Recipe Sifter

A few healthy twists make these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies still taste heavenly delicious, but much better for you.

Fresh apple muffins from Austin's Texas French Bread bakery, with whole wheat pastry flour, juicy chopped apples, raisins, and walnuts. A bakery-style breakfast muffin with hearty fiber and warm cinnamon.

Super moist carrot cake loaded with shredded carrots, crushed pineapple, and walnuts, topped with orange-zested cream cheese frosting. Bakes in a 9x13 pan or bundt for that signature dense, tender crumb.

Enjoy these seriously chocolaty and mouth-watering cookies without feeling guilty.

Chicken royale wraps pounded chicken breasts around walnut-crusted Boursin and spinach, then bakes them in a raspberry-wine reduction. An impressive stuffed chicken dinner that comes together in 40 minutes.

Henzi's seed bread loaded with sunflower, poppy, and caraway seeds, walnuts, raisins, and three flours (bread, whole wheat, rye). A nutty, fiber-rich loaf for the bread machine that toasts up gorgeous.

Enjoy this delicious coffee cake with your favorite coffee or tea in a beautiful afternoon.

French banana cake using white cake mix, very ripe mashed bananas, and chopped walnuts. A semi-homemade banana cake that improves after 24 hours chilled.

Apple raisin walnut quick bread: diced apples, plump raisins and toasted walnuts in a buttermilk batter, topped with cinnamon sugar streusel. Makes two loaves perfect for fall gifting.

Festive cranberry, cherry, and walnut marmalade simmered with port wine, cinnamon, and nutmeg. A gorgeous holiday spread for cheese boards, turkey, or gifting in jars.

This chewy, fruity, nutty bread is delicious on its own or toasted and slathered with butter.

Bite-sized cream cheese pastry cups filled with walnuts, chocolate, and egg custard, served with rum-spiked whipped cream. These elegant tassies are a holiday cookie tray must-have.

Old-fashioned sausage and apple stuffing with walnuts, sage, thyme, and toasted bread cubes. A classic Thanksgiving turkey stuffing with McIntosh apples and pork sausage.

Moist and flavorful Red Lion Inn pumpkin bread with walnuts and raisins. Easy recipe for loaves or muffins, perfect for fall baking. Ready in under 90 minutes!

Frying pan cookies cook chopped dates, eggs, butter, and sugar into a sticky caramel, then fold in crisp rice cereal and walnuts before rolling into balls coated in coconut or powdered sugar. A no-bake retro cookie with serious chew.

Chewy oat bran raisin cookies made with egg whites instead of whole eggs and vegetable oil instead of butter. A lighter oatmeal cookie with nuts and fiber.