Recipe Sifter

Overnight yeast waffles, the classic raised breakfast batter mixed the night before. Tangy, light, and crisp at the edges thanks to a slow yeast rise instead of baking powder.

NOTE: I think paste food color works better than liquid food coloring when tinting cookie dough. It's available in specialty markets and some party stores. Be careful: A little goes a long, long way.

Homemade Slice and Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe

Buttermilk pancakes for two with optional blueberries. A small-batch breakfast recipe with fluffy, tender pancakes ready in 20 minutes. No leftovers.

Homemade fortune cookies with custom paper messages folded inside crisp golden wafers. Five ingredients, butter-egg-white batter spread thin and shaped over a glass while still hot from the oven.

Chewy oatmeal trail mix cookies loaded with chocolate chips, raisins, walnuts, and sunflower seeds. Soft centers, golden edges, and a backpack-friendly chew that holds up for days.

Old-fashioned cake doughnuts infused with reduced apple cider and warm spices. Pat the dough to half-inch thickness, cut and fry until golden, then dip in cider glaze while warm.

These are very good.I was making my Banana Bread recipe,which I put crushed pineapple in,and I had some left over.I was also making a pan of Brownies and I thought why not add the pineapple here.It is different but oh so good.

Lots of apples and nuts make a filling rich snacking cake.

Soft, cakey chocolate drop cookies made with melted unsweetened chocolate, sour cream, and walnuts, topped with a mocha frosting. Makes 36 rich, fudgy cookies.

These delicious cookies are easy to make and enjoy! Perfect with tea or coffee.

Soft, cakey chocolate drop cookies topped with a rich homemade chocolate icing. Made with real unsweetened chocolate and optional pecans, this bakery-style recipe yields 3 dozen.

Traditional Christmas stollen with candied citron, cherries, almonds, raisins, and lemon zest folded into a rich, buttery yeast dough shaped into crescents and drizzled with icing.

Six-ingredient banana bread built on self-rising flour and ripe bananas. No baking soda to measure, no creaming, no fuss. Served cold with cream cheese the way Southern grandmas always have.

Fresh pineapple nut bread folds juicy pineapple and crunchy macadamia nuts into a brown-sugar quick bread, with a cinnamon-sugar crust baked right on top. A tropical, tender loaf that tastes like a Hawaiian morning.

Don't let the combination of ingredients scare you off -- the texture created by the feta cheese combined with the smallest hint of cucumber makes this a wonderful bread. This is definitely a bread to accompany a hot meal. It's recommended with char-grilled marinated lamb chops or your favorite lamb kabobs.