bake icebox pie with pineapple, cherries, coconut and pecans in a creamy filling.

A tender quick bread full of fresh strawberries, finished with a pink strawberry glaze.

A tall, velvety Bundt pound cake made with butter and a block of cream cheese.