10,000 cake recipes

Old-fashioned applesauce doughnuts with whole wheat flour, buttermilk, and warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace. Fried golden and dusted with sugar.

Pumpkin black walnut biscuits are tender Southern-style biscuits made with pumpkin puree, buttermilk, and chopped black walnuts, scented with cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Subtle, savory-sweet, fall on a plate.

Double chocolate slice-and-bake refrigerator cookies with melted chocolate, mini chips, and a hint of cinnamon. Make-ahead dough freezes for 2 months.

Orange-scented zucchini bread brightened with both orange zest and orange extract, studded with pecans. A lighter quick bread with no added oil for a tender, citrusy crumb.

Chocolate cherry cookies with a maraschino cherry tucked into each thumbprint and a glossy chocolate-condensed milk frosting spooned over the top before baking.

Five-grain soda bread for the bread machine, with white, whole wheat, rye, graham, and oats, plus raisins and tangy buttermilk. A hearty no-knead loaf with no yeast and no rise time.

Frosted date ring cake: spiced buttermilk-oat cake studded with dates and nuts, baked in a mold and finished with orange buttercream and candied cherries. Holiday cake with vintage charm.

Parisian Sophisticates: almond-vanilla buttermilk cupcakes hollowed out and filled with airy chocolate truffle mousse, topped with toasted cake crumbs. Vintage tea-party fancy.

Hawaiian macadamia bread folds crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, and chopped macadamia nuts into a tender quick bread. Tropical tea bread or breakfast loaf with island flavors in every slice.

Banana Apple Bread loaded with mashed banana, chopped fresh apple, and applesauce, sweetened with brown sugar and cinnamon. A low-fat quick bread with no added oil.

Mexican dump cornbread with three cheeses, green chili peppers, and honey. A quick sheet pan cornbread where everything gets dumped into one bowl, stirred, and baked golden.

Scotch Teas are chewy oat bars made with just five ingredients: butter, brown sugar, rolled oats, salt, and baking powder. Soft from the oven, they firm up into buttery, toffee-like treats.

It's hard to resist these addictively delicious cookies. Oats, shredded wheat, and dates add extra goodness. Feel free to use half whole wheat flour and half all-purpose flour. The result is as yummy.

Mjuk pepparkaka, a soft Swedish spice bread with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and cloves in a sour cream batter. A moist, fragrant Scandinavian loaf that's not a cookie.

Irish boiled dinner with feather dumplings: corned beef simmered low with potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, onions, and cabbage. Fluffy steamed dumplings cook right in the briny pot likker for the ultimate one-pot St. Patrick's Day spread.

Chewy date and nut bar cookies with a crisp edge, baked thin on a sheet pan and dusted with powdered sugar. Simple, old-fashioned, and only 6 ingredients.