Brownies recipes

Sour cream coffee cake with a brown sugar, cinnamon, and nut streusel swirled through the center and on top. A classic tube pan breakfast cake that's tender and rich.

Deep plum pie with halved plums baked under overlapping pastry rounds, sweetened with brown and white sugar, warmed with cloves or cardamom and thickened with quick tapioca.

Country apple pie layers six cups of fresh apples with brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a flaky double crust, baked in two stages for a golden top and tender filling. The American classic done right.

Idiot's Delight: a layered no-fuss dessert with pecan shortbread crust, cream cheese filling, butter pecan pudding, whipped topping, and praline pecans. Potluck royalty.

Ham balls with Hawaiian Punch sauce: ground ham and pork meatballs in a sweet-tangy sauce built on the nostalgic red fruit punch, mustard, and dark corn syrup. Retro potluck gold.

Homemade mincemeat with suet, currants, raisins, grated apples, candied citron, and warm spices. A meatless filling for pies and tarts that freezes beautifully or cans for long-term storage.

Tomato onion pork chops simmered in a sweet-tangy tomato soup sauce with onions, brown sugar, basil, and Worcestershire. The classic six-ingredient skillet dinner that turns budget pork chops into something craveable.

Moist spice cake loaded with four cups of chopped apples, raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg, baked in a sugar-dusted pan until the fruit turns tender and sweet.

Gingerbread house dough built for construction: a firm, spiced molasses dough that bakes up sturdy and snappy, not soft, so your walls and roof hold their shape. Spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.

Maple pecan sticky buns bake an oat-enriched dough over a gooey maple-pecan syrup that turns into a glossy topping when inverted. Filled with cinnamon, raisins and pecans, they're a weekend brunch treat.

Papaya custard sautees fresh papaya with butter, brown sugar, and brandy, then layers it under a rich egg custard with crumbled butter cookies. Baked until silky and set.

Maple-apple oatmeal cookies with real maple syrup, fresh apples, applesauce, currants, and a crunchy oat-brown sugar topping. Soft, cakey fall cookies baked low and slow.

Fresh tomato cake with dark brown sugar, dates, raisins, nuts, and nutmeg topped with cream cheese frosting. A Southern heritage cake that uses ripe tomatoes for incredible moisture.

Grilled ham steaks with a brown sugar and whiskey pan sauce. Butter-brushed, grilled until charred, and served with a quick onion roux sauce spiked with whiskey.

A Boston Market copycat butternut squash whipped with brown sugar, honey, butter, ginger, and pumpkin pie spice until silky smooth. Roasted until caramelized, then mashed into the coziest fall side dish.

Maple praline biscotti loaded with toasted pecans, flavored with maple extract, and dipped in a maple powdered sugar glaze. Twice-baked for a crispy snap.