Dessert, Raisin Recipes

Healthier apple pie packed with granola and raisins for texture, using less sugar than traditional recipes. Tart apples get spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla. Optional lattice top.

Classic spice cake made with hot applesauce, raisins, and chopped nuts. Warm spices like cinnamon and cloves perfume every slice. Triple-sifted cake flour creates an impossibly tender crumb.

Apple squares fold chopped fresh apples, walnuts, and raisins into a cinnamon-spiced one-bowl batter mixed by hand and baked into a 13x9 sheet. No mixer, no fuss.

Apple streusel squares with a buttery shortbread crust, cinnamon-raisin sauteed apples, and a pecan-brown sugar crumble topping. Three layers of fall flavor in every bar.

Applesauce oatmeal raisin cookies use applesauce in place of half the fat for a chewier, lower-fat cookie. A soft-baked oatmeal raisin with brown sugar warmth and plump fruit.

Traditional British Christmas plum pudding: a dense steamed pudding rich with suet, dried fruit, candied orange, and brandy. Made weeks ahead to mellow, then reheated and flamed for the holiday table.

Beverwyks are old Dutch spiced cookies with cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and chopped raisins rolled and cut into shapes. A traditional holiday cookie from New York's Dutch heritage.

Big white soft sugar cookies with buttermilk, nutmeg, and raisins that stay pale, pillowy, and cakelike. An overnight-chilled batter baked just 5 minutes for the softest cookie you'll ever make.

Moist and delicious cake is paired with cream cheese glaze that doubles the yumminess of the cake and the joy of eating.

Carrot pecan cookies with cardamom, cinnamon, grated carrots, raisins, and chopped pecans baked into a soft, spiced drop cookie. Like carrot cake in cookie form.

Classic butter-rich oatmeal cookie dough rolls that freeze for 6 months, ready to slice and bake into chewy raisin nut cookies any time.

Classic filled cookies sandwich a sticky raisin filling between two rounds of tender lard-based dough. The old-fashioned raisin cookie your grandmother used to bake every Sunday.

Classic fruitcake loaded with dates, pecans, walnuts, and golden raisins. Moist tender crumb with vanilla and lemon extract, baked in a tube pan for beautiful slices.

Old-fashioned Christmas fruit cake with boiled raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. No eggs or butter needed, just cold water and shortening for a dense, spiced holiday cake.

Old-fashioned sour cream crumb cake with cinnamon, raisins, and a buttery crumb topping. A tender loaf-pan cake with a crumbly, streusel-like crust baked right on top.

Crunchy almond apple pie layers an apricot-glazed crust with a buttery almond frangipane filling, fresh apple slices, and a crisp sliced-almond meringue topping. Like a Bakewell tart that met an apple pie.