Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Soft pumpkin drop cookies topped with cream cheese frosting. Use plain canned puree, cool completely before frosting, and refrigerate for storage.

Soft pumpkin drop cookies topped with cream cheese frosting. Use plain canned puree, cool completely before frosting, and refrigerate for storage.

Fresh-strawberry cookies wrapped around sweetened cream cheese. Freeze the filling portions, chill the dough, and keep the baked cookies refrigerated.

Chocolate chip cookies with browned butter, mature sourdough discard, and cinnamon. Cool the butter and chill the dough before portioning.

Peanut butter cookies made with mature sourdough discard, chilled dough, and a light sugar coating. Plan for three trays baked one at a time.

Cookie bars with graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, and mini marshmallows, baked in a nine-by-thirteen-inch pan and cooled before cutting.

A six-egg cream cheese cake lightened with meringue, baked in a water bath, cooled gradually, and chilled before slicing.

Thin crepes filled with vanilla whipped cream and topped with cooled chocolate ganache. Allow the crepes to cool before adding the filling.

A cocoa pumpkin loaf with cinnamon and optional chocolate chips, baked in a nine-by-five-inch pan and cooled before slicing.

A round lemon cake made with mature sourdough discard, butter, and fresh lemon, finished with a powdered-sugar glaze after cooling.

Flourless peanut butter cookies with one miniature peanut butter cup pressed into each warm baked center.