267 pantry recipes

Homemade banana doughnuts deep-fried until golden and tossed in cinnamon sugar while still warm. Made from scratch with mashed bananas and nutmeg. Ready in 30 minutes, makes a dozen.

Sweet, sour, refreshing and tasty. This is a great dessert that's easy to put together and comes out delicious. Light enough, so you don't have to worry about putting on too many calories, and still satisfies your sweet tooth.

Fresh strawberries, nutty almond, and crispy phyllo pastry make this delicious tart and it's also very light. An ideal dessert to end the meal.

Rolled baklava: walnut, sugar, and cinnamon spiraled inside crisp phyllo, sliced into bite-size pinwheels, baked, and soaked in honey syrup. An easier take on classic baklava, finished with sesame and an apricot glaze.

Traditional Slovak yeast doughnuts enriched with egg yolks, butter, and a hint of lemon rind. Light, pillowy fried dough rooted in Eastern European baking traditions. Makes 36.

Fresh apple muffins from Austin's Texas French Bread bakery, with whole wheat pastry flour, juicy chopped apples, raisins, and walnuts. A bakery-style breakfast muffin with hearty fiber and warm cinnamon.

Peach and raspberry brown betty with nutmeg bread crumb filling, topped with buttered coconut bread cubes. A rustic baked fruit dessert ready in 40 minutes.

Two savory strudel fillings: creamy mashed potato with crispy fried onions, or ricotta with scallions and egg. Classic Central European fillings ready to wrap in phyllo for baked strudel.

New Orleans beignets are pillowy square yeast doughnuts, deep-fried until golden and puffed, then buried in confectioners' sugar. The iconic French Quarter treat, best eaten piping hot.

Baklava with shatter-crisp phyllo, ground walnuts and almonds, and honey syrup steeped with lemon and orange slices. The classic Greek pastry done properly, in shimmering diamond-cut squares.

High-fiber banana oat bread made with oat bran, oat flakes, whole wheat pastry flour, ripe bananas, and honey. A wholesome quickbread sweetened naturally with no white sugar.

Mom's baklava layers buttery phyllo with a blend of ground almonds and walnuts, soaked in cinnamon-lemon honey syrup. The cool-syrup-over-hot-pastry trick keeps every flaky layer crisp.

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.

Whole wheat pecan banana bread sweetened only with maple syrup and ripe bananas, no refined sugar. A nutty, hearty breakfast loaf with a crumbly texture.

Hawaiian baklava reinvents the Greek classic with tropical macadamia nuts, pecans, and toasted coconut between buttery phyllo layers, soaked in honey-lemon syrup. Pacific island flavors meet Mediterranean technique.

Eugenie's baklava layers crisp, buttery phyllo with a spiced walnut filling and soaks it in a honey-lemon syrup, complete with a cook's secret for shatteringly crisp, never-soggy layers. A Mediterranean classic.