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Christmas crackers are sweet honey-wheat holiday cookies stamped with cookie cutters and sprinkled with sugar. Makes 45 crispy-edged rectangles for gifting or dipping.

Sweet poppy seed noodles toss buttered egg noodles with prepared poppy seed filling, raisins, lemon zest, and vanilla. Eastern European-style sweet pasta side or dessert that comes together in 20 minutes.

Layered cookie bars with a nutmeg-spiced graham cracker crust, chocolate chips, flaked coconut, and chopped walnuts, drizzled with marshmallow cream. Gooey, crunchy, and irresistible.

Italian fried knots dipped in honey glaze and topped with colorful non-pareils. A traditional Italian-American holiday pastry with a crispy, golden shell and sweet honey coating.

Pizzelles press a buttery vanilla dough between hot iron grids for thin, crispy Italian waffle cookies with intricate snowflake patterns. Classic Christmas and wedding cookie.

Make-ahead frozen French toast using Texas toast soaked in an egg, milk, vanilla, and nutmeg custard. Freeze, then bake from frozen for a quick hot breakfast.

Warm chocolate cake on top, gooey pudding sauce underneath creates a magical self-saucing dessert that forms two distinct layers as it bakes.

Homemade bath oil soak with milk, yogurt, eggs, butter, peach juice, and witch hazel. A moisturizing Cleopatra-style milk bath you can make from kitchen staples.

Susan's Corn Muffins: tender corn muffins enriched with sour cream and butter, studded with Mexicorn and chopped bacon. Savory-sweet, breakfast-ready, makes a dozen.

Miniature cheesecakes baked in a muffin tin with graham cracker crusts, lemon zest, and cream cheese filling. Individual portions, just six ingredients, and no water bath needed.

A yeasted bread ring wrapped around a sweet cream cheese filling, dusted with confectioner's sugar. Part cheesecake, part bread, and entirely showstopping for brunch.

Carrot wheat muffins with whole wheat flour, molasses, grated carrots, orange zest, raisins, and chopped nuts. Hearty, warmly spiced breakfast muffins with natural sweetness.

Grilled shark steak basted with a quick teriyaki-style sauce of honey, lemon juice, garlic, and sesame seeds. Firm, meaty fish that holds up beautifully on the grill.

Thick, fudgy peppermint pattie brownies with a whole layer of York-style mint candies sandwiched between cocoa batter. Makes 36 squares for parties and bake sales.

Swedish ginger cookies (pepparkakor) made with dark corn syrup, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. A spiced roll-and-cut dough that bakes thin and snappy for the holidays.

Spice muffins warmed up with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg in a tender from-scratch crumb. A pantry-staple muffin you can pull together in one bowl for breakfast, snacks, or coffee time.