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Bianco Mangiare is a layered Italian dessert with sponge cake, vanilla-cinnamon milk pudding, chocolate sprinkles, pecans, and cherries. Served cold, this elegant no-bake treat is pure old-world charm.

Rustic Southern fresh peach skillet pie baked in cast iron with a biscuit-style crust, cinnamon sugar topping, and butter. Serve warm with ice cream for a summertime showstopper.

Blitz kuchen is a classic German lightning cake with a light, egg-leavened batter topped with butter, cinnamon sugar, and chopped nuts. Quick to mix and bakes in minutes.

Halloween witches' broom sticks shape biscuit dough into twisted handles topped with fringed twig bundles, brushed with butter and Parmesan. A savory shaped snack kids can help craft for Halloween parties.

Old-fashioned rock cookies packed with raisins, chopped dates, and nuts in a spiced brown sugar dough with cinnamon and cloves. Dense, chewy, and fruit-studded, these hold up for days in a cookie tin.

Homemade muffin mix with flour, baking powder, dry milk, salt, and shortening. A six-week pantry staple that replaces store-bought Bisquick for muffins, biscuits, and pancakes.

Brownie and cookies, you can eat both of them at the same time, moist, crunchy and delicious!

Oatmeal cookies rolled in chopped nuts with a chocolate star pressed into each warm center. The classic peanut blossom cookie technique applied to oats.

Parkin is a variety of gingerbread, good warming stuff to eat out of doors in cold weather. When I was a child, it was always a firm favourite for the firework party on Bonfire Night each year. This is adapted from my mother's recipe.

Honey pumpkin cookies sweetened with honey instead of sugar. Soft, cake-style drop cookies with raisins, pecans, cinnamon, and nutmeg. No refined sugar.

Steamed Boston brown bread made with cornmeal, rye flour, whole wheat flour, molasses, and buttermilk. Cooked in coffee cans for three hours for a dense, moist, no-oven loaf.

Old-fashioned steamed fruit pudding with raisins, suet, molasses, and warm spices. A Pennsylvania-style dessert steamed for 3 hours and served with brown sugar sauce.

Raisin bran bread is a soft brown sugar yeast loaf that uses your morning cereal as the secret ingredient. Bread machine or hand-shaped, this bakes up tender with embedded raisins and a hint of bran nuttiness.

Fat-free apple oat muffins using pureed prunes as a fat substitute, egg whites instead of whole eggs, and maple syrup for sweetness. Just 90 calories each.

Crunchy caramel-coated Corn Chex mixed with toasted coconut, peanuts, milk chocolate morsels, and raisins. An addictive sweet-salty party snack mix that disappears fast.

These cookies are healthy enough to give for on the run breakfasts.