Anonymous wrote:I make pumpkin cookies which will have a maple glaze. Need another dessert and don’t want lots of steps. Would love to make the cranberry curd tart in NY times but don’t have time. What are your family’s easy favorites?

Easiest is baked apples- wash and core. Fill with raisins, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla. Can sub out raisins for other dried fruit or just preserves mixed with a littl flour for the "stuffing"- Can leave out sugar for the sugar free complainers. Bake.
Small Honeycrisp works well, no peeling, can put each in a cupcake paper in muffin tin for baking. Plate them - dab of whipped cream on top-small cookie stuck in it.

I am buying a Costco pumpkin pie and making two ice cream pies- Haagen-daz pretzel crust with dulce de leche ice cream. Super easy and the need for the freezer frees up valuable fridge space. I drizzle it with a little smuckers caramel (squeeze bottle) before serving. Is it a little pedestrian? Sure, but it is a crowd pleaser and so damn easy.

Persimmon pie

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apple crisp. Much quicker and easier than apple pie.

Or a galette. Just use store bought pie crust (Trader Joe's or Dufour).

I've had great results making Alison Roman's apple tart/galette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiwIqhrIcQQ

(They took her Thanksgiving video from a couple years ago and made separate videos for the different recipes: the apple tart, the stuffing, etc.)

Note: yes, the dough is very dry.