Recipes with eggs

Spicy bean cake made with mashed pinto beans, diced apples, raisins, and warm spices like cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Add cocoa for a chocolate version.

Italian-style mini meatloaves with oats, olives, and Italian seasoning, topped with tomato sauce and melted mozzarella. Individual portions that bake in 30 minutes with oven or microwave directions.

Frozen French Toast made with thick Texas toast soaked in an egg-milk-nutmeg custard, frozen flat, then baked from frozen for crispy weekday breakfasts in minutes.

Sugarplum cookies made with Kool-Aid mix for bright colors and fruity flavor. Rolled sugar cookies kids love to cut out and decorate in rainbow batches.

Chocolate chess pie is the Southern classic with a fudgy, brownie-like filling baked in a flaky crust. Six ingredients, no fancy techniques, just rich chocolate satisfaction.

Orange chocolate chunk cookies with real orange zest, orange extract, and coarsely chopped chocolate baked low and slow for chewy centers and crisp edges.

Spaghetti carbonara with bacon, beaten eggs, white wine, butter, and grated Italian cheese. The hot pasta cooks the eggs into a creamy, silky sauce right in the bowl.

Red pepper and goat cheese frittata with fresh oregano and scallions. An 18-minute stovetop-to-broiler vegetarian brunch dish that slices clean and feeds six.

Upside-down apple gingerbread with sliced apples in brown sugar on the bottom, topped with a spiced molasses cake made with hot tea. A warm fall dessert inverted onto a plate.

Hand-shaped vanilla almond cookies baked low and slow for a tender, shortbread-like crumb. Simple butter cookie dough with finely chopped almonds throughout.

Banana layer cake stacks two tender 8-inch rounds and slathers them in a real banana frosting brightened with lemon juice. Twice the banana, twice the reason to skip the boxed mix.

Old-fashioned chess-style custard pie with butter, eggs, evaporated milk and vanilla baked into a single crust. Sweet, silky filling that sets to a glossy finish. A Depression-era Southern classic.

Velvet cake is a flourless-style chocolate showpiece pooled over white chocolate and raspberry sauces. Dense, fudgy, and made with just six ingredients in the cake itself, it slices like a torte and tastes like ganache.

Cinnamon raisin French toast soaked in a buttermilk-egg custard with vanilla and nutmeg, pan-fried in butter until crisp and golden. Served with date-nut butter and powdered sugar.

Quick whole wheat muffins using Nora Mill muffin mix, buttermilk, eggs, and melted butter. Just four ingredients and 20 minutes in a hot oven for hearty, rustic muffins.

Sausage-stuffed hamburger rolls wrap apple-spiced ground beef around pork sausage links, then simmer in pan gravy. A fall-flavored take on Scandinavian beef rolls.