You made 12 candy apples last year. The candy was glassy and red. The bowl of edible glitter sat across the kitchen, and by the time you reached it, the first apple was already hard. The glitter never touched a...

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...