Nuts/10 recipes

This spicy harvest bread is full of plump raisins and tart apples, then topped with nuts for a delicious crunch.

Apple-Nut Coffee Cake recipe

Maple Brickle Nut Torte recipe

Vicki's Banana Nut Bread recipe

*When you buy carambola, also called star fruit, look for ones that are uniformly yellow to orange and have a subtle perfume. If they are green, they aren't ripe and won't yield a great deal of flavor. At their ripest, their flavor is an unmistakably tropical combination of apple, banana and lychee.

This is the second recipe I'll post tonight--promised it to AH earlier tonight. My mother found this recipe 35 or so years ago in a magazine and it has become a family favorite. For years she only made it at Thanksgiving until I took over the baking reigns in the family; now she makes it more often especially when my brother, Lewis, is going to be in.

Spiced Zucchini Cookies with Raisin and Nuts recipe