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Lehigh County oatmeal cookies with almond extract, rolled oats, and melted butter. A thin, crispy Pennsylvania Dutch heritage cookie that bakes in just 5 minutes.

No-bake frozen chocolate torte with 11 ounces of melted chocolate, brandy, broken biscuits, and toasted whole hazelnuts. Rich, dense, and served straight from the freezer like an Italian semifreddo.

Ribbon refrigerator cake with layers of graham crackers and a pineapple-walnut filling set with gelatin. A vintage no-bake icebox dessert topped with whipped cream.

Buttery old-fashioned tea muffins studded with plump raisins, lightly sweetened and baked until golden. A quick, simple teatime treat with a tender crumb that pairs beautifully with jam, clotted cream, or a hot cup of Earl Grey.

Soft, yeasted rolls swirled with brown sugar, cinnamon, and black walnuts, baked in a buttery butterscotch coating that pools over each warm roll. Old-fashioned sticky bun goodness from scratch.

Tender butter cookies studded with chopped fresh strawberries and scented with nutmeg and brandy, dusted in powdered sugar. Little jewel-like bites that melt on the tongue.

Lemon slice pie uses paper-thin slices of the whole lemon (peel and all) baked into a sugary egg custard between two crusts. Like a Shaker lemon pie with surprising bites of citrus marmalade.

Flambe bananas in brown sugar butter sauce with raisins, walnuts, and brandy. A 15-minute showstopper dessert with caramelized fruit and a dramatic flame finish.

Orange biscuits rolled jelly-roll style with butter, orange juice, and zest, then sliced into spirals and baked hot. The breakfast pinwheel that turns plain biscuit dough into citrus-perfumed swirls in 45 minutes.

Classic buttery shortbread squares with unsalted butter, powdered sugar, and a candied cherry on each. Tender, crumbly, and they improve with age stored in a tin.

Pistachio torte with 2 cups of finely chopped pistachios and breadcrumbs standing in for flour, lifted with beaten egg whites, and topped with a cup of lemon curd. A proper European-style celebration cake.

Classic anise cookies build a meringue-like base from eggs whipped with sugar for 30 minutes, then rest overnight before baking into pillowy, licorice-scented Italian cookies.

Old-fashioned cake doughnuts with nutmeg and ginger, deep fried and tossed in cinnamon sugar. A simple from-scratch doughnut recipe that rests before frying for a tender crumb.

Flaky biscuit dough rolled with sour cherries, sliced into pinwheels, and baked golden. Served warm with a homemade cherry sauce and ice cream or sherbet.

Easy bread machine oatmeal bread with a soft tender crumb and gentle nutty flavor from rolled oats. Eight ingredients, one bread machine, hands-free everyday sandwich loaf.

Mako shark steak au poivre borrows the classic French steak au poivre treatment for meaty shark, seared in cracked pepper and napped with a Cognac-cream pan sauce. A 1980s steakhouse twist on a bistro classic.