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Lemon pucker-up slice-and-bake cookies with fresh lemon zest and juice, a hint of nutmeg, and a crisp, buttery edge. Make the dough ahead and freeze for baking anytime.

Oat and raisin bar cookies with brown sugar, cinnamon, and rolled oats baked in a sheet pan. A mix-and-spread health cookie with eight ingredients and zero fuss.

Chocolate nut-filled cookies with a chocolate syrup and pecan filling sandwiched between two rolled dough circles. A window-topped sandwich cookie sealed with fork tines.

Mocha zucchini bread with cocoa powder and instant coffee folded into a moist quick bread batter with grated zucchini. A chocolate-coffee twist on classic zucchini bread.

Crisp oatmeal treasures are slice-and-bake icebox cookies loaded with rolled oats and chopped nuts. Chill the dough log overnight, slice thin, and bake for shatteringly crisp cookies.

Miniature French breakfast puffs are warm nutmeg-scented muffins dipped in melted butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar. The donut-muffin hybrid that disappears off brunch trays first.

Holiday molasses crinkles are spiced sugar-coated cookies with cracked, snowy tops. The water-droplet trick guarantees that signature crinkled surface every time. Soft inside, slightly crisp at the edges.

French breakfast muffins are sweet nutmeg-scented puffs rolled in melted butter and cinnamon-sugar straight from the oven. Sometimes called doughnut muffins for their fairground-pastry vibe.

No-bake Reese's-style peanut butter bars with a buttery graham cracker crumb base and a melted chocolate chip top. Tastes like a giant peanut butter cup. Cuts into 48 squares for a crowd.

Maple-frosted golden cake layers a tender butter-yellow sponge under a fluffy boiled maple frosting made with pure maple syrup and beaten egg whites. Old-fashioned bakery style.

Chicken, pea, and rice casserole: flour-dredged browned chicken breast over rice and frozen peas with basil and sliced onions. A nostalgic one-dish dinner for ten.

Pesto biscuits with green basil flecks and fluffy buttermilk crumb, baked from a quick pantry-friendly recipe using powdered milk. A herbal twist on the classic American biscuit.

Go-to brown sugar slice and bake cookies: a freezer-friendly cookie log that slices straight from frozen onto the baking sheet. Tender, caramel-sweet, and ready to bake any time you need cookies fast.

Santa Claus cookies are soft drop cookies with bright lemon zest, baked then frosted and decorated into jolly Santa faces. A Christmas cookie tray classic for kids.

Easy applesauce nut bread is a 10-ingredient quickbread with chunky walnuts, cinnamon, and a single can of applesauce for moisture. One bowl, one loaf pan, one hour in the oven.

Raisin cookies use a boiled-water cooking method that plumps the raisins into the sweet brown sugar syrup before baking. No eggs, no butter required. Frugal Depression-era cookie that still satisfies.