Recipe Sifter

Moist chocolate zucchini cake packed with wheat germ, cocoa, warm spices, and semi-sweet chocolate chunks. The sneakiest way to use up garden zucchini in a rich bundt cake.

Whole grain carrot muffins sweetened with honey and molasses, packed with bran, raisins, and pureed fresh carrots. High-fiber breakfast muffins made in a food processor.

A fragrant bread machine loaf made with whole wheat flour, applesauce, plump raisins, and cinnamon. Just load, press start, and let the machine do the work.

Upside-down nectarine muffins with caramelized brown sugar tops, yogurt-tender crumb, and warm cinnamon spice. A lighter brunch treat that flips out beautifully every time.

Pennsylvania Dutch applesauce cake (Ob'l Dunkes Kucka) is a one-bowl spice cake with raisins, brown sugar, and three warm spices. A heritage recipe with no eggs and no milk.

Holiday gingerbread cutout cookies made with molasses, brown sugar, and warm spices. Dough chills for 1 hour, rolls to perfect thickness, then cuts into festive shapes ready for decorating.

Love these applesauce pancakes. Moist and delicious. Serve them with maple syrup and fresh berries. Yum!

Chewy ginger molasses cookies with crackly, sugar-dusted tops and a warm hit of ginger and cinnamon. Brown sugar and molasses keep them soft in the center with crisp, sparkly edges.

Crispy old fashioned ginger snaps made with whole wheat flour, molasses, cinnamon, and cloves. These spiced cookies bake up flat and crackled in just 8 minutes with a warm, snappy bite.

Chock full of pecans and well spiced, perfect snack for a cooler Autumn day.

Pumpkin bread loaded with semisweet chocolate chips, warm cinnamon, and nutmeg. A brown-sugar dusting in the pans bakes into a sweet, slightly crisp crust around a moist, tender crumb. The holiday quick bread that vanishes fast.

Pumpkin pie sweetened with honey and molasses, lightened with whipped cream folded into the custard, in a buttery short pastry crust. A holiday classic with a silkier-than-usual filling.

Double apple muffins use both apple juice and chopped fresh apple in a brown-sugar batter, then finish with cinnamon sugar tops. Tender, fruit-loaded breakfast muffins ready in 35 minutes.

Bohemian apple waffles with chopped fresh apples folded into a cinnamon-spiced batter and lifted by whipped egg whites. Crisp on the outside, cloud-tender inside, served with maple syrup.

Alice's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, oats, chocolate chips, and chopped pecans. Soft, spice-warmed cookies with crisp edges and chewy centers.

An easy to make, simple recipe. Sweet and delicious.