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Healthy oatmeal cookies with oat flour, whole wheat, honey, and pureed pineapple replacing butter and eggs. Loaded with raisins, walnuts, and coconut for a high-fiber treat.

Old fashioned oatmeal raisin cookies with chopped walnuts, dark brown sugar for chew, and toasty oats. A classic drop cookie that bakes up crisp at the edges and tender in the middle.

My slightly sweet version of a classic.

Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies - the Best recipe

Banana nut oatmeal muffins sweetened only with honey, packed with mashed ripe banana and walnuts, then crowned with a reserved walnut-oat topping for extra crunch on every cap.

Adapted this recipe from Foodnetwork magazine, I made a few changes to make it a little healthier but still taste decadently delicious.

Oatmeal banana walnut bread, a hearty banana loaf with quick oats stirred in for chew, creamed butter and brown sugar for richness, and walnuts for crunch. Moist, wholesome, and great toasted.

Billy goats are soft date and nut cookies, sometimes called "rocks" due to their shape after baking. Children love them.

Strawberry cupcakes blend frozen sweetened strawberries straight into oil-based batter with chopped walnuts and almond extract. Pink-flecked, tender muffin-style cakes.

Kahlua mudslide brownies with coffee liqueur, Irish cream, and vodka baked into fudgy chocolate brownies with walnuts. Topped with a Kahlua powdered sugar glaze.

No-bake-style cherry squares layered with cornflake crumbs, coconut, marshmallows, maraschino cherries, and walnuts, bound with sweetened condensed milk for a festive holiday treat.

Scottish oaten bread baked in the bread machine on the quick bread cycle: a hearty loaf with rolled oats, walnuts, chopped prunes, and cola for sweetness and dark color. Soft, dense crumb with tea-cake character.

Fragrant basmati rice cooked with garam masala, ginger, garlic, and chiles, then topped with toasted walnuts, cashews, dried apricots, prunes, and coconut. An Indian-inspired pilaf served with plum sauce.

Snails Sommeroise is a rustic French escargot dish: snails simmered with herbs, then browned in a savory tangle of bacon, ground walnuts, anchovy and garlic and served over a bed of wilted spinach.

Marshmallow nut loaf: a no-bake icebox loaf of graham crackers, walnuts, dates, and cream-softened marshmallows. Old-fashioned refrigerator dessert with real staying power.

A simple and delicious Christmas pudding made with dried figs, tapioca and toasted walnuts.