152 square recipes

Buttery brown sugar bar cookies with chopped walnuts and a hint of rum extract, baked in one pan and cut into squares. Serve warm with ice cream or stash them in a tin for later.

Quick kolachky made with a tender sour cream and yeast dough, rolled thin on powdered sugar, filled and folded into delicate pinched squares. A classic Eastern European cookie finished in a snow of powdered sugar.

Chocolate Cream Cheese Sweet Chocolate Cake recipe

Rich fudge cake made with melted unsweetened chocolate, brown sugar, and sour cream, split into four layers with whipped cream filling and chocolate mocha frosting.

A warmly spiced brown sugar cake with chopped prunes, walnuts, and buttermilk baked in a 9-inch square pan. Cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves fill every moist, tender bite. Serve with sour cream or whipped cream.

Chocolate chip pan cookies bake the classic Toll House dough as one giant sheet, then cut into 24 squares. All the flavor of a chocolate chip cookie with none of the scooping, rotating or batch-baking.

Fragrant cumin-spiced brown rice baked with tender eggplant, sweet bell peppers, and tomatoes in a golden turmeric-ginger sauce, finished with melted cheese.

Rancheros are stuffed burger patties filled with American cheese and Ortega chiles, double-dipped in buttermilk and cornmeal, fried crispy, and topped with an easy-over egg.

Seared lamb shoulder chops smothered in a glossy pineapple-brown sugar sauce with tender carrots and green bell pepper. A sweet and sour twist on lamb that's ready in 35 minutes.

Grilled sweet and sour meatball kabobs loaded with pineapple, bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, and mushrooms. Brushed with a tangy steak sauce glaze and served over rice.

Sauteed rice noodles in the Thai pad thai style with shrimp, bean curd, pickled turnip, egg, bean sprouts, ground peanuts and fresh chili. Tangy, savory, and finished with lemon.

This tantalizing dish is made with pineapple chunks and cranberries which gives it a distinctive fruity taste.

Chocolate pecan pie with melted German sweet chocolate, toasted pecan halves, and a glossy corn-syrup custard baked into a flaky pie shell. The Southern holiday classic with a cocoa upgrade.

A moist chocolate date cake baked in an 8-inch square pan with chocolate chips in the batter and a crunchy chip-nut-sugar topping. Dates softened in boiling water keep it impossibly tender. The kind of no-fuss cake you carry straight to the picnic in the pan.

Grilled Caucasian shashlik from the Russian Tea Room: lamb kebabs marinated overnight in lemon, dill, garlic, and bay leaf, skewered with tomatoes, onions, and peppers. Served over rice.

Hot and sour shrimp stir-fry tosses sherry-and-ginger marinated shrimp with red bell pepper and scallions, then spoons over wilted watercress and crowns with toasted walnuts. Bright Asian-fusion supper.