Recipe Sifter

Spiced cherry orange jam with sliced oranges, dark sweet cherries, and a warm cinnamon-clove-allspice infusion. A small-batch preserve for toast, cheese boards, and gift jars.

Cocoa bundt cake with chocolate glaze: a one-bowl buttermilk batter that turns out tall, tender, and deeply chocolatey thanks to a half cup of cocoa and a quick double-speed beat.

Penny's apple-date scones with chewy oats, sweet sticky dates, fresh apple, and warm cinnamon. A cut-but-don't-separate baking method gives soft middles and crackly sugar tops.

Green tomato jam: tart-sweet preserve made with unripe tomatoes, lemon, sugar, and water. Old-fashioned garden-rescue jam that uses up the last of the season's tomatoes.

Hawaiian baklava reinvents the Greek classic with tropical macadamia nuts, pecans, and toasted coconut between buttery phyllo layers, soaked in honey-lemon syrup. Pacific island flavors meet Mediterranean technique.

Mango upside down cake: ripe mango slices over brown-sugar caramel under a tender vanilla cake. The tropical answer to pineapple upside-down cake.

These ribs were the most delicious Chinese ribs ever. So much more meaty, juicy and tender than Chinese take-out. Give it a go, and you will be pleased.

Make these easy and tasty German style apple pancakes for breakfast, everyone will be woken up by the delicious aroma.

Christmas cookies are always related with buttery, flakey, sweet and delicious... It's hard to stop having these yummy treats, the craving for cookies is waving hand as Christmas is coming along.

Homemade Oreo sandwich cookies with crispy fudge cake mix wafers and a velvety cream filling. Just 3 ingredients for the cookies and 4 for the filling. A fun baking project the whole family will love.

I was so glad to find this recipe, as I had one like this before. WONDERFUL! There is the "sweet/tart" thing going on with the cranberries and sugar...YUM!

This super moist carrot cake was absolutely delicious and much much lower-fat than a regular carrot cake, thanks to applesauce and yogurt instead of butter and cream cheese. I used whole wheat pastry flour to make it even more nutrition dense. I will be making this low-fat carrot cake again for sure.

Quick and easy breakfast, and also very healthy and tasty.

New York crumb buns with rich enriched dough and a thick almond paste cinnamon crumb topping. The classic deli pastry from old-school Brooklyn and Queens bakeries.

Old-fashioned buttermilk pie with a creamy, tangy custard filling and a candy-crackle top. The Southern dessert that turns six pantry ingredients into a slice of church-supper history.

Ukrainian cheesecake made with sieved cottage cheese, lemon zest and folded egg whites for a light, custardy crumb that lives somewhere between a New York cheesecake and a souffle. Old-world Eastern European baking.