What Even is a Fall Bake? featuring Rick Martínez

It’s the best baking season of the year! So we’re celebrating all things fall baking on today’s episode.

First up, producer Rossi Anastopoulo and King Arthur editor Tatiana Bautista join David and Jessica to discuss our new list of the 49 Best Fall Recipes, Ranked. To no one’s surprise, there are a lot of opinions all around! Then cookbook author Rick Martínez stops by to dive deep into Pan de Muerto, the fragrant, buttery bread made to celebrate the fall holiday of Día de los Muertos. During our Ask the Bakers segment, Jessica and David discuss the big fall baking questions: Is it ever worth it to make your own pumpkin purée? What’s the difference between all the cinnamons out there? And is it pronounced PEA-can or puh-CON?! To close the show, we have a story about the oldest apple tree in America and the apple detective who found it (!), a freshly fried Jess-opinion, and the bakes David and Jessica are making this week.

Recipes and other links from this episode:

Get baking with our 49 Best Fall Recipes, Ranked

Our favorite fall recipes: Chili Crisp Cottage Cheese Flatbreads (Tatiana), Sweet Potato Sheet Cake with Marshmallow Frosting (Rossi), Honey Beer Miche (David), and Oatmeal-Date Smash Cookies (Jessica)

Check out our Pan de Muerto recipe

Find Rick’s cookbooks and learn more about his work here

Visit our shop for Vietnamese cinnamon and Indonesian cinnamon

Read more about John Bunker’s apple discovery: On a Maine island, historians discover one of the oldest living apple trees in North America and find his book here

Find our recipe for Fried Apple Pies

What David’s baking this week: Cinnamon-Crisp Coffee Cake

What Jessica’s baking this week: recipes from Sweet & Salty, our new kids’ cookbook!

Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment here!

This episode is sponsored by Plugra. Learn more about their premium European-style butter at plugra.com.