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A delicious,moist cake with a very unusual icing and a pleasant texture!

Fresh strawberries baked between two layers of buttery oat, brown sugar, and walnut crumble. Warm from the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, this is what summer weeknights were made for.

From-scratch chocolate cake with melted unsweetened chocolate, cake flour, and iced water, topped with a whipped chocolate frosting beaten over ice until fluffy and light.

Coca Cola cake, a moist, fudgy chocolate cake with cola whisked into both the batter and the glossy poured frosting. The fizz keeps the crumb tender while a warm cocoa icing sinks right in.

Cinnamon buns or rolls are always our favorite. Glaze is made with cream cheese, icing sugar and maple syrup, which gives the cinnamon buns creaminess and extra sweetness. Have these delicious buns with a cup of coffee.

Fresh and seasonal plums, creamy and rich custard are baked together to make this irresistibly decadent plum clafoutis.

Heart-shaped sugar cookies made the old-fashioned way with lard, sour milk, and a hint of nutmeg. Tender, slightly flaky cut-outs ready for royal icing or sprinkles. A Valentine's Day classic.

Tollhouse pie bakes chocolate chip cookie dough right into a buttery pie shell. Gooey chocolate morsels, crunchy walnuts, and brown sugar custard in every warm forkful. Top with vanilla ice cream and prepare for requests for seconds.

Homemade sour cream cinnamon rolls with a soft yeasted dough, brown sugar cinnamon filling, and vanilla confectioners sugar icing. The sour cream makes them impossibly tender. Makes 12.

Old-fashioned peach pie with sliced fresh peaches, sugar, flour and nutmeg under a hand-woven lattice crust. Baked until the juices bubble through the weave. Serve warm with cream or vanilla ice cream.

Oven-baked dessert pancake (Dutch baby): a giant puffed pancake baked in a hot skillet with butter, then dusted with sugar and lemon juice. Fill with fruit or ice cream for an instant dessert.

Kahlua mousse brownies, a thin sheet brownie spiked with coffee liqueur and instant coffee for deep chocolate-mocha flavor. Bake in a jelly roll pan and sandwich with ice cream for a fancy dessert.

Reduce the fat of a full flavored quiche Lorraine by replacing the cream with buttermilk and using an easy press in the pan crust.

Fresh grated carrots, toasted walnuts, coconut, and crushed pineapple pack this cinnamon-spiced bundt cake. Cream cheese icing and grated carrot garnish finish it off.

Moist chocolate cake with hot coffee bloomed into the batter for deep cocoa flavor, paired with old-fashioned ermine icing whipped from a cooked flour-milk paste. Vintage two-layer cake done right.

Rolled sugar cookies with a tender, sturdy crumb that holds its shape through every cookie cutter. The chilled dough rolls cleanly to a quarter inch and bakes pale-edged, ready for royal icing or sprinkles.