fall recipes

The New York Times is promoting a baked apple cider doughnut recipe as a signature treat of the season, highlighting readers' results: moist, flavorful doughnuts that disappear almost immediately from the kitchen. Baked rather than fried, the recipe leans on apple cider for autumn flavor. Home bakers are sharing their attempts and swapping the recipe as cooler weather arrives.

Garden Answer has released a new episode in which the team decorates a mail house for autumn and bakes an apple upside down cake. The seasonal home and garden content has drawn close to 190,000 likes, with viewers responding to the mix of cozy fall decorating ideas and an easy, crowd-pleasing dessert recipe as the autumn season gets underway.

A simple mushroom and goat cheese tart recipe is making the rounds among home cooks, pitched as an easy, fast and tasty dish suited to fall menus and French-style appetizers or dinners. Food lovers are sharing the recipe for its minimal effort and crowd-pleasing combination of earthy mushrooms and tangy goat cheese.

Home cooks are sharing quick pork tenderloin recipes as an easy, time-saving fall dinner option. The cut is praised as one of the simplest and fastest pieces of pork to prepare, making it a go-to savory dish for busy autumn evenings. Food communities are swapping seasoning ideas and weeknight-friendly cooking tips as fall recipe season gets underway.

The Pioneer Woman's recipes were among the most-read food features in September, according to a roundup of popular reader picks. The collection highlights Ree Drummond's comfort-food dishes, a recurring favorite in American home cooking. Food editors say seasonal fall recipes tend to drive heavy reader interest at the start of autumn.

Simply Recipes has published a roundup of 21 fall dinner ideas that can each be prepared in 20 minutes or less. The collection features quick seasonal dishes aimed at home cooks looking for fast weeknight meals as autumn produce comes into season.

A classic French recipe is making the rounds: quatre quarts, a buttery pound cake built on equal weights of eggs, sugar, flour and butter. Home bakers praise it as simple, elegant and ideal for autumn dessert tables, with the equal-parts formula making it easy to remember and adapt to any size of bake.

A recipe for a dark chocolate ganache tart is circulating among home cooks. The dessert pairs a crisp Oreo cookie crust with a silky chocolate ganache filling, layered with caramel and finished with sea salt. It is described as an elegant but easy make-ahead option, and is being shared as part of seasonal fall baking and dessert recipe ideas.