Recipe Sifter

Fudge sweetarts are miniature tarts with buttery pastry shells filled with rich semi-sweet chocolate fudge and topped with a pecan half. Bite-sized, elegant, and irresistible.

Lemon-Cheese Babka, an Eastern European yeast bread with a tangy cream cheese and cottage cheese filling, plump raisins and cinnamon-nut crumb on top. A bright, citrusy twist on the classic holiday sweet bread.

Lemon poppyseed spritz cookies are pressed into star and swirl shapes, baked tender, then iced with a pale lemon glaze and finished with a poppyseed sprinkle.

Maple apple spice cake with pure maple syrup, chopped apples, and cinnamon topped with cream cheese frosting. A moist, nutty fall cake baked in a 9-inch square pan.

Soft oatmeal cookies loaded with raisins and chopped nuts, warm with cinnamon and allspice. Old-school drop cookies with chewy centers and crisp golden edges.

Cinnamon coffee yeast cake baked in a ring mold with butter-dipped dough rounds coated in cinnamon sugar. A pull-apart monkey bread style breakfast with soft, enriched yeast dough.

Pearls and chocolate cookies are chewy dark chocolate drop cookies loaded with white chocolate chips (the pearls). A reverse-palette chocolate chip cookie, ready in 20 minutes.

Snickers chocolate cake made by melting candy bars straight into the batter. Buttermilk crumb with caramel, peanut, and nougat ribbons in every slice.

Chocolate walnut filled cake bakes a cocoa tube cake with a hidden ring of walnut filling running through the middle. Sugar-replacement-friendly tube pan dessert sweetened with fructose for low-sugar baking.

Moist spiced apple scones with concentrated dried apple chunks, applesauce for tenderness, and triple warm spice. A lower-fat scone with a crackly cinnamon-sugar top.

Pan de jamon is the Venezuelan Christmas bread: a soft, butter-rich dough rolled around ham, smoked bacon, olives, and raisins, then baked into a golden spiral loaf.

Kolachki: tender, flaky Eastern European cream cheese cookies wrapped around a sweet ground walnut filling and rolled in sugar. A buttery, melt-in-your-mouth holiday tradition.

Scottish hot cross buns with currants, candied citron, allspice, nutmeg, and cinnamon, finished with a sweet milk glaze. Traditional Easter baking with a Scottish twist on the classic.

Twice-baked Italian biscotti packed with chopped nuts, butter, and vanilla. A dunk-ready coffee cookie with a hard, crunchy snap and rich vanilla-nut flavor.

Golden oatmeal muffins: quick, one-bowl breakfast muffins with rolled oats, flour, milk, and egg. A hearty, lightly sweet morning bake ready in under 40 minutes from pantry staples.

Soft persimmon cookies spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves, loaded with walnuts and raisins. A nostalgic fall baking recipe that puts ripe persimmon pulp to its best use.