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Supernatural brownies are Nick Malgieri's legendary fudge bricks: a full pound each of butter and semisweet chocolate, eight eggs, two sugars, and a shiny crackled top. Bakes a full half-sheet, rests overnight for perfect texture.

Chocolate chip banana nut bread blends mashed ripe bananas with buttermilk into a tender quick bread loaded with mini chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Two loaves from one bowl, perfect for freezing.

Carrot cake loaded with crushed pineapple, coconut, and walnuts. Soaked with hot buttermilk glaze straight out of the oven and finished with orange cream cheese frosting.

Baklava with shatter-crisp phyllo, ground walnuts and almonds, and honey syrup steeped with lemon and orange slices. The classic Greek pastry done properly, in shimmering diamond-cut squares.

Quick bread made with canned pumpkin, dates and walnuts. Perfect for breakfast anytime during the fall season.

Cranberry pumpkin muffins fold tart fresh cranberries into a spiced pumpkin batter for a tender breakfast muffin balanced between sweet and tangy. The autumn pairing in muffin form.

Fudge-pecan pie with bittersweet chocolate melted into a buttery corn syrup filling and loaded with chopped pecans. A holiday-table classic that splits the difference between Southern pecan pie and dense chocolate fudge.

Orange-spiced oatmeal raisin cookies with overnight orange-juice-soaked raisins, orange zest, and rolled oats. Plump, chewy, and citrus-bright.

Cranberry pumpkin bread folds canned pumpkin, fresh cranberries, orange zest, and chopped nuts into a buttery cinnamon-spiced quick bread. Two loaves from one batch, perfect for fall mornings or holiday gifting.

Chocolate cherry cake from a doctored devils food box mix with cherry pie filling and almond extract. Topped with a poured chocolate icing for a moist sheet cake that beats homemade.

The original Toll House chocolate chip cookies, the recipe that started it all: creamed butter and two sugars, vanilla, and chocolate morsels baked into a classic chewy-edged cookie. Add nuts if you like.

This recipe comes from Italy by way of Argentina. Maxwell Mowry of Charleston got this recipe when he lived in Buenos Aires in the early l970s. Since there are more people of Italian ancestry in Argentina than of Spanish ancestry, it is not surprising to find panettone there, where it is called in Spanish pan dulce, meaning 'sweet bread.' At Christmas in Argentina, pan dulce is eaten accompanied by sparkling apple cider. Houseware shops in Argentina sell special tall cylindrical springform pans to bake the pan dulce, but an empty, greased 1-pound coffee can may be used.

Crunchy homemade granola with dates, coconut, almonds, and cashews baked in honey butter with allspice and cinnamon. Makes ahead and stores for two weeks. Kid-friendly breakfast or snacking.

Warm applesauce is a delicious filling for these nutty 12-grain crepes and also packed with goodness.

Southern banana bread with buttermilk and pecans: a moist, tender quick bread enriched with tangy buttermilk and studded with toasted pecans. The Sunday-morning Southern kitchen classic.

Whole wheat prune bread for the bread machine. Hearty fiber-rich loaf sweetened with prunes and molasses, dump-and-go method with no kneading or proofing.