Thanksgiving
Pumpkin Cheesecake
This is a creamy and wonderfully-spiced cheesecake. The crust is made with ginger snap cookies and butter. The cheesecake is about 3″ high, and is made with cream cheese, heavy cream, eggs, and pumpkin. It is spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and mace. Topped with a sweetened sour cream and chopped candied ginger.
Pies
Apple Pie — A beautiful, fat, old-fashioned, two-crusted pie.
Blueberry Pie — Hundreds of tiny sweet Maine blueberries, with a bit of lemon, cinnamon and sugar, make this the perfect pie.
Pecan Pie — A beauty that is sweet and filled with pecan halves.
Pumpkin Pie — A rich, smooth, traditional custard pie.
Tarts
Cranberry-Apple Tart — A sweet and buttery pastry filled with cranberries, apples, and spices. This is topped with a brown sugar and butter streusel. The tart feeds 10–16 people.
Pumpkin Tart — This is a butter pastry shell filled with a wonderfully rich, spiced pumpkin filling with a hint of brandy. This is all topped with a walnut crumb streusel.
Frangipane — Butter crust with a layer of apricot preserves, and topped with ground almond and lemon.
Lemon Tart — Butter crust with a layer of tangy lemon.
Linzer Torte — Almond butter crust with raspberry preserves.
Coffee Cakes
Blueberry — Made with sour cream and Maine blueberries.
Cardamom — Rich cardamom cake with a swirl of walnuts and spices in the middle.
Lemon — Dense buttermilk pound cake with fresh lemon zest.
Pecan — Sour cream cake with pecan streusel topping.
Spiced Apple Sweet Cake — Pecans, candied ginger, cranberries and rum in a moist apple cake.
Sweet Breads
Pumpkin Sweet Bread — Very moist and delicious, but not too sweet, this one has walnuts and pumpkin pie spices.
Cranberry-Orange Sweet Bread — This one is filled with cranberries and lightly flavored with orange.
Cinnamon Sweet Bread — An old-fashioned sweet bread with cinnamon sugar.