10,000 baking recipes

Yeast-free brown rice bread made with whole wheat flour and cooked brown rice. Hand-kneaded 300 times and naturally leavened overnight. Dense, hearty, and vegan.

Julekake is a traditional Norwegian Christmas bread with cardamom, candied fruits, and raisins, topped with confectioners icing, almonds, and candied cherries.

Four ways to shape holiday butter cookie dough: cutouts with egg paint, spritz cookies, chocolate caramel marbles, and coconut macaroon wreaths. One dough, endless options.

Double-deck chocolate cake with a devil's food crust, melted chocolate chip layer, chocolate-spiked white cake, and whipped cream topping. Two cake mixes, one show-stopping dessert.

Hungarian kiffels: tender butter-yeast cookies rolled around walnut, apricot, or prune filling. Old-world rolled cookies dusted in sugar, holiday tray classic.

Sleigh Belles are angel food cake mix cookies in three festive flavors: chocolate chip walnut, coconut, and chopped date. Light, airy holiday cookies from one box of cake mix.

Raisin-spice cookies made with oatmeal cookie mix, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, raisins, and chopped nuts. A quick drop cookie with warm holiday spices that makes four dozen in under 30 minutes.

No-oil spice cake using a box cake mix with applesauce replacing the oil and cinnamon for warm spice. A 5-ingredient, lower-fat cake hack that stays moist.

Homemade oatmeal citrus face scrub with dried lemon and orange peels, oats, and blanched almonds ground into a fine exfoliating powder. All-natural, 3 ingredients, stores for months.

Easy mocha fudge cake doctors a butter fudge cake mix with hot fudge topping and instant coffee folded into whipped cream. A 4-ingredient layer cake that tastes like a fancy bakery special.

Homemade puris, Indian deep-fried puffed bread made with whole wheat and white flour. The dough rests for an hour then fries into golden, airy pillows in seconds.

Cajun shrimp bread stuffed into a hollowed French loaf with toasted bread crumbs, sauteed onions, paprika, and melted cheddar on top. A Louisiana-style appetizer or party centerpiece.

Olive bread with Kalamata and oil-cured olives, bread flour, wheat germ and dried thyme, built on a grape sourdough starter. Artisan-style two-day rustic loaf with deep flavor.

Fresh berry tarts: a pair of giant 10x15 inch sheet tarts with vanilla cream over sweet pie crust, one tart piled with glazed cherries, the other with glossy blueberries.

A simple overnight yeast sponge starter made with just flour, water, and active dry yeast. The base for flavorful homemade bread with better texture and deeper taste.

Gold medal caramel bars layer a chocolate cake mix base with caramel topping and chocolate chips, then crumbled cake mix streusel. Four-ingredient potluck bars for the cookie swap.