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Sour cream coffee cake studded with granola, layered with a butterscotch-cinnamon-nut filling, and drizzled with a warm butterscotch glaze. Brunch just got a whole lot more interesting.

Homemade crepes filled with a vanilla ricotta and cream cheese filling, baked golden, and topped with fresh mixed berries. These lighter cheese blintzes are brunch royalty.

This very rich cake from the West Indies is ideal for those who prefer not to ice their Christmas cakes.

This easy crescent roll vegetable pizza is a favorite go-to for potlucks, showers, or wherever there's a hungry crowd. Use leftover veggies or your lastest garden harvest for toppings.

Chocolate greeting card cake: a moist sour cream chocolate sheet cake ready to decorate with frosting lettering for birthdays, anniversaries, or get-well wishes. Classic, personalizable, and crowd-sized.

Russian pastries (pirozhki) with a tender cream cheese dough wrapped around savory ground beef, sour cream, dill, and chopped egg. Make-ahead friendly and freezer-stable for up to a month.

Yeast tea ring filled with apricots, pecans, brown sugar, and cinnamon, rolled and shaped into a glazed coffee cake. The classic slit-and-turn technique shows off the swirled interior.

Neapolitan cheesecake with three layers: strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate on a chocolate crumb crust. A showstopping ice-cream-inspired dessert in cheesecake form.

I love this french cheesecake, it is one of my favorite cakes.

Homemade fig newtons: a tender brown sugar and sour cream cookie dough wrapped around real homemade fig jam, baked in logs and sliced into soft bars. So much better than the boxed kind.

Crispy breadcrumb-coated chicken baked with onion halves, then served with a creamy sour cream pan sauce made from the drippings. Fork-tender comfort food for 8.

Lisa's chicken chow mein: marinated chicken stir-fried in a smoking-hot wok with bok choy, shiitakes, bean sprouts, and noodles in a soy-oyster-black bean sauce. Restaurant-style in 40 minutes.

Homemade King Cake with a rich sour cream yeast dough rolled with cinnamon sugar and shaped into an oval ring. Decorated with purple, green, and gold frosting and colored sugars for Mardi Gras.

White-chocolate snowflakes balance gracefully on a delicate, lemony three-layer white cake filled with zesty lemon custard and covered with a white-chocolate frosting.

Golden cream puffs filled with tangy vanilla custard and drizzled with homemade caramel sauce. Three components, one spectacular from-scratch dessert.

Crockpot beef stroganoff casserole with ground beef, mushrooms, and sour cream over elbow macaroni. A slow cooker comfort meal with a red wine gravy base.