Snack Recipes

Double chocolate snack cake made with no eggs or butter, using vinegar and baking soda for lift. Cocoa batter topped with chocolate chips bakes into a fudgy one-bowl treat.

Almond cinnamon-raisin biscotti with brandy and vanilla, twice-baked in the classic Italian style. Crisp, lightly spiced cookies for dipping in coffee, tea, or a glass of vin santo.

Banana fritters in a nutmeg-spiced batter, deep-fried until golden and tossed in powdered sugar. A quick stovetop dessert ready in under 25 minutes.

Black pepper biscotti studded with sweet chopped figs, twice-baked to a crisp snap. The peppery warmth plays against the figs' honeyed sweetness, making these as good with a cheese board and wine as with coffee.

This bread is a great way to get healthy veggies into your kids! Spread with light cream cheese for a delicious treat! Makes 2 loaves.

Virginia Lane of Cudahy secured this recipe, with its nice complexity of flavors, in the late '50s or '60s when she lived in Iran.

Basic breakfast muffins made with flour, honey, and applesauce. No butter, no eggs, no oil. Six pantry ingredients turn into soft, lightly sweet muffins in 45 minutes.

Banana apple bread combines three ripe bananas with chunky chopped apples for a moist, fruit-loaded quick bread. Topped with chopped almonds for crunch, perfect for breakfast or brown-bag snacks.

Moist banana nut bread baked low and slow until the crumb turns tender and the crust deepens to gold. Made with ripe mashed bananas, melted butter, and a handful of crunchy nuts in every slice.

Skinny banana muffins lean on ripe mashed banana for moisture and sweetness, with just a quarter cup of oil and skim milk. A lighter, fluffy banana muffin that doesn't taste like a diet compromise.

Moist breakfast apple muffins lightened with applesauce, buttermilk, and egg whites. Just two tablespoons of oil and chunks of fresh apple in every cinnamon-spiced bite.

Cranberry pumpkin muffins fold tart fresh cranberries into a spiced pumpkin batter for a tender breakfast muffin balanced between sweet and tangy. The autumn pairing in muffin form.

Lower-fat banana bread with fresh berries, made with whipped egg whites instead of whole eggs and just a third cup of margarine. A lighter quickbread that stays moist for days.

Citrus blueberry muffins with bright orange zest folded through a tender buttermilk-style batter and studded with juicy blueberries. Easy 30-minute breakfast bake.

Poppy seeds pop in this lemon poppyseed muffins with glaze recipe. Easy to make.

These muffins are packed with the delicious flavor of blueberries!