609 ear recipes

Nutty apricot bars with a coconut-pecan crumble crust and jammy dried apricot filling. A layered fruit bar that's part cookie, part shortcake, chilled and sliced from the pan.

No-bake muesli bars with oats, crushed cornflakes, coconut, dried fruit, and peanut butter held together with a buttery honey sauce. Chilled and sliced into chewy snack bars.

Skip the chocolate bar, and try these scrumptious treats that will satisfy your sweet tooth.

Two-layer apricot bars with a buttery shortbread base and a chewy brown sugar-apricot-nut topping, rolled in powdered sugar. Makes 75 bite-sized bars from one pan.

German-style honey spice bars with cinnamon, allspice, cloves, ground almonds, and lemon zest, finished with a rum-almond glaze. These keep for weeks in a sealed container, making them ideal holiday baking.

Tipton bars made with chocolate almond bark, Froot Loops, crisp rice cereal, and mini marshmallows. A no-bake candy bar treat that kids love, set and sliced in under an hour.

Dense apricot bars sweetened with maple syrup and loaded with dried apricots, walnuts, and cashews. No eggs, no butter, finished with powdered sugar icing and optional chocolate drizzle.

Chewy fig bars made with dried figs, brown sugar, lemon zest, and vanilla in a simple one-pan batter. A homemade alternative to store-bought fig cookies with real fruit flavor.

These scrumptious snacks are perfect for a light breakfast or for the kids lunchbags.

Hearty lentil soup with potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, garlic, and oregano in chicken broth. A dump-and-simmer recipe that feeds 10 with almost no active cooking time.

Oat fruit bars layered with dried apricots, dates, and prunes in a buttery brown sugar and corn syrup base. Chewy, naturally sweet, and no mixer required.

Snickers bar brownie cake with a German chocolate cake mix crust, melted candy center, and crumbly chocolate streusel top. Four-ingredient dump cake magic.

Coconut dream bars with a brown sugar oat shortbread base topped with a chewy layer of shredded coconut, pecans, lemon zest, and brown sugar. Two layers, two textures, one irresistible bar cookie.

Heath bar cookie bars with crushed toffee candy, pecans, and brown sugar in a streusel-topped batter baked in a pan. A chewy, butterscotch-flavored bar cookie with candy crunch.

Buttery shortbread crust topped with a fluffy almond paste filling, folded egg whites, lemon juice, and flaked coconut. A Dutch bakery classic that yields 50 bars from one pan.

This is a traditional Canadian sweet, much loved and admired. The origin of the recipe seems to be lost in the mists of time, though everyone seems to agree that it comes from the town of Nanaimo, in British Columbia.