10,000 bitter recipes

Godiva ultimate chocolate layer cake: three buttermilk cocoa layers brushed with Godiva chocolate liqueur and stacked with a cocoa-liqueur buttercream. Boozy, deep, unapologetically chocolate.

Delicate buttery lemon cookies rolled thin and cut into rounds, brushed with egg wash and sprinkled with sugar for a crisp, golden finish.

Old-fashioned crumb cake made with sour milk, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The same flour-butter mixture forms both the spiced cake batter and the crumbly streusel topping. One bowl, one pan.

Tart Granny Smith apples and whole cranberries under a buttery oat-brown sugar crumble topping. Baked low and slow until bubbling and golden, this cranberry apple pie is fall on a plate.

Golden butter cake loaves with toasted almond crust on the bottom and sweet almond glaze on top. Easy recipe using cake mix with impressive bakery results.

We have always been great lovers of mushrooms, wild and cultivated. This dish was usually made with meadow or button mushrooms, but the cultivated ones will fill in just as easily and be almost as good.

Butterscotch dandy cake folds homemade hard-ball butterscotch syrup into a tender two-layer cake, then crowns it with a cooked brown sugar buttercream. A real-deal Southern butterscotch cake from scratch.

Lamb shoulder in pastry, a British-style boneless lamb roast wrapped in flaky pastry and baked golden. A traditional Sunday-dinner centerpiece with countryside roots.

Irish hot buttered mussels: fresh mussels steamed open and topped with butter, chives, and their own briny juices. Served with crusty brown bread.

Classic Greek-style roast chicken stuffed with rice, basted with butter and white wine, and served with pan juices and lemon wedges. Sunday dinner, Mediterranean-style.

Five-ingredient quick scones with butter, flour, milk, baking powder, and salt. No eggs, no sugar, ready in 30 minutes for warm tea-time scones with butter and jam.

Almond Rocca: This is not for Almond Roca, yet it is close enough and it is real easy. In fact my 14 year old daughter has been making it by herself at christmas for the past 4 years. Hope this will meet your needs.

It was named for Richard Foster, a friend of Brennan and regular patron of the restaurant. It remains the most popular dish at the restaurant to this day. Each year Brennan's utilizes over 35,000 pounds of bananas for the world renowned dessert. The standard recipe is as follows.

Maple pecan sticky buns bake an oat-enriched dough over a gooey maple-pecan syrup that turns into a glossy topping when inverted. Filled with cinnamon, raisins and pecans, they're a weekend brunch treat.

Jam cake with caramel icing, a three-layer Southern spice cake built around blackberry jam, cinnamon, and allspice, blanketed with soft-ball-stage caramel icing made from brown sugar, butter, and cream.

Bread machine Christmas bread: a sweet cardamom-scented yeast loaf with cinnamon, sugar, and chopped nuts. Scandinavian holiday baking made hands-off.