Ree Drummond's quick and easy apple tart will impress guests but is a cinch to make. It takes only 30 minutes to put together (thanks to sheets of puff pastry and store-bought caramel sauce), but it'll look like you spent hours on it.
Super-soft bananas are nice and sweet (green bananas have no place here). Keep them a bit chunky once you mash them so you can get little bits of banana in your bread. Damaris Phillips adds many of the flavors of a traditional bananas Foster dessert, like rum and brown sugar, to this glazed treat.
A clafouti is a French country dessert that features a pancake-like batter over fruit. The batter will bake up just enough to hold but not cover the beautiful array of pears in your dish.
There's more than meets the eye in this tricky pie. At first glance, it looks like a pan full of cinnamon buns, but cut into it and there's apple pie filling underneath!
Anne Burrell cooks butter low and slow so that it starts to brown and smell like hazelnuts, an aromatic filling for her apple tart. Because it's easier to make a larger quantity of the filling and it lasts in the fridge for a few days, her recipe can make two tarts.
Make a batch of this seasonal butter and store in airtight container in the fridge for up to five days. Try it on everything from pancakes and waffles to grilled cheese and pork chops.
These little pies are supposed to look rustic, so don't stress about making them picture-perfect. It's a simple dough, a little jam and you've got a delicious, easy single-serving pie.
The Pioneer Woman takes her apple pie to a new level by topping it with gooey caramel and crunch pecan. Don't forget the crumb topping, made with brown sugar and quick oats, for an extra texture.
Giada De Laurentiis takes some of her favorite apple pie ingredients and puts them into a delicious torta, which means "cake" in Italian. It's an easy cake to make because you don't need any fancy gadgets to ensure it turns out.
Streusel is a super-easy topping for in-season pears — it's just flour, butter and sugar. Tyler Florence uses brown sugar to complement the flavor of the pears. Make it special by folding cranberries directly into the streusel topping.
