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Teddy bear shaped oatmeal cookies decorated with icing faces and candy noses. A fun baking project kids love, made with brown sugar, oats, and real butter.

The 2nd place winner in the Chicago Tribune's 1996 Annual Holiday Cookie Contest, a simple brown-sugar shortbread from Sandra Petrille of Naperville, Illinois.

Get a powerful start to the day with these delicious and nutritious pancakes.

Cheesy broccoli puff casserole with Bisquick, cheddar, eggs, and butter that bakes up golden and fluffy. A simple one-dish broccoli side that practically makes itself.

Easy Boston cream pie made the no-bake way: a split yellow cake layer sandwiched with silky vanilla pudding, then crowned with a glossy chocolate-cream topping spiked with almond extract.

Pastelitos, little hand pies filled with mashed dried fruit, honey, and cinnamon in a flaky shortening crust. A traditional Latin American fruit turnover baked golden.

Pecan butter cookies are soft brown sugar drop cookies packed with chopped pecans. Buttery, caramel-kissed, and baked in 10 minutes for 2 dozen classic Southern cookies.

Homemade pop tarts with a tender egg pastry crimped around any fruit jam you like, then baked and finished with a sugar crust or icing. A from-scratch take on the toaster pastry, fully customizable.

Mixed nut biscotti bake twice for that signature dry crunch, with pumpkin pie spice and a handful of mixed chopped nuts folded into a brown-sugar dough. Coffee-shop biscotti at home.

Mandelbrodt with chocolate chips and pecans, topped with cinnamon sugar. A Jewish twice-baked cookie similar to biscotti, made with oil instead of butter. Crunchy, dunkable, and freezer-friendly.

Steamed Boston brown bread made with cornmeal, rye flour, whole wheat flour, molasses, and buttermilk. Cooked in coffee cans for three hours for a dense, moist, no-oven loaf.

Moist breakfast orange muffins use fresh orange juice, grated zest, and oil for a tender, citrusy crumb that stays soft for days. One bowl, ready in 25 minutes.

Lower-fat ricotta cheesecake with no crust, no cream cheese, and no sour cream. Light and fluffy with lemon zest and vanilla, topped with fresh strawberries.

Tiny fruit turnovers filled with a stovetop apricot-date filling and chopped nuts, wrapped in a lemon-scented cookie dough. Bite-sized pastries for holiday trays.

Spread the Christmas cheer and make a batch of these tasty snacks for your neighbors!

Monster cookies loaded with peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, M&M's, raisins and nuts. Flourless, chewy, and built for a crowd.