Brownies recipes

Butternut squash and apple bake with brown sugar, butter, and mace. A sweet, tender fall side dish for Thanksgiving or any autumn dinner.

Cocanes are old-fashioned butter cookies made with brown sugar, shaped into fingers, and baked in a hot oven. No liquid needed. Just six ingredients, mixed by hand, yielding 2 dozen crumbly, buttery bites.

Microwave baked apples stuffed with cheese, pecans, raisins, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. A Norwegian-inspired dessert ready in about 15 minutes with no oven required.

Coated baked turkey pieces topped with a rum-and-orange banana sauce. Caribbean-inspired weeknight dinner that turns simple turkey into a tropical feast.

Iced blackberry yogurt swirls seedless blackberry puree with honey, brown sugar, banana, plain yogurt, and a beaten egg white into a light frozen dessert. A no-churn frozen yogurt for hot afternoons.

Microwave Irish coffee for two: instant coffee, hot water, Irish whiskey, and brown sugar in a mug, topped with whipped cream. Ready in five minutes, no kettle required.

Brown sugar coffee cake with a buttery crumb topping and tender buttermilk crumb. One bowl, seven ingredients, and a method so simple it practically makes itself.

Almond crisp bars with rolled oats, coconut, and toasted almond pieces in a buttery brown sugar base. Six ingredients pressed into a pan, baked, and cut while warm into chewy-crisp squares.

Crispy, thin ginger snaps made the old-fashioned way by boiling molasses and water first. Brown sugar and real ginger give these cookies a deep, spicy bite. Makes 2 dozen.

Brown sugar shortbread cookies baked in a springform pan with a cinnamon sugar topping, cut into 12 tender wedges. Butter, brown sugar, flour, and warm spice in every crumbly bite.

Classic pink pickled eggs with beet juice, vinegar, brown sugar, and cloves. Sweet, tangy bar snack ready overnight.

Sweet and spicy grilled chuck steaks brushed with a salsa, ketchup, brown sugar, and Dijon mustard sauce during the last 5 minutes on the coals. A 4-ingredient glaze.

Easy bean bake brings together great northern beans, smoky bacon, brown sugar, and molasses in one pot for a sweet and savory side that bakes hands-off in the oven. Classic American baked beans done the slow way.

Poached mangoes in brown sugar and cinnamon syrup served over vanilla ice cream. A warm tropical fruit dessert that comes together in 30 minutes.

Sweet potatoes and apples layered with brown sugar and butter, then baked covered until tender and caramelized. A simple 5-ingredient fall side dish.

No-egg raisin cake with brown sugar, walnuts, cinnamon, and ginger baked low and slow. A Depression-era pantry cake that's moist, spiced, and surprisingly rich.