Reese’s has nothing on Kyotofu’s new Chocolate White-Sesame Buttercups. The Japanese dessert bar rolled out this riff on the peanut-butter classic along with a battalion of other sweets for its third anniversary this month. Consider the mousselike, umami-rich sesame center the ultimate disguise for its main ingredient, tofu. Recipe >>
Pastry chef Nancy Olson likes to send out perfectly portioned squares of seasonal candy like Chocolate-Covered Toffee With Pumpkin Seeds and Sea Salt as mignardises for guests atGramercy Tavern, but at home she likes the ultrathin toffee snapped into uneven shards. Recipe >>
Dessert Truck chef-partner Jerome Chang has made fruit-jelly circles or squares in the past, so while he was brainstorming what to feature on the truck during the week leading up to Halloween, these firm, slightly slippery Apricot and Raspberry Jellied Fruit Skulls “reared their heads.” Recipe >>
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