Recipes with vanilla bean

Russian tea cakes (also called Mexican wedding cookies): buttery nut-studded shortbread balls rolled twice in powdered sugar. A classic holiday cookie tin staple in 30 minutes.

Soft oatmeal cookies loaded with raisins and chopped nuts, warm with cinnamon and allspice. Old-school drop cookies with chewy centers and crisp golden edges.

Cinnabon copycat cinnamon rolls with soft pillowy dough, a buttery brown sugar-cinnamon filling, and cream cheese frosting that melts into every spiral. The classic mall bakery flavor at home.

Cashew nut cookies with brown sugar, sour cream, and a buttery vanilla icing topped with whole cashews. Soft drop cookies with a caramel-like depth from the brown sugar base.

Chocolate walnut filled cake bakes a cocoa tube cake with a hidden ring of walnut filling running through the middle. Sugar-replacement-friendly tube pan dessert sweetened with fructose for low-sugar baking.

Delicate tulip-shaped cookie cups made from a thin butter and egg white batter, molded while warm over a glass. Fill with ice cream, sherbet, or fresh fruit.

Orange slice fruitcake with candied orange, pecans, dates, and coconut in a buttermilk batter. Baked low and slow, then soaked with a citrus butter glaze.

Rolled and cut oatmeal cookies with finely chopped rolled oats worked into a buttery shortbread-style dough. Holds shape through cutting, perfect for cookie decorating.

Coffeecake Eschmann with a tender vanilla cake base and a thick cinnamon-butter streusel topping, baked in a sheet pan and dusted with powdered sugar. Feeds a crowd easily.

Quick and easy muffins from pantry staples, ready in about 30 minutes. A plain muffin base you can flavor any way you like for fast weekday breakfasts or afternoon snacks.

These delicious cookies are made with egg whites, cocoa powder and chocolate chips, if you are in a gluten-free diet, you will love these sweets.

Filled molasses cookies are old-fashioned sandwich cookies with rolled molasses dough hugging a sweet cooked date filling. A Depression-era cookie jar staple with deep flavor.

Swedish butter cookies are slice-and-bake shortbread topped with browned butter frosting. Five ingredients in the dough, nutty caramelized butter on top, and the kind of crisp-edge melt that makes Christmas cookie tins worth opening.

Lighter applesauce fruitcake with dates, raisins, walnuts, and candied fruit. No alcohol soak, no months of aging. Three loaves of moist holiday cake without the heaviness of traditional fruitcake.

Orange icebox cookies are sliceable shortbread-style rounds with fresh orange zest, brown sugar, and chopped pecans. Make ahead dough rolls and chills until baking.

Red and white peppermint pinwheel cookies with a buttery almond dough, rolled jelly-roll style and topped with crushed candy canes. A festive Christmas cookie classic.

Moist banana bread with wheat germ, oats, and walnuts, sweetened with apple juice concentrate instead of refined sugar. A wholesome low-calorie loaf perfect for using overripe bananas from your counter.

Moist spiced zucchini cake with crushed pineapple, walnuts, currants, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Topped with an almond-lemon cream cheese frosting. A garden-to-dessert stunner.

Kentucky bourbon brown sugar pound cake: a tender bundt-style pound cake spiked with real bourbon and sweetened with dark brown sugar for a caramel-deep, slightly boozy Southern classic.

This classic New York-style cheesecake starts with a ready-made graham cracker crust for simplicity, then bakes rich cream cheese filling topped with sweetened sour cream. The two-temperature baking creates creamy texture without cracks.

If you forgot to make a cake for dessert, then try this delicious Boston cream pie that doesn't take long to make!

Double-frosted brownies: fudgy chocolate brownies topped with a creamy cooked fondant frosting, then crowned with melted unsweetened chocolate. Three layers, three textures, serious chocolate intensity.

Chocolate fudge bundt cake coated with sliced almonds and drizzled with glossy chocolate glaze creates an impressive centerpiece dessert that's easier than it looks.

