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Tender cream cheese pastry sandwiches a layer of thick dried fruit filling, then bakes into golden bars. These reduced-sugar cookies cut into 2 dozen squares for sharing.

Emeril-style focaccia topped with olive oil, mixed herbs, and grated Parmesan. Press dimples into the dough, drizzle, season, and bake until golden. Simple and straightforward.

Bran muffins with a hidden spoonful of apple butter baked into the center. A quick semi-homemade muffin using bran muffin mix sweetened with honey.

No-bake layered dessert with sliced angel food cake, almond-scented pudding cream, and cherry pie filling stacked in a 9x13 pan. Chill, slice, and serve.

Raspberry meringue cookies piped into rosettes and baked low and slow until crisp. Light as air with real raspberry preserves folded into the meringue.

Friendship bread, the simple yeast loaf made with bread flour, water, sugar, and oil. Tall, golden, soft-crumbed, and big enough to bake into two loaves to share.

Melting moments cookies made with just 4 ingredients: flour, cornstarch, powdered sugar, and margarine. Baked low and slow, they crumble and dissolve on your tongue.

Orange shortbread bars with fresh orange zest and cornstarch for a melt-in-your-mouth sandy texture. Score before baking for clean, even cuts.

Espresso-hazelnut shortbread cookies with real coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, and cold butter baked low and slow. Sandy, crumbly, and deeply aromatic with a bold coffee bite.

Weintraubentorte, a traditional German grape torte with a buttery shortcrust shell and a whipped egg white, almond, and fresh grape filling baked until golden.

Filled lemon cookies sandwich thin, buttery shortbread rounds with a bright lemon filling. Slice-and-bake icebox dough with a tea party finish dusted in powdered sugar.

Simple cocoa brownies with just 6 ingredients: margarine, cocoa powder, sugar, eggs, flour, and optional nuts. A one-bowl, mix-and-bake brownie recipe ready in 30 minutes.

Classic four-ingredient shortbread cookies with just flour, butter, sugar, and salt. Pressed into a sheet pan, pricked with a fork, and baked until set.

Crisp, light date macaroons made with just four ingredients: egg whites, dates, nuts, and powdered sugar. Naturally flour-free and baked to a golden brown.

French sables are buttery slice-and-bake cookies with a crumbly, sandy texture and sparkling sugar crust. Six ingredients, no leavener, all about the butter.

Grandma's classic pound cake: just five ingredients (butter, flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla) baked into a tender, golden loaf. Old-fashioned heritage recipe with no leavening.