Baked Good recipe collection

Easy cheesy snack bread: a yeasted sheet-pan flatbread loaded with cheddar, green chiles, pimentos, and Italian seasonings. A shareable party appetizer ready in an hour.

Easy peanut butter cake from a doctored cake mix, made extra moist with vanilla pudding and studded with peanuts, then frosted with chocolate-peanut butter frosting. The Reese's-lover's layer cake, no fuss required.

Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies with all brown sugar for chewy depth, four cups of rolled oats, and semi-sweet chocolate chips. A 20-minute one-bowl recipe that yields enough cookies to feed a crowd.

Chocolate syrup cake bakes up moist and rich with a thin batter that turns into a fudgy 9x13 sheet cake. A vintage one-bowl dessert built around a full bottle of chocolate syrup.

Chocolate zucchini bread is a moist, cocoa-rich quick bread that hides shredded zucchini in a tender chocolate crumb. The summer garden trick that turns oversized squash into dessert.

Four-layer coconut cake with coconut cream pudding filling, chopped macadamia nuts, whipped cream frosting, and shredded coconut pressed all over. A showstopper from a cake mix.

Easy German cheesecake brownies: German chocolate cake mix base with cream cheese topping baked into rich layered bars. Cake mix shortcut for sixteen squares.

Easy layered buckeyes with a peanut butter and powdered sugar base topped with melted chocolate, pressed into a pan and cut into squares. All the flavor of buckeye candy without rolling individual balls.

Simple zucchini bread recipe that mixes in one bowl and bakes into three moist loaves. Adapt the base for pumpkin or applesauce variations with warming ginger spice.

Eggnog log cookies are festive holiday rolls flavored with rum and nutmeg, dipped in icing, and rolled in toasted pecans. The Christmas cookie tin classic with eggnog-inspired warmth.

Vegan bran muffins with whole wheat pastry flour, soy milk, applesauce, honey, and raisins. No eggs, no butter, no oil. High fiber and naturally sweetened.

Election Day Loaf is a traditional spiced yeast bread loaded with raisins, walnuts, and candied citron, baked in a tube pan and glazed with orange icing. A historic New England celebration bread.

Elephant ears: Pennsylvania Dutch yeast-dough fritters stretched thin, deep-fried until golden and bubbly, then dusted with powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar. The state fair classic.

Twice-baked chocolate biscotti loaded with Dutch-process cocoa and toasted hazelnuts or walnuts. Crisp, sturdy, and dunkable, with a deep cocoa flavor and no butter or oil. The classic Italian coffee cookie, made dark.

Old English yeasted Christmas cake spiced with cinnamon, coriander, nutmeg, and caraway seeds. A buttery yeast-risen holiday loaf, closer to brioche than to fruitcake.

Traditional English fruitcake loaded with raisins, candied orange and lemon peel, citron, candied cherries, and walnuts. Baked low and slow in a tube pan for over 2 hours.