10,000 sugar recipes

Rumaki wraps bacon around chicken liver and water chestnut, then broils until crisp. The classic 1960s tiki-bar appetizer that deserves a comeback.

Mini brownie cups with a cream cheese pastry shell filled with melted semi-sweet chocolate and chopped walnuts. Bite-sized treats baked in mini muffin tins that combine fudgy brownie with a buttery crust.

Apple custard cake layered on a buttery lemon shortcrust, with rum-soaked raisins and tart apples under a baked vanilla custard that sets soft and creamy. A bakery-style dessert with a boozy backbone.

Mini upside-down cheesecakes with warm pineapple sauce: 4 individual muffin-tin cheesecakes flipped onto a pool of glossy pineapple sauce. Ready in 50 minutes.

Ischler cookies are an Austrian classic from Bad Ischl: ground-almond shortbread rounds sandwiched with raspberry jam and crowned with espresso-spiked chocolate icing. Spa-town pastry royalty.

Five-ingredient herb butter sauce with rosemary, tarragon, and lemon that doubles as a grilling baste and warm dipping sauce for shrimp, crab, lobster, and crawfish.

Ultra chocolate cheesecake with cocoa in both the mocha cookie crust and the creamy sour cream filling. Double the chocolate, intensely rich, and baked until silky smooth for serious chocolate lovers.

Chocolate cookies shaped like peanuts with a sweet peanut butter filling hidden inside. A cocoa dough pinched into peanut shapes and baked low, then rolled in sugar.

A three-layer chocolate cake with vanilla custard filling and rich chocolate buttercream frosting. Made from scratch with real unsweetened chocolate and whipped egg whites for a light crumb.

Low-fat apricot cardamom bars with apricot nectar, finely snipped dried apricots, and applesauce in the batter, finished with an apricot icing drizzle. Fragrant and easy.

Intensely moist chocolate layer cake with boiling water in the batter, topped with a rich cocoa buttercream frosting flavored with brandy and vanilla.

Persian-style steamed basmati rice with a golden, crispy tahdig crust on the bottom. Just three ingredients, an overnight soak, and patience create the fluffiest rice you've ever had.

Mincemeat sandwiches with sweetened cooked mincemeat, cream cheese, and ground nuts piled between slices of bread. Retro holiday tea sandwich that uses up leftover mincemeat from Christmas baking.

Lebanese stuffed grape leaves filled with spiced lamb and rice seasoned with allspice and cinnamon, rolled tight and simmered over lemon slices. A traditional Middle Eastern appetizer.

Golden bubble ring (monkey bread) made from homemade yeast dough balls rolled in butter, cinnamon sugar, and optional nuts, baked in a tube pan until golden and pull-apart tender.

Knockoff Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookies built on the famous internet legend recipe: blender-pulverized oatmeal for tender chew, two kinds of chocolate, and a generous load of toasted walnuts or pecans.