Recipes with nuts

Chocolate syrup nut brownies built with bottled chocolate syrup, butter, eggs, and chopped nuts. A pantry-staple brownie with a cakey crumb, finished with a dusting of powdered sugar.

Buttery crescent cookies with ground nuts, chilled overnight, then shaped into half moons and rolled hot in powdered sugar. A traditional Christmas cookie with crumbly shortbread texture.

Whole wheat banana muffins made with mayonnaise in place of oil and eggs. The mayo keeps them moist and tender, and one bowl is all it takes. A quick, wholesome way to use up brown bananas.

Brown sugar apple squares with a buttery crumb base, sour cream batter, cinnamon, and chopped apples. The secret? They taste even better the next day. Makes 12.

Quick banana apricot bread with ripe banana pulp, chopped dried apricots, and a hint of lemon zest. Tender loaf with chewy apricot bits and a brighter twist on classic banana bread.

Old-fashioned tube cake packed with fresh apples, nuts, and raisins, then doused with brandy while still warm. Moist texture that improves overnight.

Two-loaf zucchini nut bread with shredded summer squash squeezed dry, cinnamon-scented batter, and chopped nuts folded throughout. The end-of-summer garden gift loaf.

Zucchini bread with dark brown sugar and vanilla, baked into two moist loaves. The garden-rescue quickbread that puts late-summer squash to delicious use.

Orange-spiced oatmeal raisin cookies with overnight orange-juice-soaked raisins, orange zest, and rolled oats. Plump, chewy, and citrus-bright.

Apple butter cookies are soft, spiced drop cookies sweetened with brown sugar and apple butter, studded with raisins and chopped nuts. Freezer-friendly for months and ready in under an hour.

Mom's banana oatmeal cookies are soft, chewy drop cookies with mashed bananas, rolled oats, butter, and a hint of lemon juice. A classic family recipe that yields nearly 80 cookies.

Classic fudgy brownies made with melted unsweetened chocolate and chopped nuts. The from-scratch one-bowl chocolate brownie that delivers chewy edges and a dense fudgy center.

Cocoa-rich brownies loaded with melty semi-sweet chocolate chips and optional chopped nuts. Crackly-topped chocolate squares from one bowl, ready in an hour for any sweet emergency.

Whole-wheat grape juice muffins with blue cornmeal, yogurt, and a pinch of nutmeg. Naturally sweetened with concord grape juice, no refined sugar. A wholesome lunchbox snack.

Chocolate mint brownies made with cocoa powder, mint extract, and chopped nuts in a one-bowl batter. A fudgy 8x8 pan that yields 16 squares with the classic Andes-mint-meets-brownie combo.

Bread machine pumpkin spice yeast bread with pumpkin puree, orange juice, pecans, and warm spices. A real loaf of yeasted bread, not a quick bread, with whole-wheat flour for depth.