The kitchen notebook
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Browse 43 practical home-cooking recipes. Use a category to narrow the list or sort recipes with a documented total time.
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Almond Cookies
Easy almond cookies finished with a simple almond icing.
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Apple Crisp
Baked apple crisp with an oat and brown-sugar topping.
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Brownies
Chocolate-chip brownies made with cocoa powder.
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Carrot Cake
A cinnamon-spiced carrot cake with optional raisins and pecans.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies transcribed from our handwritten kitchen notebook.
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Coffee Cake
A layered cinnamon coffee cake with brown-sugar topping.
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Gingerbread Cake
A warmly spiced gingerbread cake made with molasses and applesauce.
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Ice Cream Cake
Layered chocolate and vanilla ice cream cake with an Oreo crust and fudge topping.
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Oatmeal raisin cookies with brown sugar and cinnamon.
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Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut butter blossom cookies topped with chocolate kisses.
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Red Velvet Cake
Red velvet cake batter that can also be baked as cupcakes.
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Scotcheroos
Peanut butter cereal bars topped with chocolate and butterscotch.
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Snickerdoodles
Classic snickerdoodles rolled in cinnamon sugar.
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Soft Gingerbread Cookies
Soft gingerbread cookies with molasses and warm spices, transcribed from our kitchen notebook.
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Sugar Cookies
Chilled cutout sugar cookies with a simple powdered-sugar icing.
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Vanilla Cupcakes
Simple vanilla cupcakes made with buttermilk.