2,460 cinnamon cake recipes

Iowa applesauce cake, a moist spiced sheet cake with raisins and walnuts, crowned with tangy cream cheese frosting and dusted through a paper doily. Heartland baking at its cozy best.

Soft cream cheese cookies studded with pecans and swirled with apricot preserves, topped with matching apricot frosting and coconut for pillowy sweetness.

Soft, fruity cookie bars loaded with bananas, crushed pineapple, maraschino cherries, and crunchy walnuts. Topped with a buttery powdered sugar glaze that makes them irresistible at potlucks.

Christmas Lizzies are boozy Southern fruitcake cookies loaded with candied cherries, raisins, dates, pecans, and citrus zest, soaked in whiskey. Make them weeks ahead and drizzle with spirits to age.

Cardamom whole wheat walnut biscotti combine ground walnuts, whole wheat flour, and warm cardamom into crisp twice-baked Italian cookies. No butter, no yolks, just clean flavor.

Ginger molasses skillet cake baked in cast iron with brown sugar, five warm spices, pine nuts on top, and a sour cream whipped cream. Served warm from the pan.

Moist wholemeal zucchini cake topped with sliced apple, crunchy walnuts, and warm allspice. Baked in a ring tin, this one's brilliant warm or cold with a cuppa.

Whole wheat carrot oatmeal cookies fold shredded carrots, rolled oats, molasses and warm spices into hearty drop cookies. A lunchbox-friendly bake ready in 25 minutes.

French doughnut muffins taste like cake doughnuts without the deep fryer: nutmeg-spiced batter baked, then dipped in butter and rolled in cinnamon-sugar while still warm.

Spiced gingerbread dough shaped into edible bowls over an ovenproof glass mold, with star cutouts around the rim. Use leftover dough for classic Christmas gingerbread cookies.

Fat-free carrot muffins with cinnamon, cloves, orange zest, and raisins. No butter or oil needed, just grated carrots and eggs for moisture in a warmly spiced batter.

Holiday fruit bars: a brown sugar shortbread crust topped with a chewy raisin, candied cherry, and lemon-zest filling. Cookie-tin classic for Christmas and gift trays.

PB&O snackers: chewy peanut butter oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, warm cinnamon, and nutmeg. A hearty snack cookie that beats any coffee-shop version.

Brown sugar drop cookies with a warm cinnamon kick, stuffed with a thick date-pecan filling. Each golden bite hides a sweet, nutty surprise inside.

Chewy oatmeal cookies with a thumbprint center filled with spiced apple pie filling, combining wheat germ nuttiness with warm cinnamon sweetness.

Baked pumpkin empanadas with a brandy-laced pastry dough and spiced pumpkin-brown sugar filling, finished with cinnamon sugar. A Mexican-Californian fall dessert pastry.