Recipes with vanilla extract

Ripe banana bread blends mashed bananas with whole wheat and all-purpose flour, butter, eggs, and chopped walnuts for a tender, fiber-rich quick bread loaf. A half-whole-wheat upgrade.

Bonnie's blueberry muffins are tender, lightly spiced muffins loaded with two cups of fresh blueberries and finished with a melted butter brush and sugar sprinkle. Bakery-style with a delicate nutmeg twist.

Creamy peanut butter fudge with marshmallow cream for guaranteed-smooth texture, no graininess, no failed batches. A full pound of peanut butter per pan delivers rich, melt-in-mouth squares.

Just by dipping the top into melted chocolate makes these already delicious tails taste even better. Nothing can go wrong with the combination of butter and chocolate. They are wonderful Christmas cookies every year, and your family or friends will be asking you for these cookies every Christmas.

No-bake peanut butter drops with puffed wheat cereal, walnuts, and coconut bound in a quick stovetop sugar syrup. 60 cookies from one pan, no oven required.

Crisp peanut butter cookies stamped with the classic fork crisscross. Old-fashioned bakery-style cookies with a sandy snap, perfect for dunking in milk or layering with chocolate.

Classic Christmas cut-out cookies that hold their shape, with cornstarch in the dough for a tender bite and crisp edges. Roll, cut into festive shapes, bake golden, and decorate with icing.

Oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and three warm spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom. The chewy holiday-leaning take on the classic. Four dozen per batch.

Chocolate, butter and peanut butter make these cookies super delicious!

Honey orange muffins sweetened with pure honey and brightened with fresh orange juice. One-bowl batter, ready in 30 minutes for a tender, golden breakfast bake.

Silky homemade low-fat chocolate pudding made with cocoa powder, nonfat milk, and a hint of espresso. Ready in under 20 minutes, this rich stovetop pudding proves you don't need heavy cream for deep chocolate flavor.

Low-fat oatmeal raisin cookies built on applesauce instead of butter, with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and orange zest. Soft, chewy, and warmly spiced.

Moist banana bread swaps butter for applesauce and uses egg whites instead of whole eggs. Low-fat quick bread sweetened by 4 ripe bananas with cinnamon. Freezes up to 2 months.

Make-ahead overnight French toast casserole soaked in vanilla custard and topped with a maple-pecan brown sugar streusel. Pop it in the oven the morning of brunch and you've got hot French toast for a crowd.

Classic pecan pie made easy: a one-bowl filling of corn syrup, brown sugar, butter, and vanilla poured into a crust and crowned with pecans. The Thanksgiving and Christmas staple, no fuss required.

If you love muffins, then you will simply adore this healthy, light snack that's perfect for dessert after dinner.