Brussels Sprouts with Cherries and Toasted Walnuts

Yield: 15 servings

7 Ingredient Bars

Yield: 35 servings

Cranberry Orange Cheese Ball

Yield: 10 servings

Triple Cheese Balls

A single base mixture serves to create three different flavors of cheeseball.  All three are great, though my personal favorite is the Gorgonzola-cranberry.

• Pesto Cheeseball
• Horseradish-Bacon Cheeseball
• Gorgonzola-Cranberry Cheeseball

Yield: 20 servings

Hearty Whole Wheat and Nut Bread

Make your homemade bread even more awesome by mixing in a few bonus ingredients.

Yield: 2 loaves

Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread

There's nothing so tempting as the smell of cinnamon raisin bread while it's baking.  Your mouth with be salivating all day while it bakes and cools.

Yield: 1 large loaf

Apple Cranberry Pie

The only acceptable conclusion to a Thanksgiving dinner is a homemade pie.  I've always been partial to apple pie, and I decided to mix it up this time with some cranberries.  The tart flavor of the berries makes this pie delicious.

Yield: 8 servings

Black Pepper Chocolate Cookies

Want to try an unusual cookie?  Something with a little more punch than the normal?  Bake up some of these cookies with a combination of several spices -- they smell great and are a fun deviation from the normal.

Yield: 60 cookies

Cinnamon-Raisin Bread

This is just as easy to make as regular bread and will give it some extra flavor and texture.

Yield: 2 loaves

Twisted Maple Nut Bread

This is an aromatic and appetizing way to show off your baking skills.  If you're tired of boring old bread then give this a try and you won't regret it.

Yield: 16 servings

Butter Tarts

These are a classic of Canadian cuisine.  I can remember getting excited when I'd visit Grandma and she'd pull some of these out for us to eat.  One bite and you'll be sold on them.

Yield: 24

Honey Walnut Pie

You've got to love walnuts to want to try this recipe.  It's a pretty cool pie, and let's you break away from the traditional pies to try something new.

Yield: 8 servings

Chocolate Walnut Banana Bread

I love banana bread.  This time, I had some extra goodies in my cupboard that are leftover from past baking adventures, so they got thrown into the mix.  The results were pretty good.

Yield: 2 large loaves

Heavenly Surprise Cupcakes

When you bite it, you'll know where the name came from.

Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes

I made these for a company picnic recently.  People thought they looked good, but the real surprise was when they bit in to find a caramel center.  I made some with nuts and some without.  The recipe is pretty straight-forward, so you can make modifications pretty easily.

The pictures are from a double-batch.  The single-batch recipe below will make between 24-30 cupcakes.