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Winner of the 1991 Michigan Chocolate Cake Contest Created by Linda Theil

Crazy cake mixed right in the baking pan with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Cocoa, vinegar, and oil create a surprisingly moist chocolate cake from Depression-era ingenuity.

Homemade Cracker Jack-style caramel popcorn with peanuts, brown sugar, butter, and corn syrup. A crunchy, sweet snack that comes together in just 15 minutes.

Whole wheat muffins with sour milk, raisins, and minimal sugar. A hearty, no-sift recipe with a nutty wheat flavor and tender crumb, baked at high heat for a domed top.

Irish wheaten bread made with whole wheat flour, buttermilk, nutmeg, and orange zest. A no-yeast soda bread loaf with a tender crumb that comes together in minutes.

Flaky buttermilk biscuits with fresh parsley, chives, and oregano. Cold butter cut into flour creates tall, layered biscuits with an herb-flecked crumb.

Homemade butter toffee with walnuts and chocolate topping. Cooked to hard crack stage with baking soda for a light, snappy texture, then topped with melted chocolate and pecans.

Lebkuchen German Christmas cookies blend honey, molasses, cardamom, and clove into a dense spiced dough rolled and cut into shapes. Family tradition, ages and keeps for months.

Bath cookies made with sea salt, baking soda, cornstarch, and essential oils. Fizzy, skin-softening bath treats shaped like cookies. NOT for eating, for bathing only.

Freezer-friendly sour cream drop cookies with cardamom that bake straight from frozen. Make the dough ahead, freeze for up to 6 months, and bake fresh warm cookies whenever the craving hits.

Omie's apple torte loaded with chopped apples and nuts in a buttery cinnamon batter. A dense, rustic German-style apple cake that's more fruit than cake in every bite.

Bread machine quick bread packed with dried fruit, nuts, and whole grains. Just load the ingredients and press start for a wholesome loaf studded with raisins, cranberries, blueberries, walnuts, and pecans.

Sassy bars are soft applesauce raisin bars with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a powdered sugar glaze. No eggs needed, baked in a jelly roll pan for easy big-batch baking.

Slow cooker apple cake bakes in a coffee can with chopped Golden Delicious apples, walnuts, and nutmeg. No oven needed. Dense, moist, and loaded with fruit in every slice.

Heath bar cookies loaded with frozen toffee bar chunks and nuts in a slice-and-bake butter cookie dough. Crispy edges, buttery crumb, and pockets of crunchy chocolate-covered toffee in every bite.

Homemade funnel cake with a simple batter of flour, egg, and milk fried golden in swirling patterns and dusted with powdered sugar. County fair flavor at home.