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Quick brownies made with biscuit baking mix, cocoa powder, brown sugar, and walnuts. Six ingredients, one bowl, and 35 minutes from start to cut squares.

Traditional Sicilian fig cookies stuffed with ground figs, dates, raisins, walnuts, and orange, then iced and topped with colored sugar. Makes 10 dozen for the holiday cookie tray.

Russian tea cakes with a buttery shortbread base, a thumbprint of jam or chopped walnuts, and a snowfall of powdered sugar. Holiday cookie tin classic.

Mashed banana and chopped apples baked into a tender, cinnamon-spiced quick bread with sour cream for richness and walnuts for crunch. One loaf that won't last long on the counter.

A spiced carrot cake made ultra-moist with applesauce, packed with shredded carrots, golden raisins, and walnuts. Bake it in a tube pan or 9x13 for a crowd-pleasing cake that keeps for days.

Golden brown coffee cake is a buttermilk bundt with a brown sugar and walnut crumb layer running through the middle and crowning the top. Tender crumb, caramel notes, breakfast-table classic.

Low-fat carrot fig cake that replaces oil and butter with pureed dried figs for moisture. Loaded with grated carrots, crushed pineapple, and raisins, drizzled with a simple pineapple juice glaze.

Soft maple walnut oatmeal cookies with brown sugar and cinnamon, topped with maple-flavored frosting and a walnut half. Chewy, sweet, and warmly spiced.

Pears stuffed with creamy Gorgonzola and butter, pressed back together and rolled in crushed walnuts. An elegant no-cook appetizer or cheese course with just 5 ingredients.

Fudgy sheet pan brownies made with unsweetened chocolate, sour cream, and walnuts, then slathered with a glossy chocolate icing while still warm. Big batch, big flavor, gone fast.

Carrot muffins with hidden cream cheese and walnut centers, sweetened with raisins and brightened with orange juice. A lighter breakfast bake with cheesecake-like surprise.

Make oatmeal feel special and try this recipe that makes scrumptious cookies you won't want to put down.

The bread is so moist. It will melt in your mouth. Enjoyable!

Classic oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips or nuts as desired.

Chocolate four-nut biscotti loaded with walnuts, pecans, cashews, and almonds, plus mini chocolate chips. Twice-baked Italian cookies, optional white chocolate dip.

A delicious recipe uses up some of your troublesome zucchinis and makes you take a second look at these summer produce.