Raisin recipe collection

Store-bought cinnamon rolls can never compete with the ones that are made from scratch.

Favorite fruit muffins: simple seven-ingredient base recipe that takes any fruit you have on hand. Raisins, berries, or chopped stone fruit all work. Twenty-muffin batch.

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.

Old-fashioned brown sugar drop cookies with cinnamon, clove, and orange zest, studded with raisins and chopped nuts. A German-style spice cookie that yields five dozen.

Tender chicken simmered in a vibrant orange-tomato sauce with raisins, pimientos, and warm spices. This naturally gluten-free fiesta chicken serves up bold flavors over fluffy rice.

Mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar, cinnamon, and raisins topped with toasted marshmallows. The classic Thanksgiving casserole that pulls off the rare sweet-and-savory side dish balance.

Old-fashioned oatmeal drop cookies use lard for tender texture, sour milk for tang, and chopped raisins for chew. Big-batch heritage cookie that yields 80 from one bowl.

Pineapple zucchini bread with crushed pineapple, cinnamon, raisins, and chopped nuts baked into a moist, tender quick bread. Two-loaf recipe perfect for freezing or gifting.

Sour cream raisin and nut pie cooks in a double boiler with tangy sour cream, plump raisins, cinnamon, clove, and chopped nuts, topped with a torched meringue. Old-fashioned prairie pie classic.

Old-fashioned sour cream raisin pie with chopped raisins folded into a tangy custard finished with nutmeg and a touch of lemon juice. Serves equally well warm, at room temperature, or chilled the next day.

Vegan oatmeal cookies sweetened with date sugar and sorghum syrup, no butter or eggs required. Soft, chewy, and packed with rolled oats, raisins, and cinnamon. Yields 60 cookies.

Soft pumpkin cookies loaded with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, raisins, and walnuts. A big-batch holiday cookie with warm spice flavor in every cakey bite.

Friendship cake bakes brandied fermented fruit starter into a tender tube cake with golden raisins, nuts, and orange extract. The classic 30-day starter dessert passed kitchen to kitchen.

Festive fruit cake cookies loaded with candied cherries, pineapple, raisins, and brazil nuts with vanilla and almond extract. All the flavors of fruit cake in a quick drop cookie.

Festive holiday fruitcake loaded with pecans, candied pineapple, dates, golden raisins, and candied citrus peel. Laced with orange liqueur and aged up to three weeks.

Pumpkin-shaped sandwich cookies filled with raisins, walnuts, and orange juice concentrate. A festive Halloween cookie project with pumpkin pie spice dough.