229 denise recipes

Red velvet pound cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with cocoa, shortening, and seven eggs for a dense, velvety crumb. Topped with cream cheese icing.

Traditional English plum pudding, a steamed Christmas classic packed with raisins, currants, apples, walnuts, and beef suet. Spiced, dense, and deeply boozy-optional.

Multi-grain nut bread made in a bread machine with seven flours and grains, walnuts, sunflower seeds, sesame, and poppy seeds. Dense, hearty, and honey-sweetened.

Pinto bean bread, a soft yeast loaf made with mashed pinto beans for extra protein, fiber, and a dense, tender crumb. Rustic and surprisingly good for sandwiches.

Hornet's Nest Cake mixes yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding, butterscotch chips, and chopped nuts for a dense, rich sheet cake that comes together in minutes.

Russian black bread made with rye flour, molasses, unsweetened chocolate, instant coffee, and caraway seeds. Dense, dark, and deeply flavored with a glossy cornstarch glaze.

Mississippi mud cake loaded with cocoa, butter, and pecans under a thick chocolate buttercream icing. Dense, fudgy, and unapologetically Southern.

A gluten-free steamed bread made with amaranth flour, brown rice flour, oats, dried apricots, and ground almonds, sweetened with molasses. Dense, moist, and naturally wheat-free.

Peanut butter bars for a crowd yields 8 dozen from three sheet pans. A big-batch recipe with a chewy, dense peanut butter cookie base dusted with powdered sugar.

Finnish sour rye bread with a four-day natural starter, rye and white flour blend, and an egg wash finish. A dense, tangy, traditionally fermented loaf.

Salt-rising bread made with a potato water starter fermented overnight. A heritage Appalachian yeast bread with a distinctive tangy flavor and dense crumb.

Norwegian nut bread baked in cans with almonds, filberts, sunflower seeds, raisins, and orange zest. A dense, hearty Scandinavian quick bread with whole wheat and buttermilk.

No-cook chocolate walnut fudge made with just cocoa, powdered sugar, hot butter, and chopped walnuts. Rich, dense, and ready to set in the fridge with no candy thermometer.

Spicy banana cake baked in a tube pan with cinnamon, cloves, raisins, and pecans. A warmly spiced, dense crumb that turns overripe bananas into something worth slicing thick.

Sesame amaranth cake with triple-sesame flavor from tahini, sesame oil, and ground sesame seeds. Dense, golden, and honey-sweetened with a halvah-like richness and satisfying crumble.

Whole wheat 7-grain bread with honey, eggs, and seven grain cereal baked into a hearty, no-knead loaf. Makes two dense, nutritious loaves with a chewy, multi-grain texture.