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A simple but rich pudding cake that can easily be made with some help from your crockpot.

A dense, fudgy chocolate banana tube cake made with devil's food cake mix, chocolate pudding mix, and three mashed bananas. Minimal prep, maximum chocolate flavor. Serves 12.

Southern Japanese fruitcake: a 4-layer cake alternating plain butter cake with spiced pecan-and-raisin layers, bound by a thick lemon-coconut filling. A vintage Christmas dessert from the American South with a name that has nothing to do with Japan.

Cheesehorns: soft whole-wheat yeast rolls wrapped around cheese slices and mixed herbs, baked into crescent-shaped savory horns. A make-ahead snack or dinner-basket bread.

Pfitzauf, the German popover relative from Swabia. A tall, hollow, eggy baked pastry with crisp walls and a steamy interior. Five ingredients, impressive rise.

Lovelight chiffon cake, a tender cake-flour sheet cake leavened with stiff-peaked meringue and brightened with lemon extract. The featherlight 1950s church-supper classic, baked in a 9x13 pan.

The classic Southern Living sweet potato casserole: a creamy, custardy mash of sweet potatoes baked under a buttery brown-sugar pecan crumble. No marshmallows here, just a crunchy praline-style topping. A holiday must.

Rough puff pastry is the home cook's shortcut to puff pastry, made by folding walnut-sized chunks of cold fat through a soft dough four to five times. Flaky enough for tart shells, vol-au-vents, and turnovers.

Christopsomo: a traditional Greek Christmas bread with semolina, citrus zest from oranges and tangerines, currants, golden raisins, and a warming blend of cinnamon, anise, coriander, and cloves.

Hungarian-style cream cheese triangles (kiflis) with a tender pastry dough wrapped around prune butter or fruit jam, baked golden, and dusted with powdered sugar. A classic holiday cookie tin staple.

Cream cheese pie dough made with just four ingredients: butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and flour. Rich, flaky, and freezer-friendly for up to 2 months.

Hearty whole grain bread loaded with oats, wheat germ, bran, and chopped pecans. This rustic loaf delivers nutty flavor and dense texture with a crunchy sunflower seed topping.

Hungarian-style paprika cream schnitzel with veal browned in bacon fat, simmered in sour cream and tomato sauce. A rich, comforting Central European classic.

Fry bread made from flour, baking powder, milk, and water shaped into thin discs and fried golden in hot oil. The puffy, pillowy base for Indian tacos, sweet honey drizzles, or savory toppings.

Raisin oatmeal bread is a soft, lightly sweet bread machine loaf made with rolled oats, molasses, and plump raisins. Set it and walk away.

A puffy, golden oven-baked pancake with just 4 ingredients. This Yorkshire pancake puffs up dramatically, then gets a squeeze of lemon and dusting of powdered sugar.