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Cherry cheese pie with a cottage cheese and sour cream filling on a press-in oil crust. No rolling pin needed for this easy, no-fuss pie with cherry topping.

Betty's cheesecake is a light lemon-spiked classic with whipped egg whites folded in for souffle-like texture and a graham cracker crust. Top with cherries or fresh fruit.

Fresh Cherry Pie with a Buttery Cream Cheese Crust recipe

Light, fluffy coconut cupcakes made with coconut syrup, cake flour, and whipped egg whites folded into a scalded milk batter. Topped with guava frosting for a tropical Hawaiian-style treat.

Pan-seared salmon in a vodka cream sauce with green peppercorns, lime juice, and chives over wilted spinach and caramelized onions. A restaurant-quality dinner at home.

Rugelach with fruit jam are traditional Jewish crescent cookies rolled with cream cheese pastry around apricot or raspberry jam, cinnamon sugar, raisins, and walnuts. A Hanukkah favorite.

Classic French chocolate mousse with Cognac, semi-sweet chocolate melted with coffee, and stiff egg whites folded in for airy richness. Unmolded and served with whipped cream.

Classic snickerdoodles rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked until soft-centered with a chewy edge. Cream of tartar gives the signature tang and crackled top. Pantry-staple cookie recipe.

Veal paprikash braised low and slow with white wine, tomatoes, and sour cream. Cubed veal shoulder turns fork-tender in a rich paprika sauce that's pure Hungarian comfort.

Cream of mushroom soup uses a pureed mushroom-onion base plus sliced mushrooms for double texture. Finished with cream, sherry, and thyme for a restaurant-style soup at home.

This brown sugar angel food cake swaps plain white sugar for molasses-rich brown sugar, giving each cloud-soft slice a deep caramel flavor. Light, fat-free, and whipped to tall, airy perfection from a dozen egg whites.

Baked beef and sour cream casserole layered with apple-and-herb stuffing. Browned ground beef bound with sour cream, sandwiched around stuffing for a hearty, retro-feeling main.

French chocolate cake from a 1953 recipe contest, made with cocoa powder, sour cream, and folded egg whites for a tender, tall crumb. Finished with a soft-ball brown sugar chocolate frosting that sets glossy and rich.

Soft molasses cookies use sour cream and a generous pour of molasses for the pillow-soft texture grandmas swore by. Spiced with ginger and nutmeg, rolled and cut from a chilled dough.

Old-fashioned sour cream crumb cake with cinnamon, raisins, and a buttery crumb topping. A tender loaf-pan cake with a crumbly, streusel-like crust baked right on top.

Sour cream poppyseed tea loaf is a tender, almond-kissed bundt cake speckled with poppy seeds. Sour cream keeps the crumb moist for days, ideal alongside afternoon coffee or tea.