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Easy nut bread mixes pantry staples with chopped nuts into a tender quickbread, rested briefly then baked into two loaves. A no-frills 8-ingredient breakfast bread.

From-scratch griddle cakes with sliced fresh strawberries folded right into a light, fluffy batter. Thirty minutes from bowl to breakfast table, served hot with syrup and butter.

Old-fashioned griddle cakes from scratch with six basic pantry ingredients. Fluffy homemade pancakes with a hint of sweetness, ready in 30 minutes.

Butternut squash and apple bake with brown sugar, butter, and mace. A sweet, tender fall side dish for Thanksgiving or any autumn dinner.

A soft, dark Swedish yeast bread sweetened with molasses and sugar, baked into 4 full loaves. Rich, slightly sweet crumb with a glossy butter-brushed top. A Scandinavian staple for sandwiches or slathered with butter.

Grandma Thorpe's currant pancakes are griddled rolled biscuit-style pancakes studded with dried currants, buttered hot, and dusted with sugar. A British-Welsh heritage breakfast or tea-time treat.

Heart-shaped garlic bread rolls brushed with garlic oil and baked golden. A soft enriched yeast dough cut into fun shapes for Valentine's Day or romantic dinners.

Easy bread machine focaccia with just six ingredients including olive oil and active dry yeast. Hands-off Italian flatbread perfect for sandwiches, dipping, or pizza-style toppings.

Poppyseed cookies made with sweetened poppy seed paste folded into a buttery shortbread-style dough. Tender drop cookies with deep blue speckling and a powdered sugar finish.

Lunn Cake, a traditional English yeast cake baked in a ring mold with scalded milk, eggs, and a light crumb. Served warm with butter, this no-knead bread rises twice for a pillowy texture.

Butterfinger cookies: an icebox slice-and-bake cookie loaded with chunks of chopped Butterfinger candy bars. Crispy, peanut-buttery edges with chewy candy pockets in every bite.

Brown sugar coffee cake with a buttery crumb topping and tender buttermilk crumb. One bowl, seven ingredients, and a method so simple it practically makes itself.

Blueberry Boy Bait is a vintage coffee cake with a buttery crumb topping, tender whipped-egg batter, and fresh blueberries. The 1954 Pillsbury Bake-Off classic.

Walnut crescent cookies rolled in powdered sugar, made with ground walnuts, butter, and egg yolks. Delicate, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread that improves with age.

Crispy, thin ginger snaps made the old-fashioned way by boiling molasses and water first. Brown sugar and real ginger give these cookies a deep, spicy bite. Makes 2 dozen.

Traditional Irish teacakes made with yeasted dough, butter, eggs, and a hint of nutmeg. Soft, golden buns best eaten warm with a generous smear of butter.