Raisin Recipes

Granny's boiled fruit cake: an old-fashioned eggless, butterless loaf made by simmering raisins with sugar and shortening, then folding into spiced flour. Plump, moist and Christmas-ready.

Carrot raisin cupcakes with cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar in a tender oil-based batter. A single-bowl muffin-meets-cupcake recipe ready to frost with cream cheese icing.

Hazelnut pumpkin bread bakes up moist and warmly spiced with toasted hazelnuts, raisins, and four classic fall spices. Three loaves from one batch, ideal for gifting.

This granola is filling and loaded with energy filling ingredients. Great with tons of blueberry's and vanilla yogurt as pictured.

Healthier oatmeal raisin cookies made with prune paste instead of butter for lower fat, soft-baked treats in 30 minutes

Loaded carrot cake with coconut, crushed pineapple, raisins, and nuts in a cinnamon-nutmeg batter. A dense, moist cake topped with cream cheese frosting.

Buffalo chip cookies are giant oat-and-cornflake cookies customized with raisins, peanuts, coconut, butterscotch, or chocolate chips. Yields 60 jumbo bake-sale cookies.

Whole wheat quick bread with buttermilk, molasses, walnuts, and raisins. No yeast needed for this hearty, slightly sweet loaf with a dense, rustic crumb.

Puccia, traditional Italian olive-studded bread rolls from Puglia made with biga starter and whole wheat flour. Crusty, airy rolls with a long rise for deep flavor.

Hawaiian grilled fish salad with a warm pineapple salsa made from crushed pineapple, golden raisins, yellow pepper, and cayenne. Light, summery, and ready in 45 minutes for six.

Multi-grain nut bread made in a bread machine with seven flours and grains, walnuts, sunflower seeds, sesame, and poppy seeds. Dense, hearty, and honey-sweetened.

Moist zucchini bread with cinnamon, nutmeg, walnuts, and raisins or dates. Makes two loaves that freeze beautifully for later.

Mock mincemeat made from green tomatoes, apples, and raisins with cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. No meat needed. Water-bath canned for shelf-stable holiday pies and baking.

Potato spice cake with mashed potatoes, cocoa, warm spices, raisins, and nuts baked in an angel cake pan. Incredibly moist crumb from the potatoes with old-fashioned chocolate spice flavor.

Eggnog bread pudding with warm rum sauce: nutmeg-spiked custard soaks crusty French bread cubes and plump raisins, finished with a buttery brown sugar rum drizzle. Holiday dessert built from pantry staples.

Applesauce Zucchini Raisin Bran Bread: a fat-free quick bread sweetened with applesauce and raisins, packed with shredded zucchini, bran, and cinnamon. Tender, moist, no oil required.