8,633 baked good recipes

Silky chocolate mocha cream pie topped with golden meringue. A from-scratch custard filling with real chocolate and coffee, baked in a flaky crust.

Lickety-Split Cocoa Cake: a one-bowl, eggless, dairy-free chocolate cake mixed with water, oil, and a splash of vinegar. The original Depression-era "crazy cake" that bakes up tender every time.

Crunchy bran muffins with a brown-sugar streusel topping over a moist, tender crumb. The bran cereal soaks in hot milk first, so these high-fiber breakfast muffins never turn out dry or gritty.

Classic New York cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, silky cream cheese and sour cream filling, and a no-crack hot-then-low oven method for a perfectly smooth top.

Flourless chocolate cake with a full pound of butter, 20 ounces of dark chocolate, 10 eggs, and Grand Marnier. Baked low and slow for 3 hours into pure fudge.

Red velvet pound cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with cocoa, shortening, and seven eggs for a dense, velvety crumb. Topped with cream cheese icing.

Old-fashioned stovetop apple dessert with layers of pastry squares and spiced apples cooked in a kettle. This vintage pot pie simmers until tender, then gets served with cream.

Lemon poppyseed spritz cookies are pressed into star and swirl shapes, baked tender, then iced with a pale lemon glaze and finished with a poppyseed sprinkle.

Yule log cookies shaped into scored logs, baked, sliced on the diagonal, and decorated with holly icing. Spiced with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg.

Emily Dickinson's black cake, a dense Victorian fruitcake with brandy, molasses, raisins, currants, and citron spiced with cloves, mace, and cinnamon. Baked low and slow.

Apple cinnamon chop bread made with frozen sweet dough, sliced Golden Delicious apples, and cinnamon sugar. Chopped and mounded into a rustic pull-apart loaf with just four ingredients.

A snow-white Texas sheet cake made with egg whites, buttermilk, and a touch of almond extract. Baked in a jelly roll pan for a thin, tender crumb that feeds a crowd and frosts up beautifully.

Funnel cake: classic state-fair fried batter poured through a funnel in a spiral pattern, fried golden, and dusted with powdered sugar and cinnamon. The Pennsylvania Dutch carnival treat.

Carthusian dumplings (Kartaeuserkloesse) transform stale kaiser rolls into sweet, deep-fried dumplings soaked in lemony custard, breaded, and rolled in cinnamon sugar. A German classic.

Grandma Rose's blueberry cake folds flour-coated blueberries into a buttery sheet cake topped with cinnamon sugar. Old-fashioned family recipe that serves 24, perfect for potlucks.

Crispy, golden blueberry fritters rolled in powdered sugar. Just 20 minutes and a handful of pantry staples get you a batch of 25 bite-sized treats that disappear fast.