Pie haters, we see you. Alison Roman likes to make a deep-dish honey apple galette, basically a galette baked in a springform pan, which is not much work, but very impressive. Mark Bittman’s apple crisp is another low-effort, high-reward dessert that comes together in about an hour. If it’s not a party without cake, bake Yossy Arefi’s pumpkin layer cake with caramel buttercream or brown sugar layer cake with cranberry buttercream (above). Readers love them. Two other non-pie favorites are this eye-popping cranberry curd tart and this sticky cranberry gingerbread. Round out the dessert spread with a few loaves of banana bread, pumpkin bread and Alison Roman’s lemony turmeric tea cake.

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