I made Ina Garten's fresh apple spice cake, her most fall-friendly dessert. The cake features Granny Smith apples, rum-soaked raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pecans. I ate the cake with ice cream and ...

There is nothing like fall baking season: the warm flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg fill the air, there's pumpkin-flavored everything on the shelves and it's all a delicious lead up to cookie and pie ...

Apple cakes abound in the fall and I am usually the first one to jump on that bake, but this year I was inspired by two ingredients to make something a little different—pears and a new spiced rum.