1,407 walnut cake recipes

Sweet popcorn macaroons with chopped popped popcorn, walnuts, and meringue. Crisp, gluten-free, naturally low-fat 5-ingredient cookies, makes 2 dozen.

Butterscotch chocolate chunk cookies: chewy brown-sugar cookies loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chunks. The butterscotch flavor comes from both light and dark brown sugar, no chips required.

Apple pie flipped upside down so the brown sugar and walnuts melt into a sticky praline-style topping over a flaky double crust. Inverted onto a platter for the reveal.

Mocha nut butter balls: tender, snowball-style shortbread cookies flavored with cocoa and instant coffee, packed with toasted walnuts or pecans, rolled in sugar.

Kolachkes are Polish-American cream cheese cookies: a tender butter-and-cream-cheese dough wrapped around fruit jam, walnut, or sweet cheese filling. Rolled in powdered sugar instead of flour.

Kiss cookies tuck a whole chocolate kiss inside a buttery walnut shortbread, baked until just set and rolled in powdered sugar. Crack one open and the melty chocolate middle is the payoff. An easy holiday cookie that keeps for days.

Triple chip brownies with dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and butterscotch chips on a bittersweet chocolate brownie base. Chilled overnight for the ultimate fudgy, sliceable texture.

Favourite sour cream apple pie tosses tart apples in a vanilla sour cream custard, then crowns it with a crunchy walnut-cinnamon sugar topping. No butter in the topping means a cleaner, crispier nut crust.

Pumpkin pie layered with a sticky brown-sugar date and walnut base, then spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. A holiday upgrade on the classic that tastes like pecan pie had a baby with pumpkin.

Walnut fudge cookies (British-style biscuit fingers): a buttery shortbread base studded with walnuts and topped with a quick brown sugar fudge. Tea-time treat that slices clean.

Chocolate bourbon balls are no-bake holiday treats made with crushed vanilla wafers, walnuts, honey-sweetened melted chocolate, and a splash of bourbon. A Southern Kentucky tradition.

Philadelphia-style sour cream apple pie in a butter crust, topped with a brown sugar walnut streusel. The Pennsylvania classic that swaps lattice for custard and crunch.

Kolachky cream cheese dough, the rich, flaky pastry base for these Eastern European cookies. Just flour, butter, cream cheese and egg, chilled overnight, rolled on sugar and filled with prune, apricot, walnut or poppy seed.

Chocolate mocha pie with a silky French silk-style filling whipped from butter, chocolate, and instant coffee, set in a crunchy walnut-chocolate crust and crowned with coffee whipped cream. A make-ahead showstopper.

Chocolate pecan pie variation with walnuts, coconut, and mini chocolate chips in a corn syrup-rich filling. The Southern classic crossed with German chocolate flavors.

Banana ginger bran muffins with ground and crystallized ginger, oat bran, ripe banana, and a tart lemon glaze. A double-ginger muffin with whole wheat flour and high fiber.