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Holiday sugar cookies rolled and cut into shapes, dusted with colored sprinkles, and baked tender with a quiet hint of cinnamon. The classic Christmas cookie tin staple.

Deep dish fresh peach pie with cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice under a flaky single-crust top. Baked hot then low for a bubbly, golden summer dessert.

Chocolate and nut crumb cake built on a yellow cake base with a buttery cinnamon-chocolate-chip-nut crumble baked into the top. Semi-homemade dessert with bakery-style results.

Spice and nut thumbprint cookies with ground pecans, cinnamon, and jam filling. Buttery shortbread-style cookies with a fruity center, perfect for holiday baking.

Cheese apple pie with cinnamon-spiced apples topped with a cheddar biscuit crust baked until golden and crisp. The classic apple-cheddar pairing in dessert form.

Caramelized bananas in brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and lemon juice. A five-minute warm dessert served over vanilla ice cream.

Crunchy candied pecans coated in a cinnamon-vanilla meringue and slow-baked in butter. These addictive Swedish Nuts are the holiday snack your guests will fight over.

Traditional Portuguese sweetbread with a buttery, cinnamon-scented crumb and golden egg-washed crust. This soft yeast bread needs two rises for the lightest, most tender loaf.

Chocolate thumbprint cookies rolled in chopped nuts with melted chocolate chips swirled into each indent. Buttery, nutty, and rich with a double dose of chocolate.

Flourless chocolate espresso cake baked in a water bath with a pound of butter, two types of chocolate, and a fresh raspberry puree sauce. Dense, fudgy, and gluten-free.

This is a very easy dish to put together, just a matter of mixing all the ingredients together and baking for 30 minutes. The sauce needs to be reduced at the end of the cooking, but that only takes about 5 minutes. I suggest that you serve it with a Saag aloo and rice.

Garden herb bread machine loaf scented with chives, marjoram, thyme and basil. The taste of Thanksgiving stuffing in a sliceable yeasted bread, with sizing for small or large loaf machines.

Sugarplum cookies with dried or candied fruit hidden inside each ball of vanilla sugar cookie dough. Topped with creamy frosting and colored sugar for Christmas cookie trays.

Soft molasses cookies spiced with ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. A classic LA Times recipe that bakes up thick, cakey, and deeply spiced.

Sauteed beef tips with shiitakes: pan-seared tenderloin cubes with earthy shiitake mushrooms, shallots, spinach, white wine, and a cream-butter pan sauce. 20-minute restaurant plate.

Bacardi rum cake made with yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, pecans, and dark rum, then soaked in a buttery rum syrup. A boozy, sticky bundt cake that's a holiday classic.