Filled with fruits and fibers this flavorful two-and-a-half pound loaf provides the RDA for potassium in two half-round slices.

Impossible chocolate pie: blend everything in a blender, pour into a pie plate, and bake. The pie forms its own crust as it bakes. A crustless chocolate custard pie with 2 minutes of prep.

Swedish strips press into a sheet pan, bake into golden shortbread, then get topped with warm jam and a snow of powdered sugar. One pan, 48 bars, zero rolling required.

Brownie and cookies, you can eat both of them at the same time, moist, crunchy and delicious!

Tender banana sheet cake rolled around sweetened whipped cream, topped with glazed raspberries. An elegant dessert that looks impressive but uses simple ingredients.

Fruit pizza with a sugar cookie crust, vanilla cream cheese sauce, fresh fruit topping, and a shiny orange juice glaze. A colorful party dessert that slices like pizza.

A cooked vanilla fudge recipe beaten with marshmallow cream for added fluffy creaminess.

These scrumptious breakfast muffins are made with buttermilk, diced rhubarb and chopped nuts.

Reese's peanut butter cake stacks two peanut-butter-and-brown-sugar layers with a cream cheese peanut butter filling and a warm pour-over chocolate glaze. The candy bar in cake form.

Poppy seed bundt cake with vanilla and almond extracts, finished with a bright orange-almond glaze. A versatile cake for breakfast, snacking, or dessert.

Chocolate terrine with cream cheese, milk chocolate, and a hint of amaretto. No baking required. Just chill, slice, and serve this silky make-ahead dessert for 10.

Mayonnaise spice cake with raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and chopped nuts. No eggs or butter needed. The mayo keeps this old-fashioned cake incredibly moist with a tender, spiced crumb.

Halloween mini pumpkin cupcakes are tender pumpkin spice bites topped with cream cheese frosting tinted orange, black, and white. Decorate with candy and sugar crystals for spooky kid-friendly party treats.

Kasha kugel: baked Jewish casserole of toasted buckwheat groats with apples, cottage cheese, yogurt, honey, and cinnamon. Healthier whole-grain take on the classic sweet kugel.

Chewy butterscotch blondies loaded with Heath toffee brickle bits and a whisper of almond extract. Buttery, brown-sugary, and dangerously easy to eat straight from the pan.

Puffy sour cream drop cookies topped with cinnamon sugar before baking. Soft, cakey, and lightly golden around the edges. Simple pantry ingredients, 30 minutes start to finish. Makes 18.

Rich mahogany chocolate pound cake with cocoa, sour cream, and both white and brown sugar, baked in a bundt pan. Dense, moist, and deeply chocolatey with an optional quick chocolate sauce.

Pears Melba with Bosc pears poached in Marsala and dry wine syrup, served over vanilla ice cream with pureed raspberry sauce. A classic French dessert with elegant simplicity.

Aplets are a great bar cookie for summertime or school lunch boxes.

Need a new kind of pie to take to Christmas dinner? Try this decadent dessert that will have everyone talking.

A thin, fudgy chocolate sheet cake baked right on a cookie sheet and iced while still hot. Feeds a crowd in 30 minutes flat. The ultimate potluck and church supper cake.

No-bake cherry cheese pie with cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, and vanilla in a graham cracker crust, topped with cherry pie filling. The classic potluck dessert.

Homemade vanilla raspberry liqueur: fresh raspberries, vodka, vanilla bean, and allspice infused for weeks. Deep ruby-red cordial for sipping or cocktails.

Hoernchen are German almond crescent cookies made with ground almonds, butter, and vanilla, dipped in colored sugar or sprinkles for a festive holiday cookie.

Fudgy brownie flavor meets chewy cookie texture in these chocolate-studded treats loaded with toasted pecans. The secret? Cocoa powder and chocolate chips team up for double-chocolate intensity.