Recipes with baking powder

Hot fudge sundae cake that bakes its own chocolate sauce underneath the cake layer. Pour hot water over the batter before baking, and the oven creates a fudgy pudding sauce beneath a light chocolate cake.

Four-layer Black Forest torte with thin unsweetened chocolate cake layers alternating between chocolate filling and cream filling. Unfrosted sides show off the elegant layers.

Giant chocolate chip whopper cookies loaded with semi-sweet chips, pecans, walnuts, and a shot of espresso. Crackly shell, fudgy center, bakery-style at home.

Scotch shortbread is a 5-ingredient buttery Christmas cookie cut into festive shapes. Powdered sugar gives a melt-in-the-mouth crumb; tender, sandy, and made for sprinkling with colored sugar.

Three-layer butter pecan cake filled with rich, from-scratch burnt-sugar caramel, frosted in buttercream and crusted with pecans. A classic Southern caramel cake worth the fuss.

Diabetic nut cookies: sugar-free drop cookies with bright orange zest, chopped nuts, and no refined sweeteners. An easy low-sugar cookie recipe for diabetes-friendly baking.

Microwave coffee cake bakes a cinnamon-sugar topped tender crumb cake in just 6 minutes, then finishes under the broiler for a caramelized crackly top. Coffee break ready.

Buttermilk chocolate chip pancakes deliver fluffy tangy pancakes with chocolate chips sprinkled on the first side as they cook. Quick lemon-juice buttermilk shortcut included.

After he perfected his original he made a crispy recipe that was marinated first then fried the conventional way. This one is double dunked into the coating to give it its great taste.

Layered apple kuchen: a tall German-Jewish bundt cake with three batter layers and two ribbons of cinnamon-sugar apples baked in between. The honey cake's apple-loving cousin.

Savory corn and ham pancakes fold leftover leg ham, corn kernels, red bell pepper, and green onions into a whole-wheat batter, then pan-fry to golden alongside blistered cherry tomatoes.

Low-sugar blender brownies made with applesauce instead of butter and sugar substitute for a lighter treat. Chewy, fudgy, and ready in under 30 minutes.

Buttermilk pancakes studded with plump dried cherries and crunchy macadamia nuts, finished with whipped cream. A Hawaiian-style brunch stack with sweet-tart, buttery flavor in every bite.

New England scones with bright orange zest, sweet currants, and whole wheat flour, finished with a powdered-sugar icing drizzle. Yankee-style scones with bakery-bright flavor.

Traditional Chinese almond cookies with butter and shortening get an egg wash for glossy shine. Dough chills 2 hours, then slices into rounds topped with whole almonds.

Blueberry streusel muffins with a pecan-brown sugar-cinnamon crumble topping and a lemon glaze drizzle. Bakery-style muffins with lemon zest in the batter and the streusel.