10,000 sugar recipes

Grandma's New England pickles: whole cucumbers pickled in a vinegar, salt, sugar, and dry mustard brine for 30 days. Tangy, addictive, old-school homemade pickles with a bite.

Homemade candied orange peel boiled five times to remove bitterness, then simmered in sugar syrup and rolled in sugar. A two-ingredient confection for baking or snacking.

Frozen lobster tails butterflied and microwave-steamed, then drizzled with a citrus butter made from lemon juice, orange zest, ginger, and paprika. A date-night seafood dinner ready in 40 minutes.

Light sponge cake baked in a casserole dish, then soaked with a hot rum sugar syrup and topped with toasted almonds or coconut. This boozy, syrup-drenched dessert is even better the next day.

Thanksgiving Chocolate Pumpkin Bread Pudding recipe

Monster cookies loaded with peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, M&M's, raisins and nuts. Flourless, chewy, and built for a crowd.

Pumpkin walnut cheesecake layers a buttery crumb crust with a spiced pumpkin cream cheese filling and a brown sugar walnut streusel topping. Thanksgiving's two best desserts in one tall, fork-tender slice.

Pineapple upside-down cake made in the slow cooker with pineapple rings, maraschino cherries, and brown sugar caramel base. No-oven retro dessert for warm-weather entertaining.

Scotch-spiked cheesecake on a toasted almond shortbread crust, crowned with homemade butterscotch sauce and chopped almonds. A three-component showpiece rated 4.8 stars.

Italian sausage and ricotta filling with spinach, pine nuts, and garlic for yeast pastry pockets. Savory hand pies baked golden with an egg wash crust.

Old-school peanut butter pie with vanilla custard filling and a peanut butter crumble layered both under and on top of the whipped cream. A diner-classic Amish-style pie that's comfort food in slice form.

This delicious crust uses pecans in place of traditional wheat ingredients. It can be used with fruit or pudding fillings or as the base of a cheesecake.

Light-as-air angel food cake gets crowned with fluffy boiled icing in this classic dessert where vanilla and almond extracts perfume both the cake and the glossy meringue-style frosting.

Hungarian sweet noodles tossed in margarine and topped with sugar-coated poppy seeds or chopped walnuts. A traditional Central European dessert pasta that's on the table in 15 minutes flat.

Microwave upside-down brunch cake with ham, crushed pineapple, and brown sugar under a cornmeal batter. Sweet and savory in under 30 minutes.

Grilled lobster dinner pairs halved lobster, husk-steamed corn, and littleneck clams over the fire, basted with garlic-oregano herb butter. A full New England seafood feast on the grill.