Boston cookies are an old-fashioned drop cookie with cinnamon, raisins and chopped walnuts in a simple butter-sugar base. Soft in the middle, lightly chewy at the edges, ready in 30 minutes.
Old-fashioned Christmas Rocks cookies bursting with candied fruit, dates, figs, pecans, raisins, and currants in a cocoa-spiced batter with a hint of coffee. Dense, chewy, and built to last.
New Zealand rock cakes with butter, raisins, and orange marmalade, baked rough and craggy on purpose. A rustic teatime scone that comes together in 30 minutes with no special equipment.
Apple custard cake layered on a buttery lemon shortcrust, with rum-soaked raisins and tart apples under a baked vanilla custard that sets soft and creamy. A bakery-style dessert with a boozy backbone.
Use your bead machine to make this delicious and traditional Irish barmbrack bread.
Quick sauteed apples with amaretto glaze, raisins, and toasted almonds. Warm, boozy dessert ready in 15 minutes, topped with whipped cream.
Honey Whole Wheat Zucchini Oatmeal Cookies: chewy whole grain cookies sweetened with honey, packed with rolled oats, raisins, and shredded zucchini. Four dozen wholesome bites.
Kentucky blackberry jam cake bakes a deeply spiced cake with blackberry jam, pineapple-soaked raisins, pecans, and warm cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. Heirloom Southern holiday cake.
Hungarian Christmas bread (makos beigli-inspired loaf): a buttery, lemon-scented yeast bread with a sweet poppy seed and raisin filling. A bread-machine shortcut for the holidays.
Big, hearty banana peanut butter oat cookies loaded with raisins and brown sugar. No mixer needed for these chewy drop cookies. Makes 18 jumbo-sized jumbles in 30 minutes.
Real-meat mincemeat in a manageable 20-serving batch. Beef, suet, apples, raisins, citron, and orange zest simmer with strong coffee, molasses, and warming spices into a deeply flavored holiday pie filling.
Real-meat mincemeat in a manageable 20-serving batch. Beef, suet, apples, raisins, citron, and orange zest simmer with strong coffee, molasses, and warming spices into a deeply flavored holiday pie filling.
Traditional Russian Pascha (Paskha) made with cream cheese, butter, raisins, sultanas, and cherries, drained in muslin for 24 hours. A rich, no-bake Easter dessert.
Authentic homemade mincemeat with beef, pork, raisins, dried apricots and peaches, apples, brown sugar, and warm spices simmered together. The traditional meat-based filling for old-fashioned Christmas mince pies.
Spicy oatmeal cookies loaded with raisins, nuts, and a bold mix of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and allspice. Chewy, warmly spiced, and packed with brown sugar flavor.
German Christmas stollen with rum-soaked currants, sultanas, chopped almonds, candied peel, and cottage cheese for a moist, rich holiday bread dusted in powdered sugar.