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Vintage chocolate waffles made with melted semisweet chocolate and folded egg whites for a tender, cake-like texture. Serve hot with syrup, whipped cream, or a scoop of ice cream for brunch or dessert.

These pan-fried cakes are bursting with the oniony flavor of fresh snipped chives. Serve with sour cream and/or apple sauce.

Peace Pie layers mincemeat and spiced pumpkin custard in a single pie shell for a holiday mashup that combines two Thanksgiving favorites in every slice.

Frozen rum cream pie with an Oreo crust, gelatin-set filling whipped airy with cream, and shaved chocolate on top. Makes two 9-inch pies for parties or freezer storage. Pure boozy nostalgia.

Apple-hazelnut muffins with ground hazelnuts replacing half the flour and chewy dried apple pieces folded in. A small-batch six-muffin recipe ready in 30 minutes for breakfast or coffee break.

Lily cookies: cream cheese pastry rounds folded around a jelly center and dusted with powdered sugar. Old-school holiday cookies shaped like opening lilies.

Cream cheese pinwheel cookies filled with cinnamon, sugar, and chopped pecans. A tender, flaky dough rolled jelly-roll style and sliced into swirled rounds.

Cottage cheese blended with pumpkin purée, brown sugar, and warm spices makes a lighter, creamy filling for this graham cracker crust pie. Low-fat pumpkin pie that still satisfies.

Basic biscuit baking mix is a homemade Bisquick-style staple with flour, baking powder, dry milk, salt, and shortening. Makes 90 biscuits over 6 weeks of pantry storage. Just add water.

Mock apple pie made entirely from Ritz crackers, sugar syrup, and cinnamon. The Depression-era classic that fooled families when apples were scarce or expensive, still uncannily convincing today.

Berlinerkranzer are buttery Norwegian Christmas wreath cookies scented with orange, brushed with sugared egg white and trimmed with candied cherry holly berries. A delicate Scandinavian holiday tradition.

Spiced vegetarian mince pie filling with grated apples, golden raisins, currants, candied orange peel, dark rum, and warming spices. No suet, no meat. Two lattice-topped pies of British holiday tradition.

These chocolate chip coffee cookies are seriously delicious, and this time you don't have to worry about too much sugar, too high in lots of bad things. Because they are made with 100% whole wheat flour, applesauce and olive oil, not super sweet, and good for you.

Award-winning shortbread with just butter, sugar, flour, and salt pressed into thick cutouts: crisp edges, melt-in-your-mouth crumb, adorable sheep shapes with chocolate eyes optional.

Make a bunch of these buttery and moist pumpkin bread or muffins for Thanksgiving. Cream adds extra richness. Honey, molasses and vanilla with all the spices make the bread taste incredibly flavorful and tasty. They are also wonderful gifts for you to give away.

Favourite icebox cake: no-bake layers of graham crackers, instant pudding, and Cool Whip, finished with a warmed icing glaze. A retro fridge dessert with zero oven time.