2,107 bake recipes

Maple walnut brownies made with brown sugar, melted butter, and maple flavoring for a blondie-style bar with a caramel-like chew. Studded with walnuts and dusted with powdered sugar.

Coffee coconut cookies made with instant coffee and flaked coconut for a crunchy, buttery drop cookie with a roasted java edge. Simple one-bowl recipe.

Date-nut muffins with boiled dates, chopped pecans, and vanilla. The dates are softened with baking soda before mixing, creating a moist, caramel-like crumb.

Graham cracker muffins made with crushed graham crackers, honey, and skim milk. A quick, no-flour muffin with a warm, toasty graham flavor ready in 25 minutes.

Brown sugar walnut cookies with butter, vanilla, and a half walnut pressed into each one. Old-fashioned drop cookies with caramel-sweet flavor and a crunchy sugar top.

Berry-banana-walnut bread with mashed strawberries or raspberries, banana, orange zest, cinnamon, and nutmeg. A fruit-packed quick bread with a blueberry variation included.

Blue cornmeal pancakes made with egg whites, vanilla, and safflower oil for a lighter stack with a nutty, earthy crunch. Served with honey or molasses.

Cornmeal muffins made with filbert flour and brown sugar substitute for a nutty, lightly sweet breakfast muffin baked in just 20 minutes.

Drop molasses cookies with buttermilk, brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon rest overnight for deep flavor. Soft, cakey cookies with that old-fashioned dark molasses chew.

Homemade caramel nut corn with walnuts, pecans, or almonds coated in a brown sugar and corn syrup caramel, then baked low and slow until crunchy. Addictive snack for gifting.

Depression-era eggless, milkless, butterless cake with brown sugar, raisins, ginger, and cinnamon. A simple wartime recipe that bakes into a spiced, dense loaf with minimal pantry staples.

Fudgy chocolate roll-out cookies made with melted unsweetened chocolate and brown sugar. A rich, dark cookie dough that rolls, cuts into shapes, and bakes in under 10 minutes for a deeply chocolatey result.

Old-fashioned Pennsylvania ginger cakes with molasses, brown sugar, and a butter-lard shortening blend baked in muffin pans. Dense, spicy, and rich with that deep molasses flavor.

Pennsylvania Dutch pot pie with layers of homemade egg noodle dough and quartered potatoes baked in a buttered kettle for 3 hours. Not a typical pot pie, this is old-world comfort food.

Old-fashioned raisin muffins made with simmered raisins and their cooking liquid folded into a buttery, creamed batter. Plump fruit and a tender crumb in every bite.

Italian Christmas cookies (Patina di Natale) studded with toasted pine nuts and brightened by lemon zest. A buttery, golden-glazed cookie-cutter classic from the holiday tables of southern Italy.