1,150 almond butter recipes

These beautiful sandwich cookies are very tasty too, they can be a great gift for holidays. Feel free to use any your favorite fruit jam to replace apricot jam.

Apple cakes baked muffin-style with a tender sour cream and ground almond crumb, warm nutmeg, and slices of fresh apple fanned across the top. Dusted with powdered sugar for an easy single-serve dessert.

Mom's baklava layers buttery phyllo with a blend of ground almonds and walnuts, soaked in cinnamon-lemon honey syrup. The cool-syrup-over-hot-pastry trick keeps every flaky layer crisp.

Another delicious cake recipe from my Norway friend: Here in Norway, the cake has both names, but the official name is success, cake!

Dense fudge brownies with a half pound of unsweetened chocolate, chocolate chip top, and a hit of instant coffee crystals to deepen the chocolate flavor. Baked low and slow.

Crunchy homemade granola with dates, coconut, almonds, and cashews baked in honey butter with allspice and cinnamon. Makes ahead and stores for two weeks. Kid-friendly breakfast or snacking.

Chicken simmers in a rich, complex mole sauce built from chipotle chili, cocoa, peanut butter, sesame seeds, raisins, and warm spices. Authentic Mexican mole that's worth every minute.

Sweet coconut-filled bars with a graham cracker crust topped with melted chocolate. So easy and so good.

Apple-apricot strudel: flaky phyllo wrapped around a fragrant filling of apples, dried apricots, raisins, and almonds with a hint of cinnamon and lemon. Old-world pastry made approachable.

Roll-and-cut decorative sugar cookies brushed with colored egg-white wash before baking. Almond-scented dough cut into shapes for holidays, birthdays and party platters.

Glace baklava rolls candied fruit, ground almonds, and egg-bound sugar inside buttered phyllo, bakes until golden, then soaks in lemon-cinnamon syrup. A festive twist on classic Greek baklava.

Decorated cookies the grownups will love---they're loaded with toasted almonds and candied orange peel.

Spiced banana bread with ginger, allspice, fresh nutmeg, lemon zest, ground almonds, and four mashed ripe bananas. A warmly aromatic loaf that beats plain banana bread by a mile.

Pumpkin chocolate chip muffins spiced with pumpkin pie spice and studded with chocolate chips and toasted almonds. Moist, tender and quick to mix, a cozy fall and holiday breakfast bake.

Much lighter than classic cheesecake, and it is very smooth and flavorful, nice and creamy flavor from ricotta cheese and sour cream, lemon juice and zests add the refreshing citrus taste into the cheese pie; and the almond crust was flaky, nutty and tangy.

This peach crips are so delicious that I finish the whole thing within a day. I was inspired by "Cookie + Kate" (one of my favourite food bloggers, see her original recipe below). She always comes out amazing recipe ideas and beautiful photos. Don't forget to check her blog out if you love delicious and healthy food as much as I do.