Recipe Sifter

Moist carrot walnut quick bread spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Loaded with grated carrots, chopped walnuts, and raisins for a warmly spiced loaf.

A three-layer Christmas cream cake with coconut and walnuts in a buttermilk batter, frosted with cream cheese icing studded with chopped maraschino cherries. Southern holiday baking at its prettiest.

Christopsomo: a traditional Greek Christmas bread with semolina, citrus zest from oranges and tangerines, currants, golden raisins, and a warming blend of cinnamon, anise, coriander, and cloves.

I have finally found it! Oh thank neptune, the perfect chocolate cake. It is fluffy, moist, deeply chocolatey, and the frosting is smooth and creamy as it should be. You will make a lot of new friends with this recipe.

Chocolate almond cut-out cookies made with sweetened condensed milk for a soft, fudgy texture. Studded with finely chopped almonds, rolled thin, and optionally drizzled with chocolate glaze. Makes 6 dozen.

Sweet corn kernels stud tender drop biscuits with a kick of red pepper and honey. Quick buttermilk biscuits with cornmeal texture that pair perfectly with chili or BBQ.

Very nice dessert, I make these biscuits very often, all my kids love them, my husabnd even love them too.

Double anise almond biscotti with anise extract, ground star anise, and slivered almonds in a twice-baked Italian cookie. Crisp enough to dunk in espresso or vin santo.

Dr. Pepper cake is a Texas-born sheet cake using the soda for moisture and faint cherry-cola notes. Topped with warm Dr. Pepper cocoa frosting poured over the hot cake.

Drunken crawfish pie tucks two pounds of crawfish tails into a buttery brandy-spiked cream sauce with the Cajun holy trinity, sealed inside a double crust and baked golden. A Louisiana classic that turns brunch or supper into an event.

Fresh grated carrots, toasted walnuts, coconut, and crushed pineapple pack this cinnamon-spiced bundt cake. Cream cheese icing and grated carrot garnish finish it off.

Cream cheese and cottage cheese cheesecake on a pecan graham cracker crust, topped with a homemade blueberry glaze. Slow-cooled in the oven for a crack-free finish.

Classic French rabbit stew (lapin sautté): disjointed rabbit browned in butter, simmered in white wine and broth, then finished with bacon, pearl onions, and mushrooms.

Old-fashioned fruit-filled cookies with a soft sour cream dough and a homemade date-raisin filling. Sandwich-style cookies with a tender crumb and sweet, jammy center.

Fudgy chocolate cookie bonbons wrapped around Hershey's kisses (or caramel, Reese's, peanut butter, or mint centers) and drizzled with white chocolate. A classic Pillsbury bake-off cookie with surprise centers.

Have some fun when it comes to baking with these scrumptious cookies your kids will love!