Baking

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Light-gold and crusty outside, moist and fine-textured inside.

Caramel-flavored apples combine deliciously with a crisp streusel topping. A bonus: There are plenty of juices from the pie to spoon over scoops of ice cream.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

This flavorful bread uses just a tad of canola oil instead of lots of butter.

The almond-scented blueberry filling is sprinkled with a pecan topping.

(Gruyère Cheese Puffs)

Serve these pastries as the first course of a special-occasion supper — maybe with a bottle of chilled Champagne.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

The cornmeal biscuit topping adds some crunch to the winning combination of fresh strawberries and rhubarb.

This recipe was created to accompany Mozzarella, Arugula and Marinated Tomatoes on Focaccia .

First came the grasshopper cocktail, a sweet digestif the essential ingredients of which are green (thus the grasshopper) crème de menthe, white crème de cacao, and cream; then, in the sixties, came the eponymous pie, which always has a crust of either cookie or graham cracker crumbs and is served chilled.