Recipes with sugar

Loaded double-chocolate cookies in the style of the famous Neiman Marcus recipe: oatmeal blended to a fine powder, plus both chocolate chips and a grated chocolate bar melted right through the dough. Rich, chewy and intensely chocolaty.

Tender sour cream brownies studded with chocolate chips. The sour cream creates extra-moist texture that stays fudgy for days in this simple one-bowl recipe.

Authentic Georgia pecan pie with a 50-50 blend of light and dark corn syrups, baked low and slow in a deep-dish shell. The split syrup is what gives this pie its signature balance.

Homemade cheese blintzes, thin tender crepes wrapped around a sweet cottage cheese filling and rolled up, served with chocolate sauce. A classic Eastern European brunch treat made from scratch.

Cheddar buttermilk biscuits with cold butter cut into flour, grated cheese folded into the dough, and golden tops baked tender and tall. A flaky brunch-table staple.

Savory white bread for ABM (bread machine): customizable white loaf with dried onion, garlic, sun-dried tomato, or herbs. Set-and-forget yeast bread that adapts to your pantry.

Cold lunch biscuits are sturdy, lightly sweetened lunchbox biscuits made with milk, shortening, and a stiff flour dough. Bake them once and they keep for weeks in a tin.

Soft pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with cinnamon and a tender, cake-like crumb. A fall favorite that turns one cup of pumpkin puree into 36 chewy, spiced cookies.

Easiest chocolate chip cookies use mostly brown sugar plus a splash of milk for a soft, chewy crumb loaded with chocolate chips. A no-chill, one-bowl drop cookie ready in about 20 minutes.

Halloween pumpkin pie with a from-scratch pastry crust, silky spiced custard, and fresh grated ginger for a livelier kick than the usual canned pie. The kind of pumpkin pie that earns its place on the autumn table.

Halloween pumpkin pie with a from-scratch pastry crust, silky spiced custard, and fresh grated ginger for a livelier kick than the usual canned pie. The kind of pumpkin pie that earns its place on the autumn table.

Mom's chocolate chip pecan cookies use shortening instead of butter for thicker, chewier cookies that hold their shape, packed with semi-sweet chocolate morsels and toasted pecans throughout.

Mocha walnut cookies bake coffee-spiked, cinnamon-warmed butter cookies and finish each warm cookie with melted chocolate chips smeared on top. Coffee-shop cookies with a frosted finish.

Make it a jolly festive season with delicious, easy Christmas snacks. Give the gift of a memorable treat.

Harvest apricot preserves cook a big batch of ripe apricots with sugar and lemon juice to setting point, then jar and seal with rum-dipped cellophane tops. An old-world summer preserve.

Rolled baklava swaps the usual diamonds for crisp phyllo logs filled with spiced walnuts, baked golden then dipped in honey-lemon syrup. The cold-syrup dip keeps every flaky roll crisp, not soggy.