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Grasshopper brownies with fudgy chocolate base, minty creme de menthe cream cheese filling, and a glossy semi-sweet chocolate ganache top. Three-layer mint chocolate bars for the holidays.

Polvorones: traditional Mexican pecan cookies made with butter and lard, spiced with cinnamon and anise seed. Sandy, crumbly, and sugar-coated.

Black Russian brownies stacked with Kahlua, vodka, and a whisper of black pepper for a fudgy, boozy bite. Named for the cocktail, walnut-studded, and built on unsweetened chocolate so the cocoa keeps its bitter edge.

Quick caramel apple pie with quartered caramel candies, caramel ice cream topping, diced unpeeled apples, and a pecan topping. Uses a store-bought crust for easy assembly.

Deep-dish peach pie: a baking dish heaped with juicy peaches and brown sugar under a single flaky, golden top crust. A fruit-forward summer pie that lets the peaches shine.

Brown sugar blondies studded with semi-sweet and white chocolate chips, served warm with vanilla ice cream and homemade butterscotch sauce. The ultimate weeknight-to-dinner-party dessert.

Butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, marshmallows and nuts. Guarenteed to satisfy every sweet tooth.

Zesty fig and date pastry bars with walnuts, orange juice, and lemon zest on a buttery shortbread crust with a crisscross lattice top. A bright, old-school cookie bar.

Buttery shortbread sticks studded with mini chocolate chips, baked golden, and dipped in melted chocolate. Four ingredients in the dough, shaped like little biscotti logs. Simple, elegant, and impossible to eat just one.

Low-fat pineapple cheesecake pie made with cottage cheese instead of cream cheese, set with gelatin, and lightened with whipped egg whites. A no-bake, fluffy, tangy-sweet dessert with crushed pineapple.

Crisp crust apple pie bakes thinly sliced apples in cinnamon sugar under a shortening-based pastry crust topped with more cinnamon sugar and butter pats. Cobbler-style with a shattering top.

Whole wheat cinnamon fruit scones: tender, lightly sweet scones spiced with cinnamon and clove, studded with dried figs, dates or cherries. Nutty whole-grain flavor and a golden, egg-washed top for breakfast or tea.

Macadamia nut cookies with a whole nut wrapped in buttery shortbread dough and drizzled with melted chocolate. Bite-sized Hawaiian-inspired treats baked in 13 minutes.

Italian meatball cookies with warm spices, cocoa, raisins, nuts, and chocolate chips rolled into small round drops. A traditional Italian-American holiday cookie that looks like its dinner-table namesake.

Chocolate pudding brownies use cook-and-serve pudding mix as the cocoa base, giving fudgy bars with a tender crumb and deep chocolate flavor. Topped with powdered sugar.

My husband's baseball team prefers these cookies to chocolate chip..... if I make anything else, I have to have Alabama's too!