Recipes with flour

A monkey apple bread. Half bread balls is filled with apple filling, the other half is sprinkled with apple filling, then dipped into melted butter. The aroma from the oven during the baking is absolutely divine, and the bread comes out addictive and delicious.

Here's one for you lucky folks that have chanterelles popping up in the back forty.

Fluffy drop biscuits made with cake flour for an extra-tender crumb. No rolling or cutting needed, just drop spoonfuls onto a cornmeal-dusted baking sheet and bake.

Homemade naan bread with yogurt, butter, and poppy seeds. A soft, pillowy Indian flatbread cooked on a hot griddle and finished under the broiler for charred bubbles.

French breakfast muffins are sweet nutmeg-scented puffs rolled in melted butter and cinnamon-sugar straight from the oven. Sometimes called doughnut muffins for their fairground-pastry vibe.

Classic homemade apple pie from scratch: a flaky double crust packed with cinnamon-spiced McIntosh and Granny Smith apples, thickened just enough and dotted with butter. The all-American dessert done right.

Lemon chocolate bars with a cocoa shortbread base, silky lemon curd middle, and bittersweet orange ganache on top. Three layers of contrasting flavor in every rich bite.

Baked chicken with sliced peaches and walnuts in a white wine butter sauce. Fruity, nutty, and golden with a whole wheat flour coating.

Chocolate marshmallow sandwich cookies with soft cake-like chocolate rounds and a fluffy marshmallow cream filling. Homemade whoopie pies for lunchboxes, bake sales, and after-school snacks.

Pisang goreng (Indonesian fried bananas) in a light egg batter, served over vanilla ice cream with a warm brown sugar rum sauce. A tropical dessert.

Pumpkin cake doughnuts with bran flakes and pumpkin pie spice, deep-fried until golden and rolled in cinnamon sugar. A spiced fall doughnut made from scratch with real pumpkin.

Yum yum cake is a sour-cream chocolate layer cake with cocoa powder batter and melted chocolate chip frosting. Old-fashioned church-cookbook favorite with lunchbox simplicity.

Cranberry and Granny Smith apple pie with nutmeg in a double crust. Tart cranberries burst against sweet apples for a festive holiday pie with gorgeous ruby-red filling.

Greek-style fried salt cod (bakaliaros) in a light flour batter, served with skordalia. Soaked overnight, boiled, battered, and pan-fried until golden.

Tender lemon blueberry quick bread studded with chopped nuts and finished with a tangy lemon-sugar glaze that soaks into the warm loaf. Bright, citrusy, and ready for breakfast or tea.

Pennsylvania Dutch molasses pie with a crumb topping mixed into a foamy molasses filling. An old-fashioned shoofly-style pie that bakes in just 30 minutes.