8,633 baked good recipes

Soft drop cookies packed with applesauce, plump raisins, and crunchy nuts, spiced with cinnamon and cloves for old-fashioned charm.

Light, pillowy yeasted beignets fried golden and buried under powdered sugar. This overnight dough recipe makes about 5 dozen New Orleans-style French doughnuts.

Butterscotch shortbread cookies made with dark brown sugar and unsalted butter, topped with chopped walnuts or pecans pressed into the dough. Makes 72 bite-sized squares.

Chocolate pepper cookies bring a slow, smoky heat from black pepper, cayenne, and cinnamon layered into deep unsweetened cocoa. Rolled thin and cut into shapes, they bake crisp with a warm spiced finish.

Lighter cocoa oatmeal cookies made with egg whites and nonfat yogurt instead of whole eggs and butter. Studded with mini chocolate chips and chewy with 3 cups of quick oats. Makes a whopping 66 cookies.

Soft pineapple cookies with crushed pineapple and chopped nuts or coconut in a tender, cake-like drop cookie. A tropical twist on the classic cookie jar favorite.

Chocolate chip fruitcake with candied cherries, dates, walnuts, and chocolate chips bound by a light egg-and-sugar batter. A modern fruitcake that converts even fruitcake skeptics.

Apple honey sesame oatmeal cookies sweetened entirely with apple juice and a spoon of honey, no refined sugar. Crisp, naturally sweet little oat rounds with a toasty sesame oil note.

Chocolate cola cake with real cola in both the batter and the warm cocoa icing, plus buttermilk, mini marshmallows, and optional pecans. A Southern sheet cake classic.

Easy meatless mincemeat pie made with green tomatoes, apples, raisins, brown sugar, and warm spices. A clever old-farm trick that uses end-of-season tomatoes to mimic traditional mincemeat.

Flourless Passover brownies made with matzo cake meal instead of flour. Rich, fudgy chocolate squares kosher for Passover with nuts folded in for crunch.

White chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies made with both butter and shortening for a chewy-crisp texture. Loaded with chopped macadamias and white chocolate in a brown sugar-vanilla dough.

Classic almond biscotti are twice-baked Italian cookies made with whole-wheat and white flour, turbinado sugar, eggs, vanilla, and toasted almonds. Crisp, dunkable, and made for coffee.

Rich devil's food layer cake: a deeply dark, old-fashioned two-layer chocolate cake made with melted unsweetened chocolate, brown sugar, and buttermilk-style milk. The birthday cake blueprint.

Mom's apple cookies are soft, cake-like drop cookies with grated fresh apple, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and walnuts. Old-fashioned spiced bakery flavor from a lunchbox-friendly batch of three dozen.

Red plum spice cake made with plum baby food for moisture, cinnamon, cloves, and vegetable oil baked in a Bundt pan. A dense, spiced oil cake with a clever shortcut ingredient that keeps it moist for days.