You are shopping early, and you keep coming back to the same small jar. Someone you love bakes every weekend. Birthday cakes, cupcakes for school, cookies for the neighbors. You do not bake yourself, so you cannot judge the thing...

Eight weekends. That is what stands between this week and Halloween night, and if yours is the house that bakes for it, the planning starts now, not when the pumpkins show up on porches. The jar on your shelf has...