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Pumpkin spice is out, I heard a trend watcher say. The most popular flavor these days is cake batter. I say time will tell. There are still a lot of links to current products and new recipes starring pumpkin spice on Google. Here's another: Pumpkin Monkey Bread made in a bread machine and published in Country Woman magazine. This is not the fastest way to make monkey bread, but it is the most delicious I’ve found. And, barring the two sticks of butter in the sauce, it might be healthier than quicker versions. Monkey bread is balls of bread dough, coated in butter, sugar and cinnamon and baked in a tube pan. The quickest way to make it may be to use canned biscuits. Monkey bread, especially made that way, is best eaten warm before the biscuit chunks cool and harden. That wasn’t a problem with this version. We had it for dessert one evening, wrapped the leftovers in foil and snacked on it the next day. The sauce does tend to make it a little soggy as the day progresses bu...

Served with bacon, these filling pancakes were a comforting breakfast-for-dinner on a cold, snowy winter night. I took a photo of this one because I thought it kinda looked like ... something ... maybe a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Princess Leia or Nancy from the old comic strip. But instead of selling it on eBay, we ate it. SPICY PUMPKIN PANCAKES 2 1/3   cups Original Bisquick® mix 1/3   cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix) 1 1/4   cups milk ...

I almost added the word "easy" to the headline on this post. The recipe for Christmas Spice Butter is easy. Admittedly, the other technique -- for making dinner rolls shaped like doves -- requires some time and an eye for detail. If you like the sweet, spicy butter at Texas Roadhouse, this is a good knock-off. It is great on rolls and sweet potatoes. CHRISTMAS SPICE BUTTER 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1 tablespoon sugar Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until fluffy and well-combined. Transfer to a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate until needed. Makes 1 cup. Shaping the doves is the hardest part of making the rolls because you're using thawed frozen rolls. It's no harder than rolling the bread dough into a rope and tying a knot. You'll need clean kitchen shears to snip the tail into feathers. Whole cloves are the eyes and sl...