Goose recipes

Best homemade harvest apple pie: a tender egg-and-vinegar crust filled with cinnamon-spiced Granny Smith apples and a brown sugar crumb, splashed with cider and finished with pastry apple cutouts.

Sicilian cassata cake with a delicate sponge layer, Marsala wine soak, and rich chocolate custard filling. A traditional Italian celebration dessert built in stages.

Bran hermit cookies spiced with cinnamon, cloves, mace, and nutmeg, studded with raisins. A rolled and cut old-fashioned spice cookie with a wholesome bran twist.

Traditional Welsh plate cake cooked on a bakestone with dried fruit, nutmeg, and brown sugar. Teisin Lap is a rustic griddle cake with a golden crust and tender, fruited crumb, no oven required.

Spritzgeback are classic German pressed butter cookies flavored with almond extract. Pipe them through a cookie press for decorative shapes, then bake until just golden.

Poke cake loaf soaked with milk and layered with crushed pineapple, whipped topping, and coconut. A tropical twist on the classic poke cake using a yellow cake mix base.

Three-layer carrot cake baked low and slow with grated carrots, chopped nuts, and cinnamon, topped with a thick cream cheese icing. A Southern-style classic that never goes out of style.

White chocolate macadamia brownies with a full cup of butter, 10 ounces of white chocolate, and chopped macadamias. Dense, fudgy, and pale golden blondies.

Pistachio pudding cake made with white cake mix and soda water, baked in the microwave and topped with a fluffy pistachio whipped icing. A retro green dessert in 30 minutes.

Winter pie cooks raisins, finely chopped carrot, and apple with cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg in a spiced syrup, baked between two crusts. Thrifty old-fashioned mincemeat-style pie without the meat.

Melomacarona, traditional Greek honey cookies made with oil instead of butter, dipped in warm honey syrup and topped with chopped walnuts. Egg-free and butter-free.

Maple cloud cake: ethereal egg-foam sponge sweetened with pure maple syrup and crowned with whipped maple-meringue icing. A Quebec-Canadian classic, all maple, no refined sugar.

Classic Joe Froggers are old-school New England molasses cookies sized like dinner plates, spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg for a chewy, sailor-strong bite that holds up for weeks in a tin.

Slice and bake gingersnap cookies with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon. Make the dough, freeze in logs, and bake fresh cookies anytime for up to six months.

Mystery cake is a self-saucing chocolate pudding cake: pour batter into a pan, sprinkle cocoa sugar on top, then douse with cold coffee. As it bakes, the topping sinks into pudding under a tender cake layer.

Lemon tea loaf bakes a fragrant, lightly sweet quick bread packed with fresh lemon zest. Tender crumb, golden top, and a citrus aroma that fills the kitchen.