Pumpkin cupcakes and maple cookies on a baking sheet - Carey Jaman/Shutterstock If one season has the best desserts, it's fall. Sorry, summer popsicles and wintertime ...

Fresh nutmeg vs ground nutmeg: does grating your own fresh really make a difference? Yes, definitely. Grating a sweet, fresh nutmeg (technically a fruit from the Myristica fragrans tree) adds warmth ...

Blame it on the nutmeg. Of course it’s a holiday staple, a sprinkling grated over eggnog, half a teaspoon for mulled cider, a quarter teaspoon in a pumpkin pie. But when a recipe calls for grating one ...

Just because the holidays are over doesn’t mean you’ve given up baking or that you’ve stopped craving nutmeg. Probably quite the opposite: You’re having gingerbread dreams, even if they’re hampered by ...

There are several dishes and drinks that drastically improve with just a little dash of nutmeg. From pumpkin pie and cookies to hot chocolate and eggnog, all of these things truly come to life when ...

A five-ingredient wonder, this no-bake eggnog pie belongs on every Southern holiday dessert table, alongside classic cakes and cookies. Its creamy, cool bite is a welcome change of pace.

Nutmeg is a spice derived from the genus Myristica plant native to both Africa and Eastern Indonesia. Myristica fragrans (fragrant nutmeg) comes from the Indonesian Banda Islands, also known as the ...