44 cinnamon raisin recipes

Christmas fruitcake cookies made with whole wheat flour, dried apricots, dates, raisins, walnuts, and warm spices. All the flavor of fruitcake in a quick drop cookie.

Warm breakfast pita pockets filled with peanut butter, cream cheese, raisins, vanilla, and cinnamon. A sweet, portable morning meal heated in foil. Kid-friendly and ready in 30 minutes.

Cream cheese rugelach filled with cinnamon sugar, walnuts, and raisins rolled into flaky crescent pastries. A classic Jewish bakery cookie with a tender, buttery dough.

Whole rye berry porridge simmered with cinnamon, caraway, and vanilla, finished with plump raisins. A chewy, nutty Scandinavian breakfast topped with ricotta. Slow-cooked comfort in a bowl.

Old-fashioned rock cookies packed with raisins, chopped dates, and nuts in a spiced brown sugar dough with cinnamon and cloves. Dense, chewy, and fruit-studded, these hold up for days in a cookie tin.

Roasted acorn squash halves stuffed with curried ground turkey, applesauce, and raisin bread cubes. A low-calorie fall dinner for two with warm, cozy spices.

Lighter picadillo with lean beef, cinnamon, and cloves. Quick Mexican-spiced ground beef for tacos, burritos, or rice bowls.

Try these fruit cake bars instead of fruit bread, they are very handy and delicious, also they are great gifts at Thanksgiving or Christmas!

Italian chocolate nut cookies (mostaccioli) are dense, spiced cocoa cookies with chopped almonds and raisins on whole wheat flour. A traditional Calabrian holiday cookie with deep chocolate-clove flavor.

Vegetarian stuffed grape leaves (dolmades) with rice, pine nuts, raisins, tomato, and cinnamon. Slow-simmered in olive oil and lemon, served chilled with yogurt-mint dipping sauce.

Low-calorie applesauce raisin squares with whole wheat flour, natural bran, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg, topped with sliced almonds. Just 61 calories per square.

Vegan pumpkin cookies are dairy-free, egg-free, and packed with raisins and nuts. Soft, cake-like, warmly spiced with cinnamon, and held together by mashed pumpkin instead of butter or eggs.

Use some of those apples you got from the store with this scrumptious cookie that is perfect with the morning coffee.

Florentine cups: miniature honey-almond cereal cups with coconut, raisins, and orange zest, finished with a citrus icing drizzle. Italian florentine cookie meets mini muffin.

Chicken mole poblano with a rich sauce of cocoa, almonds, raisins, sesame seeds, and warm spices. Browned chicken simmers in a complex blended mole and served over rice.

Quick banana streusel coffeecake with almond extract, topped with a cinnamon-nutmeg crumble loaded with chopped almonds and raisins. Ready in 40 minutes.