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A decadent coffee cake made with delicious strawberries and slivered almonds.

Friendship cake using yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, brandied starter fruit, raisins, and pecans baked in a Bundt pan. The shortcut version of the gifted-starter holiday cake.

Whole red snapper stuffed with herbed breadcrumbs, Italian cheese, and fresh mint, then baked under a blanket of tomatoes and lemon slices. A rustic Italian seafood main course ready in about an hour.

Homemade baking powder made from baking soda, cream of tartar, and cornstarch. Three ingredients, aluminum-free, and stores for months in a sealed container.

Herman coffee cake bakes a 10-day fed sourdough-style starter into a tender cinnamon-raisin coffee cake. The classic friendship cake passed jar-by-jar between neighbors.

Pumpkin apricot cake roll, a tender spiced pumpkin sponge rolled around an apricot filling. A stunning autumn dessert that looks harder than it is.

Classic Boston baked beans slow-cooked for 8 hours with molasses, brown sugar, dry mustard, and a kick of cayenne. Crusty on top, creamy underneath. The real deal.

Apple-nut cinnamon streusel cake is a sour cream coffee cake folded with chopped apples and toasted sunflower seeds, finished with a cinnamon brown sugar streusel topping. Brunch and breakfast worthy.

Glace cherries, ground almonds and simple directions make this an easy recipe to impress your guests.

Chocolate tofu cake that bakes up silky like cheesecake but lighter, blending firm tofu with ricotta, cream cheese and cocoa, spiked with Irish cream and coffee liqueur. A water bath keeps it custardy smooth.

Ribbon refrigerator cake with layers of graham crackers and a pineapple-walnut filling set with gelatin. A vintage no-bake icebox dessert topped with whipped cream.

Moravian Scotch cakes, a 4-ingredient Pennsylvania Dutch shortbread cookie with caraway seeds, topped with boiled icing and colored sugar. A crisp, buttery heritage recipe.

Flourless fudgy chocolate cake built from bittersweet chocolate, butter, strong coffee, and eggs. A naturally gluten-free dessert with a dense, almost truffle-like texture that solidifies in the fridge.

Double peanut butter cake with creamy PB baked into the batter and chunky peanut butter frosting on top. A single-layer sheet cake built for peanut butter lovers.

Moist carrot cake baked in a tube pan with walnuts and cinnamon, finished with a glossy cooked orange glaze instead of the usual cream cheese frosting.

From McCall's Great American recipe card collection, Our Italian Heritage 5e, a baked meatball lasagna.