Recipe Sifter

Homemade sourdough bread with dried apricots, walnuts, and whole wheat flour. Makes 3 loaves with a tangy crumb and pockets of sweet fruit.

Crushed graham crackers, chopped almonds, and walnuts create a nutty, buttery cake with old-fashioned charm. Serve warm in squares dusted with powdered sugar or topped with whipped cream.

A scrumptious seafood dish that's perfect to take with you to your next or first dinner party.

Lightly sweetened applesauce cupcakes with a generous dose of nutmeg, cinnamon, and chopped walnuts. Ready in 30 minutes - serve plain or with a simple cream cheese frosting.

Black Forest chocolate fudge cake bakes the cherry-and-chocolate classic into a moist bundt, with dark sweet cherries and toasted walnuts running through a deep cocoa crumb. Prune puree keeps it fudgy and light.

Fudgy drop cookies packed with black walnuts and unsweetened chocolate, topped with a glossy homemade chocolate frosting. Old-fashioned, from-scratch baking that makes 2 dozen in under an hour.

Traditional sweet potato muffins loaded with raisins, walnuts, and butter. Rich, bakery-style muffins with cinnamon-sugar topping that bake to golden perfection.

Old-fashioned spice cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves baked with sour milk for a tender crumb. Loaded with walnuts and raisins, finished with a dusting of powdered sugar.

Fig chess tarts with a buttery lemon-scented shortbread shell, filled with brown sugar custard studded with chopped dried figs and walnuts. A Southern chess pie translated into bite-sized tart form.

A three-layer cake with two rich cocoa layers and one maple-walnut layer, all covered in homemade chocolate fudge frosting. Vermont cocoa cake is a New England showstopper.

This simply delicious apple cake is made with 100% whole wheat flour, apple sauce and olive oil. It has much less sugar than a regular cake, but still well satisfies your sweet tooth. The caramel drizzling and toasted walnuts add more shine to the cake. Nobody could resist it!

Chocolate, nut and cinnamon rolls, is there anything better than these three together? Love chocolate? Love nuts? Love cinnamon rolls? Give it a go, and you will find a huge satisfaction from these delicious rolls.

Fudgy cocoa brownies loaded with toasted marshmallows, chocolate chunks, and chopped walnuts. An overnight chill deepens the chocolate flavor for brownies with chewy centers and gooey, golden tops.

Triple chocolate muffins with melted unsweetened chocolate in the batter, plus milk and semi-sweet chocolate chips folded through. Buttermilk keeps the crumb tender; toasted walnuts are an optional crunch.

I used lightly-toasted flaked coconut instead of the nuts and baked it in a 9-inch spring form pan. YUM!

Light chocolate brownies made with cocoa powder, egg substitute and a corn oil spread instead of butter, so they bake up fudgy and cholesterol-free. A one-saucepan brownie, dusted with powdered sugar.