Raisin Recipes

Oatmeal coconut crisps are a big-batch cookie with brown sugar, butter, rolled oats, and coconut baked until crisp at the edges and chewy in the center.

Oatmeal Drop Cookies with Nuts and Raisins recipe

Lower-sugar oatmeal raisin drop cookies with rolled oats, cinnamon, brown sugar, and just a quarter cup of margarine. A lighter take on the classic cookie that still delivers chewy oat texture and warm spice.

Rich and flavorful, these cookies are packed with add-ins and can be made in jumbo or regular size.

Greek oil cake (gliko tapsiou me ladi) is a dairy-free, egg-free spice cake made with olive oil, orange juice, walnuts, and raisins. Naturally vegan and Lenten-friendly.

Old-fashioned coconut oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, wheat germ, and brown sugar. A chewy, textured drop cookie with oats, coconut, and a boost of nutrition from wheat germ.

Orange nut bread with bright orange zest and juice baked into a tender loaf studded with chopped almonds and raisins. Wrap and rest overnight for clean slicing.

Orange raisin bubble ring, a pull-apart yeast bread with buttered dough balls rolled in orange-zest sugar and layered in a tube pan with raisins. Served warm for breakfast or brunch.

Pastelitos, little hand pies filled with mashed dried fruit, honey, and cinnamon in a flaky shortening crust. A traditional Latin American fruit turnover baked golden.

Peanut butter thumbprint cookies with a chewy raisin-date filling in the center. Nostalgic, tender, and less sweet than the jam-filled version. Makes 60 cookies.

Soft persimmon cookies with warming cloves and cinnamon, packed with raisins and nuts. Old-fashioned fall harvest treat.

Pineapple raisin jumble cookies with crushed pineapple, toasted almonds, orange zest, and raisins. A fruity, egg-free drop cookie with tropical flair.

Plum cake is the grand Victorian celebration fruitcake: pounds of raisins, currants, dates, citron, and almonds bound by spiced butter cake batter. Christmas, weddings, and christenings on a serious scale.

Poor Man's Cake: a Depression-era boiled raisin cake spiced with cinnamon, cloves and allspice. No eggs, no milk, no butter. Just pantry basics, lard and the magic of plumped raisins.

Baked potatoes topped with spiced chicken strips in a cinnamon-paprika gravy with toasted almonds and raisins. A Moroccan-inspired loaded potato dinner.

Pressure cooker ricotta cheesecake: a creamy Italian-style cheesecake with golden raisins and lemon zest, steamed to perfection in just 20 minutes under pressure. No cracks, no water bath fuss.