Almond Recipes

No-bake chocolate truffles shaped like tiny mice with almond ears, dragee eyes, and licorice tails. A fun holiday treat kids love to make and eat. Makes 2 dozen.

Moravian Christmas loaf is a soft yeast bread studded with raisins, currants, and citron, topped with sliced almonds. Traditional Pennsylvania Moravian holiday bread with an overnight sponge.

Cold fruited chicken salad with dried apricots, orange segments, grapes, and toasted almonds in a white wine-vinegar dressing. A light, low-calorie summer lunch.

Biscotti Napoletani: traditional eggless Italian almond biscotti with whole and ground almonds, sweetened with corn syrup. Twice-baked Neapolitan cookies built for dunking in espresso or vin santo.

Turkey crunch casserole with slivered almonds, mushrooms, celery, and chow mein noodles on top. A 40-minute leftover turkey recipe that works equally well with chicken or ham.

Tender almond crescent cookies with oats and vanilla, showered in powdered sugar. This recipe makes four dozen, so there's plenty for the cookie exchange.

Thin, crispy lacy almond cookies with just five ingredients: blanched almonds, sugar, butter, flour, and milk. Delicate, caramelized, and ready in under 30 minutes.

A sour cream coffee cake recipe with a ribbon of cherry pie filling topped with a delicious almond crumble.

Apple strudel wraps sliced apples, raisins, ground almonds, lemon zest, and cinnamon in buttery layers of crisp phyllo pastry. Old-world Austrian dessert that makes two strudels from one batch.

Almond biscotti baked the classic Italian way: twice in the oven for that signature dry, dunkable crunch. A simple base recipe with toasted almonds that keeps for months in a tin.

Homemade granola mix bakes ten cups of rolled oats, coconut, sunflower seeds, sesame, and nuts in a honey-molasses syrup. Big-batch breakfast that stores six months.

Make Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk at home: rich chocolate ice cream loaded with white and dark chocolate chunks, pecans, walnuts, and chocolate-covered almonds.

Cubed SPAM and broccoli in a creamy cream cheese and Parmesan sauce, baked under a cheesy buttermilk biscuit topping with sliced almonds. A cozy, hearty stew-casserole hybrid that feeds eight.

Quick sauteed apples with amaretto glaze, raisins, and toasted almonds. Warm, boozy dessert ready in 15 minutes, topped with whipped cream.

Authentic biscotti di Prato from Tuscany. Twice-baked Italian almond cookies with toasted almonds, a pinch of saffron, and the traditional pasta-board well method. Crisp, dunkable, and built to keep.

Easy amaretto cake built on a doctored yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding, toasted almonds, and a buttery amaretto-soaked glaze. The bundt that fooled every dinner party into thinking you spent all day.