Apricot

Whether your produce is peak-season or just so-so, this smart recipe will make it shine.

Celebrate the brief (but wondrous!) apricot season with this simple frangipane tart—both the crust and filling come together in a food processor.

A beautiful dessert where half of the work is done for you. That’s right, we’re using store-bought puff pastry.

You can use any combo of stone fruit in this galette, so dream big! Apricots and cherries would be divine. Peaches and nectarines make good friends…

The sesame balls will float to the surface before they’re done frying. Use a spider or a slotted spoon to keep them submerged until they’re golden brown and puffed up. This recipe is from Mister Jiu's in San Francisco, CA.

If you don’t want to go all out with a big variety of dried fruits and nuts (they can get expensive), you can limit yourself to two of each. Just be sure to include the salted roasted chickpeas; they’re addictive and provide a little hit of protein in this mix as well.

Bitter radicchio is the perfect match for sweet stone fruit in this easy salad recipe.

A luxurious almond cream makes this one-hour summer stone fruit dessert taste like an all-day labor of love.

For this dessert recipe, the dough for fregolotta, an Italian cookie, is broken up into small pieces, then baked.

A simple, two-minute dessert to carry you through all those end-of-summer cookouts.

Use any stone fruit you like, alone or in a combination.

What's bright, sweet, and about to make your toast so much better? A height-of-summer batch of homemade jam.

If your jam mixture is still runny after the gel test, simmer a few minutes longer and try again. Just be careful: It's possible to overcook jam. If subjected to too much heat, pectin loses its setting power.

There's nothing better than a perfectly ripe, in-season apricot…well, except for these apricot recipes. Can't get 'em ripe? We've got recipes for dried apricots, too.

Scenario: You’ve been blessed with the year’s best stone fruit. Don’t complicate things! Just roast it with a sprinkling of our crunchy topping in this graham cracker crumble recipe.

The dates act as both a sweetener and an emulsifier in this citrusy, mustardy vinaigrette.

Beating the butter and sugar until light and fluffy is essential to this pound cake’s moist, tender crumb and the Grand-Marnier Poached Apricots add a boozy yet sweet kick.

Eat enough of these toxic fruits and vegetables, and you'll suffer the consequences.

As summer progresses and apricots go out of season, try these desserts with ripe plums instead.

Don't use your best Champagne for this dessert--any affordable bottle of Cava or Prosecco will do. The key ingredient in this machine-free sorbet is the apricots: Choose the ripest, most fragrant ones you can find.

These tasty tarts are easy to bring to a picnic or potluck dinner. Serve one for dessert--and one for breakfast the next day. Dried California apricots are dark orange and have a tangier, more intense flavor than Turkish ones.