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Brown sugar chocolate chip cookies topped with red candy-coated chocolate pieces before baking. Shortening-based for chewy centers with a 5-7 minute bake time that keeps them soft.

Giant sunflower-shaped cookie with heart-shaped petals around the edge, frosted center sprinkled with chocolate chips and sunflower seeds. A showstopping party dessert you slice into wedges.

Buttery walnut cookies made with toasted ground walnuts, piped and baked low and slow until pale golden, then dusted with powdered sugar. Tender, crumbly, and freezer-friendly.

Additive Devil's Food Cake with Caramel Filling recipe

Chocolate sugarplums are forgotten cookies: meringue rounds with chocolate chips that bake overnight in a turned-off oven. The residual heat slowly dries them into airy, crisp clouds with chewy chocolate centers.

Little jam cakes with a hidden pocket of gooseberry jam baked inside a light, buttery sponge. Bite-sized treats for lunchboxes, tea time, or dessert.

A lighter take on chocolate brownies using reduced-fat margarine, sugar substitute, and skim evaporated milk. Topped with pecans and ready in just 30 minutes.

Nut snickerdoodles with chopped nuts mixed into the dough and a sugary tumbler-flattened top. A nutty twist on the classic cream-of-tartar cookie, makes 60 cookies.

Easy butterscotch poppy seed cake made with yellow cake mix, butterscotch pudding mix, and a generous helping of poppy seeds. Moist, rich, and done in 35 minutes.

Filled cookies sandwich a sweet raisin filling between two rounds of tender vanilla shortbread, sealed with fork tines and baked golden. Old-fashioned American lunchbox classic, like a homemade fig newton.

Texas spoon bread with cornmeal, scalded milk, and beaten egg whites for a light, soufflé-like Southern side dish. Puffs up golden and scoops soft from a baking dish.

Pumpkin pie cake layers a creamy pumpkin pie filling under a buttery yellow cake mix streusel topping with chopped nuts. Easier than pie, deeper than cake. Thanksgiving dessert that feeds a crowd.

Three-layer raspberry truffle brownies with a fudgy coffee-spiked base, raspberry cream cheese filling, and chocolate drizzle glaze. Rich, bakery-style, and make-ahead friendly.

Tender cocoa cut-out cookies made with cream cheese and almond extract, drizzled with a homemade cocoa glaze and topped with almonds. Dough chills overnight for clean, easy cutting. Makes 4 dozen.

Carob brownies sweetened with honey instead of sugar, mixed entirely in a food processor with butter and walnuts. A naturally sweeter, caffeine-free alternative to chocolate brownies.

Mom's chocolate chunk cookies with chunky semi-sweet chocolate, toasted pecans, and a butter-margarine blend that gives crisp edges and chewy centers. Bakery-sized scoops.