Recipe Sifter

Tangerine your chicken with this succulent recipe that calls for orange juice, cinnamon and tangerine peel.

Gluten-free monkey bread made in a bread machine, then shaped into cinnamon sugar balls. Rice flour and xanthan gum create a tender pull-apart loaf studded with nuts and raisins.

Persimmon walnut coconut cookies fold ripe persimmon pulp into a soft, cake-like dough with toasted walnuts, sweet coconut, cinnamon, and allspice. A late-fall cookie when persimmons hit the markets.

Low-fat cranberry orange bran muffins with cinnamon and real cranberry sauce. Light, fiber-rich, and endlessly adaptable with banana-date, apple-raisin, and zucchini variations.

Moustokouloura (Greek wine must cookies) shaped into oval wreaths with olive oil, petimezi, honey, cinnamon, cloves, and orange. A traditional vegan Greek cookie with a crunchy, spiced bite.

Carrots and pineapple make these moist yet delicious muffins that are perfect for breakfast or snack.

Sour cream spice cake with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, raisins, and chopped walnuts. A 13x9 sheet cake with tender, tangy crumb and warm fall flavors.

A lightly spiced breakfast cake made with applesauce and bran for natural moisture, studded with raisins and nuts for texture.

Tender scones packed with oat bran cereal and chopped fresh apples, brushed with butter and cinnamon. These wholesome wedges bake up golden in under 20 minutes for quick breakfasts.

These delicious and melted in your mouth cookies don't last long.

A traditional European-style fruit cake -- Although fruitcakes have a bad reputation, this one is *excellent*.

Moist quick bread loaded with grated fresh apples and crunchy pecans, topped with cinnamon sugar before baking. Serve warm from the oven or at room temperature for afternoon tea.

Moist spiced zucchini cake with crushed pineapple, walnuts, currants, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Topped with an almond-lemon cream cheese frosting. A garden-to-dessert stunner.

Pineapple upside-down cupcakes with a brown sugar-cinnamon topping, crushed pineapple, and maraschino cherry centers. Light cake flour batter with whipped egg whites for extra lift.

Homemade fig newtons: a tender brown sugar and sour cream cookie dough wrapped around real homemade fig jam, baked in logs and sliced into soft bars. So much better than the boxed kind.

German apple kuchen with a buttery crumb topping that shatters under your fork. Sweet-tart apple slices nestle into tender cake, all crowned with cinnamon-spiced streusel.