Baking

Petites Profiteroles This recipe is an accompaniment Tomato and Celery-Infused Beef Consommé with Tiny Choux Puffs You'll need only about one third of the profiteroles to go with the consommé; freeze the extras and serve them for dessert at your next dinner party with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 40 min

Filled with raisins and brown sugar and baked in Marsala and cider, these apples make a warming ending to the meal. Accompany them with vanilla ice cream and some purchased almond biscotti.

This recipe originally accompanied Corn Bread Succotash Stuffing . The corn bread also can be served on its own.

Giving a nod to tropical fruit, this irresistible treat combines rich ice cream with a nut crust and thick fudge sauce.

(Pompe à l'Huile)

The recipe for these individual puddings comes from the Brazilian restaurant Pampas in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(Teules de Taronja) These crisp cookies are shaped like the terra-cotta roof tiles, teules (tejas in Castilian Spanish), that top village houses—old and new—throughout Spain. Almonds are a common ingredient in Catalan cookies, but we took another cue from the Moors and added candied orange.

An especially easy baking powder version of the traditional yeast-leavened cornmeal and molasses bread. We've used buttermilk instead of water to give the loaf moistness and tang.

The recipe below was based on the apricot soufflés served by Sally Darr at her former New York City restaurant, La Tulipe. This recipe calls for five large egg whites. When separating your eggs, serve the yolks for the accompanying crème anglaise.

Serve this with chicken salad.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

More confections than cookies, really, meringues accompany ice cream well and add a festive dimension to the table. They are best baked on a cool, dry day.