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Soft molasses drop cookies spiced with warming ginger and cloves that stay moist and chewy when you don't overbake them. Classic old-fashioned cookies made without eggs for a simple, reliable recipe.

Date oatmeal bars with a thick, jammy date filling sandwiched between two layers of buttery oat crumble. A vintage three-layer bar cookie that's chewy, sweet, and wholesome.

Chocolate shortbread made with just 5 ingredients: butter, powdered sugar, cocoa, vanilla, and flour. Rich, crumbly, and baked low and slow in a shortbread pan.

Classic Tex-Mex beef enchiladas with homemade meat sauce and sharp cheddar, plus instructions for both rolled and New Mexico stacked styles.

Black chocolate cake made with a boiled chocolate-milk-sugar syrup folded into a simple butter batter. Dense, fudgy, and baked in a single 9x13 pan.

Hungarian chicken paprikash, a paprika-stained Budapest classic where bone-in chicken simmers low with onions and peppers, finished with a swirl of sour cream that turns the pan sauce silky and tangy.

Smooth apricot cream made by cooking canned fruit with flour and sugar, then folding in whipped cream for a light topping or cake filling.

Benne wafers, the Charleston Gullah classic of toasted sesame seeds in a thin crisp brown-sugar cookie. African heritage cookies with a buttery snap and deep caramel-nutty flavor.

Bacon-wrapped chicken breasts baked low and slow over smoked beef in a creamy mushroom and sour cream sauce. Five ingredients, zero fuss, and enough to feed a crowd of eight.

Cinnamon-spiced blondies packed with fresh apples and pecans. Soft, cake-like, and perfect warm with vanilla yogurt or a simple glaze drizzled on top.

Buttery sugar cookies studded with colorful candy-coated chocolate pieces, slightly flattened and baked until golden at the edges. Kids absolutely love these sparkly, chewy gems.

Halwa Shebakia: traditional Moroccan fried flower-shaped cookies soaked in honey and coated in toasted sesame seeds. A Ramadan dessert served with harira soup.

Hungarian cream of spinach soup with a roux-thickened base, pureed spinach, and half-and-half. Garnished with sliced hard-boiled eggs and crispy crumbled bacon.

Homemade whole wheat pita pocket bread with just four ingredients: whole wheat flour, yeast, honey, and water. Bakes in 5 minutes at high heat and puffs into perfect pockets.

Four-ingredient broccoli dip with sour cream, ranch-style dressing, and a grating of nutmeg. Ten-minute no-cook party dip that tastes surprisingly fresh despite the frozen broccoli shortcut.

Tangy lemon drops are tender shortbread slice-and-bake cookies made with butter, cake flour, lemon zest, and a snowy dusting of powdered sugar. Four ingredients, melt-in-your-mouth crumb.