10,000 la king recipes

Herbed focaccia, a crisp Italian flatbread with a touch of cornmeal, brushed with warm garlic-herb olive oil and showered with kosher salt. Thin and crackly, it's made for open sandwiches and freezes well.

Peanut butter shortbread: round pan-pressed shortbread with peanut butter in the dough and a peanut butter icing topped with melted white chocolate drizzle. Two pan-rounds.

Chewy peanut butter chip bars with deep cocoa brownie batter and pockets of peanut butter chips. A jelly-roll pan recipe that yields four dozen fudgy chocolate bars.

Chocolate chip cookies with a secret in the technique: beat the margarine and sugars until fluffy and pale before anything else joins the bowl. Crisp edges, soft centers, walnut crunch.

Buttery cinnamon crinkle cookies with a cinnamon-sugar crust and a pecan half pressed into each center. Cream of tartar gives them that signature chewy-crisp edge.

No-bake cheesecake sets on a graham cracker crust, then gets decorated with star-shaped cutouts filled with warm strawberry jam and a border of fresh blueberries for easy July 4th entertaining.

Shareable apple oatmeal cookie pizza topped with melted chocolate, pecans, and vanilla glaze for a fun party dessert that feeds a crowd on one pan.

Peppernuts cookies with ground raisins, coconut, and nuts in a brown sugar-buttermilk dough, rolled into ropes and cut into bite-sized pieces. A Mennonite holiday tradition.

Basic bread with a hint of basil that will keep you in the kitchen until it's done!

Sweeter and a bit more dense than traditional bagels, these Montreal-style bagels are hand-rolled and boiled briefly in honey water

Light and fluffy buttermilk-style breakfast pancakes from a classic batter of flour, eggs, milk, and melted butter. Tall, tender stacks ready in 30 minutes for fresh fruit and maple syrup.

Two-ingredient Grape-Nuts pie crust made with just cereal and orange juice. No baking, no butter. Press into a pan and freeze for a crunchy, low-fat base.

Buttermilk bran muffins with raisins, walnuts, and cinnamon. High-fiber breakfast muffins made with miller's bran, ready in 30 minutes. Big batch makes 12.

These pan roasted fingerling potatoes are tender inside and crispy outside. Garlic, onion and sage add extra yumminess, and it's easy to make.

Chocolate hippenmasse: thin, crisp German pastry wafers made with almond paste, cocoa, and cinnamon. Spread paper-thin, baked until glossy, and cut or shaped while still warm.

Fudgy chocolate raspberry brownies with a hidden layer of raspberry preserves sandwiched between rich unsweetened chocolate batter loaded with toasted walnuts.