52 walnut log recipes

No-cook tuna rice salad tossed in a tangy sweet-and-sour vinegar dressing with fresh tomatoes, red onion, celery, scallions, and green peas. Low-fat, filling, and ready in 20 minutes from pantry staples.

Cantaloupe fruit salad with fresh pineapple, apple, raisins, coconut, and walnuts served with low-fat yogurt. A tropical no-cook fruit bowl with crunch from nuts and chewiness from coconut.

Low-fat oatmeal loaded with fresh apple chunks, raisins, walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon. A warm, naturally sweetened breakfast bowl that's also diabetic-friendly.

Lighter zucchini bread made with whole-wheat flour, egg whites, and applesauce instead of oil, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, and studded with walnuts. Low-fat, kid-approved, and bakes into two adorable mini loaves.

If you love cheese and nut mixing, you should try this recipe, it tastes really nice!

Pear walnut salad tosses crisp greens with thinly sliced pear, toasted walnuts and red onion under a pear-nectar vinaigrette that echoes the fruit. A light, vegetarian salad in about 10 minutes.

Greek Christmas bread (Christopsomo) with cardamom, golden raisins, walnuts, and whole wheat flour. A fragrant, round holiday loaf shaped by hand and baked golden.

Greek Christmas bread (Christopsomo) made in a bread machine with whole wheat flour, ground cardamom, golden raisins, and walnuts. A fragrant, festive holiday loaf with warm spice.

Rolled baklava swaps the usual diamonds for crisp phyllo logs filled with spiced walnuts, baked golden then dipped in honey-lemon syrup. The cold-syrup dip keeps every flaky roll crisp, not soggy.

Buttery shortbread logs dipped in melted semi-sweet chocolate and sprinkled with chopped walnuts. A 4-ingredient cookie with crisp, sandy texture and a rich chocolate finish.

Slice-and-bake walnut refrigerator cookies with brown sugar and toasted walnuts in a buttery dough. Roll into logs, chill overnight, slice thin, and bake fresh whenever the craving hits.

Soutzouki, the traditional Greek grape-and-walnut candy. A chewy grape-juice gel thickened with pectin, studded with whole walnuts and rolled into a log to slice. Naturally fruit-sweet, no candy thermometer needed.

Fruited cheese log of Monterey Jack and cream cheese blended with dried apricots, dates, raisins, and sherry, rolled in walnuts. The holiday appetizer plate centerpiece.

A no-bake chocolate-coated date log filled with walnuts, candied cherries, and crystallized ginger. Ground dates kneaded into a roll, coated in melted semisweet chocolate, and finished in chopped walnuts. Old-fashioned confection, no oven needed.

Old-fashioned icebox cake with ground marshmallows, dates, graham crackers, and walnuts rolled into a log with cream. A no-bake vintage dessert sliced and served cold.

Stained glass candies are no-bake chocolate log slices studded with colorful mini marshmallows and walnuts. A gorgeous holiday candy that looks like stained glass windows when sliced.