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Experimentation led Mary Ann Zarczynski of Franklin to create this recipe, which she described as "very rich and delicious."
Parisian hearts, a French almond cookie sandwich cut in heart shapes, filled with lemon icing and raspberry jam peeking through a cutout center. Elegant, buttery, and bakery-beautiful.
Date pecan snowball cookies rolled in powdered sugar with a buttery, crumbly shortbread base. No eggs, no leavening, just butter, flour, dates, and pecans.
Mock-chiffon chocolate cake with folded egg whites for an airy, light crumb, served with homemade chocolate whipped cream. Uses oil instead of butter for extra moisture.
Applesauce spice cake, low-fat Bundt with whipped egg whites for lift, warm cinnamon-nutmeg-clove-ginger spice, and dark corn syrup for moisture. No butter, no whole eggs, still tender and richly flavored.
Cinnamon hazelnut or almond biscotti with 2 tablespoons of vanilla and a powdered sugar finish. Twice-baked Italian cookies that stay crunchy for weeks in an airtight container.
Toronto Pie: a light sponge cake split into two layers, filled with raspberry jam, and dusted with powdered sugar. A classic Canadian tea-time treat.
Calas: traditional New Orleans rice fritters made from yeast-risen mashed rice dough with nutmeg, deep-fried golden and dusted with powdered sugar. A Creole street food with African roots dating to the 1700s.
Raspberry swirl rolls, a fruity riff on cinnamon rolls, with pillowy enriched yeast dough wrapped around a tart raspberry filling and finished with a buttery cream glaze. Bake them golden and serve warm.
Canadian butter tart squares with a buttery shortbread base and gooey brown sugar-raisin filling. All the flavor of butter tarts without rolling pastry. Cut into bars for easy sharing.
Soft banana nut bar cookies baked in a sheet pan with sour cream for extra moisture, then slathered with a tangy cream cheese frosting. Cut into bars and watch them vanish.
Fanky (faworki) are Polish deep-fried pastry diamonds made with egg yolks, sour cream, wine, and butter, dusted with powdered sugar. Thin, crispy, and addictive.
Hazelnut melting moments with ground filberts, lemon zest, and a pool of melted chocolate in the center. A delicate thumbprint cookie dusted with powdered sugar.
Baked doughnut puffs with nutmeg, chopped walnuts, and a cinnamon-sugar coating. No deep frying needed. Drop batter into mini muffin pans, bake until golden, then dip in butter and shake in spiced powdered sugar.
Velvet devil's food layer cake with coffee and cocoa for deep chocolate flavor, plus a silky coffee buttercream frosting. A bakery-style two-layer showstopper (Part 1).
Schwarzwaelder Kirschtorte is the authentic German Black Forest cake: three genoise layers soaked in kirsch syrup, filled with kirsch buttercream and sour cherries, and draped in whipped cream with chocolate curls.