10,000 chopped recipes

Pears Helene is a classic French dessert of poached pear halves served with hot chocolate sauce and optional vanilla ice cream and chopped almonds. Elegant, timeless, and surprisingly simple to make at home.

Mom's pineapple nut loaf with crushed pineapple, golden raisins, and chopped nuts in a simple quick bread batter. A moist, fruity loaf where the pineapple juice activates the baking soda for a tender crumb.

Lincoln almond cake: a tall white butter cake with chopped blanched almonds folded through, lifted by stiff-beaten egg whites and baked in a bundt pan. Tender, fragrant, snowy-white.

Ribbon cookies with three colorful layers: red rum-flavored, green with chopped nuts, and chocolate, pressed in a loaf pan and sliced thin. A festive holiday cookie for Christmas tins.

Minted peaches and melons is a fresh summer fruit salad of ripe peaches and cantaloupe in a light orange-lemon dressing, finished with chopped mint and toasted almonds. No cooking, and easy to make ahead.

Pesto pasta shells with sauteed leeks, sun-dried tomatoes, black olives, and chopped hard-boiled eggs topped with Parmesan. A quick vegetarian pasta dinner.

Mini brownie cups with a cream cheese pastry shell filled with melted semi-sweet chocolate and chopped walnuts. Bite-sized treats baked in mini muffin tins that combine fudgy brownie with a buttery crust.

Ginger walnut drop biscuits with fresh ginger root puree, brown sugar, and finely chopped walnuts in a buttery biscuit dough. A warmly spiced, no-rolling biscuit baked golden in 17 minutes.

Macadamia chiffon pie folds rum-spiked custard, beaten egg whites, and chopped macadamias into a feather-light filling, set with gelatin and topped with rum whipped cream. A retro showpiece pie.

Eye-catching pinwheel cookies made from cocoa-rich chocolate dough, shaped with corner-cut slits and filled with a sweet cream cheese and coconut center topped with chopped nuts. A stunning cookie tray showpiece.

Onion rye bread with chopped onion, caraway, sesame seeds, and Dijon baked into the dough. Deli-style oval loaf with a shiny egg-glazed crust for sandwiches or toast.

Fresh raspberry sour cream cake bakes whole berries and chopped walnuts into a tender tube cake. Topped with whipped cream and sugared raspberries for a summer dessert table centerpiece.

Sicilian tomato pesto with toasted pine nuts, fresh basil, Parmesan, and red pepper flakes folded with chopped tomatoes and tossed through linguine. Bright, rustic, and ready in 30 minutes.

Halloween candy corn bars layer chopped chocolate cookies, salty pretzels, and raisins under a white chocolate drizzle, then top with candy corn and Halloween sprinkles. A no-bake bark-style treat kids can help make.

Fudge cakes with melted unsweetened chocolate, butter, and chopped nuts in a light batter lifted with stiffly beaten egg whites. Somewhere between a brownie and a cake, frosted and cut into bars.

Sour cream raisin and nut pie cooks in a double boiler with tangy sour cream, plump raisins, cinnamon, clove, and chopped nuts, topped with a torched meringue. Old-fashioned prairie pie classic.