The 10 Most Popular Recipes of October 2021

Reunited (with our ovens) and it feels so good.

October 29, 2021

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The data confirms what we already knew: October marked the start of baking season. Our most popular recipes of the month were mostly about satisfying the sweet tooths (sweet teeth?) in the house. We’re talking about these BA staff-favorite caramel apple cookies, this dense and lemony olive oil cake, and the chocolate chunklet cookies that are as fun to eat as they are to say. So fire up the oven, dust off your favorite oven mitts, and get ready to binge watch The Great British Bake Off while your buttery sage biscuits rise to golden-brown perfection. These are our most popular recipes from October—starting with No. 1.

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1/10
Super Lemony Olive Oil Cake
When life gives you lemons, make Mina Stone's irresistibly moist and zesty olive oil cake.
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2/10
Salted Caramel Apple Cookies
If a caramel apple and a snickerdoodle got together and created some seriously delicious magic, you'd end up with these soft and chewy cookies that taste like a mug of warm spiced cider on a crisp fall day.
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3/10
Samosa Tart With Caramelized Onions and Fontina
When you're not up for deep frying, bake a samosa's spiced potato filling into a buttery, flaky bed of puff pastry instead.
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4/10
Cacio e Pepe Rösti
All the peppery, cheesy pleasure of the Roman classic in crispy, sliceable potato form.
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5/10
Ultra Fluffy Pumpkin Pancakes
These pumpkin pancakes are tall and light, highly spiced, and the perfect way to relish a crisp fall morning.
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6/10
Caramel Crunch–Chocolate Chunklet Cookies
These chocolate chunklet cookies are ingeniously baked in a muffin tin, resulting in perfectly crispy, caramelized edges and soft centers.
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7/10
Adobo Mushroom Tacos
Meaty mushrooms get spiced to perfection and roasted until crisp before they're tucked into warm corn tortillas.
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8/10
Air Fryer Crispy Brussels Sprouts With Honey Butter
These Brussel sprouts are a textural masterpiece: crisp on the outside, tender inside, and drizzled with an indulgent honey butter.
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Photograph by Emma Fishman, Food styling by Susie Theodorou, Prop styling by Sophie Leng
9/10
Stuffing Biscuits
We gave biscuits the Thanksgiving treatment by packing these with classic stuffing flavors like sage, rosemary, fennel seed, and scallion.
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10/10
Char Siu Wellington
This showstopping centerpiece combines the flavors of very Cantonese sticky-sweet char siu pork with those of very British beef Wellington.
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Mehreen Karim was formerly the Recipe Production Assistant at Bon Appétit, where she built recipes and stories for bonappetit.com. She also developed recipes and wrote stories to help readers discover unlikely food combinations (caramelized dates and asparagus) and cooking hacks (how to grill chicken without a grill) to inspire home ... Read More

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