10,000 batter recipes

Fuss-free chocolate pound cake is a dense, buttery cocoa cake with a fine, velvety crumb baked in a tube pan. No frosting needed, just a tender slice of deep chocolate. Easy from-scratch comfort baking.

Spicy garlic-ginger popcorn popped in corn oil with fresh ginger root, then tossed in butter, chili sauce, and parsley. A savory snack ready in 10 minutes.

No-bake chocolate cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, cream cheese, melted chocolate chips, and whipped cream set with gelatin. No oven needed for this rich, silky dessert.

Laminated yeast pastries with butter folded through dough, twisted into spirals and filled with cinnamon apples. Overnight fermentation develops rich flavor.

Bagna Cauda pasta sauce with 15 garlic cloves, anchovies, roasted garlic, and cream, reduced and tossed with ziti and carrot matchsticks. A rich Piedmontese-inspired pasta in 40 minutes.

Blue corn sopapillas made with whole wheat flour, blue cornmeal, yeast, and honey. Rolled thin and fried until puffy and golden, these New Mexican pillows of dough are irresistible drizzled with honey.

Velvety Spanish-inspired almond soup simmered with chicken stock, celery, garlic, and mace, then puréed and finished with heavy cream. Topped with toasted almonds.

Green beans and butternut squash glazed in currant jelly, garlic butter, basil, and lemon juice, topped with toasted walnuts. A make-ahead holiday side dish.

Bread machine walnut bread: dump-and-press loaf with bread flour, chopped walnuts, dry milk powder, and active dry yeast. Hands-off in the bread maker, ready in about an hour with rapid bake.

Abby's Chocolate Cake: a classic two-layer chocolate cake with sour cream for tang, frosted in cooked fluffy white seven-minute frosting. Vintage American birthday-cake territory.

Overnight hash brown casserole with frozen potatoes, sour cream, cream of mushroom soup, and cheddar cheese. Assemble the night before and bake for a hands-off brunch side.

Old-fashioned beef tongue simmered tender, sliced thin, and served with a sweet-tart raisin sauce. Classic nose-to-tail dish from the Pennsylvania Dutch and German-American kitchen tradition.

Vanilla pecan slice-and-bake cookies from a make-ahead dough that chills into logs and freezes for up to 3 months. Crisp, buttery icebox cookies baked from frozen in 12 minutes.

Graham cracker cookies layer buttery crumbs, walnuts, chocolate chips, and flaked coconut, then bake with a brown sugar and evaporated milk drizzle. No mixing required. Also called magic bars or seven layer bars.

Macadamia nut cookies with a whole nut wrapped in buttery shortbread dough and drizzled with melted chocolate. Bite-sized Hawaiian-inspired treats baked in 13 minutes.

Flourless chocolate espresso cake baked in a water bath with a pound of butter, two types of chocolate, and a fresh raspberry puree sauce. Dense, fudgy, and gluten-free.