Recipes with vanilla extract

Homemade chocolate cannoli with beer-leavened fried shells filled with sweetened ricotta, chocolate chips, toasted walnuts, and orange and lime zest. An Italian pastry shop classic made from scratch.

French silk pie with a cloud-soft, no-bake chocolate filling whipped from butter, sugar, eggs, and unsweetened chocolate. Set overnight in a flaky pie shell for the silkiest slice.

Granola chip cookies loaded with granola, rolled oats, chocolate chips, and raisins. A chunky, chewy drop cookie that makes a huge batch of about 7 dozen.

Italian-style almond coca cookies with a hidden whole almond at the heart, half rolled in cocoa powder and half in powdered sugar. Two-tone cookies with chopped almonds in the dough for double texture.

Soft chocolate drop sugar cookies made with cocoa powder and buttermilk, scooped large and dusted with sugar while warm. Cake-like, chocolatey, and ready in 30 minutes.

Chocolate icebox pie folds whipped cream into a cream cheese and chocolate syrup filling, then freezes it in a chocolate crumb crust. A no-bake summer dessert that scoops like ice cream pie.

Shellfish soup with shrimp and sea scallops in a white wine and shrimp shell stock infused with vanilla bean and cilantro. Spring vegetables simmered just one minute to stay crisp.

Strawberry-corn pancakes fold fresh sliced strawberries into a yellow cornmeal-and-flour batter for breakfast pancakes with crisp, slightly gritty edges and bursts of berry. Ready in 20 minutes.

Buffalo chip cookies loaded with oats, corn flakes, chocolate chips, coconut, and pecans in a massive, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink drop cookie. Big, chunky, and over the top.

A friend just sent me this recipe, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.

Wheat-free chocolate cream cake made with ground hazelnuts instead of flour, spiked with Frangelico, and topped with hazelnut whipped cream and chocolate curls.

Double chocolate oatmeal cookies with cocoa in the dough and semi-sweet chocolate chips throughout. Chewy, fudgy drop cookies with 3 cups of oats.

German Sweet Chocolate Cake with Coconut Pecan Filling and Frosting recipe

Birds in the Nest cookies with brown sugar dough rolled in ground nuts and filled with jelly. A thumbprint cookie recipe passed down through generations of holiday baking.

Oven-Baked Rum-Raisin-Apple Graham-Cracker Pie recipe

Cinnamon swirl loaf made easy with frozen bread dough, rolled jelly-roll style around a cinnamon-sugar spiral, baked golden and drizzled with vanilla icing. Beginner-friendly and made for morning toast.