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This holiday fruitcake recipe may change your mind about fruitcakes. Golden, buttery, and chock full of fruits and nuts make this delicious from the first bite to the last.

Easy one-layer chocolate cake made with melted unsweetened chocolate, applesauce, and pecans. Dense, fudgy, and finished with a simple dusting of powdered sugar.

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.

Christmas candy cane brownies with a fudgy chocolate base, hidden caramel layer, chopped nuts, and crushed peppermint candy canes on top. A festive holiday brownie with three layers of flavor.

Maple walnut squares with a buttery shortbread crust and a gooey maple syrup and maple sugar filling topped with chopped walnuts. Like pecan pie bars with a pure maple twist.

Quick apple streusel coffee cake made with Bisquick baking mix and sweetened applesauce. Topped with cinnamon brown sugar crumble in under 45 minutes.

Strawberry stuffed French toast sandwiches a thick layer of cream cheese and strawberry jam inside golden, egg-dipped bread, finished with powdered sugar and fresh strawberries. A fast, special-occasion breakfast.

Homemade Grape-Nuts cereal made from graham flour, brown sugar, buttermilk, and cinnamon. Baked, ground, and toasted into crunchy nuggets for cereal, ice cream topping, or snacking.

A fruit-packed bundt cake with bananas, crushed pineapple, applesauce, and chopped nuts spiced with cinnamon. Stir-together batter, no mixer needed. Moist, dense, and dusted with powdered sugar.

Chewy butterscotch blondies loaded with Heath toffee brickle bits and a whisper of almond extract. Buttery, brown-sugary, and dangerously easy to eat straight from the pan.

Lemon gelato made from a rich egg custard base with fresh lemon zest and juice, heavy cream, and half-and-half. Intensely citrusy Italian frozen dessert with silky texture.

Low-calorie berry bars made with a tangy buttermilk batter topped with fresh or frozen blueberries and raspberries, finished with sugar and lemon zest. No butter needed. Just 48 calories per bar.

These were easy and so cute! I made 1/2 a recipe piped with tip 12 and got 25 mushrooms.

A thick, fudgy chocolate pie packed with pecan halves and baked in a flaky crust. Sweetened condensed milk and cocoa create a dense, truffle-like filling. Serve warm or cold with a crown of whipped cream.

A classic St. Louis hotel cheesecake baked low and slow with 2 lbs of cream cheese, citrus zest, and folded egg whites for an impossibly light, creamy texture on a graham cracker crust.

Old-fashioned cut-out sugar cookies brushed with egg-white glaze and sprinkled with nuts or sugar. A versatile rolled cookie that goes thin and crisp or thick and soft to suit any occasion.