81 walnut oil recipes

Twice-baked chocolate biscotti loaded with Dutch-process cocoa and toasted hazelnuts or walnuts. Crisp, sturdy, and dunkable, with a deep cocoa flavor and no butter or oil. The classic Italian coffee cookie, made dark.

Lighter berry coffee cake made with egg whites, applesauce, and canola oil instead of whole eggs and butter. Fresh raspberries and blueberries with a crunchy crumb topping. Adaptable for dairy-free diets.

Eugenie's baklava layers crisp, buttery phyllo with a spiced walnut filling and soaks it in a honey-lemon syrup, complete with a cook's secret for shatteringly crisp, never-soggy layers. A Mediterranean classic.

Kolachki: tender, flaky Eastern European cream cheese cookies wrapped around a sweet ground walnut filling and rolled in sugar. A buttery, melt-in-your-mouth holiday tradition.

Green tomato bread with pureed green tomatoes, plumped raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and chopped nuts baked into a spiced quick bread. The best way to use up end-of-season unripe tomatoes.

Chocolate-coconut layer cake with tender buttermilk chocolate layers, flaked coconut folded through, and a rich walnut-chocolate filling between whipped cream layers.

Russian torte: a yeast-leavened pastry layered with cinnamon-walnut filling and apricot preserves, then crowned with meringue and sugared nuts. The Old World dessert that disappears at every gathering.

Moist date cake topped with brown sugar, pecans, and chocolate chips that melt into a crunchy, fudgy self-frosting as it bakes. One pan, no separate frosting needed.

Slow cooker chocolate pudding cake with cocoa, chocolate syrup, and chopped pecans. The batter steams into a fudgy, gooey cake with its own chocolate sauce on the bottom. Served warm with cream.

Homemade bear claw pastries made from a buttery yeasted dough wrapped around a cherry, date, raisin, and walnut filling. This classic bakery recipe yields 16 to 20 golden, flaky pastries with a sweet almond glaze.

Budapest tea bread bundt cake with a swirled cinnamon, cocoa, raisin, and walnut filling. A Hungarian-inspired sour cream coffee cake for tea time or brunch.

A three-layer creamy coconut cake with whipped cream and walnut filling, draped in cream cheese frosting and showered in shredded coconut. The Sunday dinner showstopper.

Black Forest rugalach pastries with a cream cheese dough wrapped around boozy cherry, dark chocolate and walnut filling. The Jewish bakery classic given a chocolate-cherry overhaul straight out of the German cake playbook.

Triple chocolate mocha cookies layer melted semisweet chocolate, cocoa powder, and chocolate chips with a hit of espresso for deep, fudgy chocolate intensity. Optional toasted pecans add crunch.

A vegetable-loaded Italian minestrone with eggplant, beans, spinach, cabbage, and pasta, finished with a swirl of homemade pesto alla Genovese. Rustic, hearty, and full of garden-fresh flavor.

Hearty Italian minestrone packed with beans, eggplant, zucchini, spinach, cabbage, and pasta, topped with a bright homemade basil pesto. A one-pot vegetable soup that eats like a meal.