Deep chocolate flavored cake with a hint of stout (or use brewed coffee) finished off with a yogurt-based glaze. Delicious!

Lovely little crispy rough puff pastries filled with tangy lemon curd and a cheesecake-like filling. “Maids of Honour”

From the top 20 recipes at America’s Test Kitchen – sticky buns. Terrific soft-textured bun with a sticky, caramely topping.

“Reverse” Chocolate Chunk Cookies – deeply chocolate, sweet, and filled with white chocolate chunks (or chips).

Buttery, flaky pastry stuffed with spinach, feta, and spices. This will be great with a sweet fruit filling, too!

Flourless Chocolate-Chili Cake – luscious, gooey chocolate cake with a little kick from the cayenne. You control the amount of kick!

Brown Butter Orange Loaf – a little lighter than pound cake, taken over the top with the nutty, buttery brown butter.

Made with ground almonds, dates, cocoa, and whatever else you feel moved to add. Sweet and satisfying fruit and nut snacks.

Moravian Sugar Cake – soft, fluffy yeast-dough cake. Topped with crunchy, buttery cinnamon/sugar/butter topping. Terrific.

Soft, coffee flavored cookies filled with crunchy, buttery toffee bits. Small batch and easy to make. Delicious!

Creamy, spicy black bean dip just in time for the Super Bowl. Super easy – throw all of the ingredients into the blender and go!

Soft, spongy Blood Orange Upside-Down Cake topped with a caramely crunch. Citrus season is prime time to make this!

Honey Date Oat Muffins: Honey-sweetened, soft, fluffy oatmeal muffins with chopped sweet dates.

Rich, creamy, pepperminty whipped cream-based pie in a homemade Oreo pie crust. Refreshing, sweet and delicious.