Baked Good recipe collection

Ginger-pear cake: a low-fat bundt cake with shredded pears, crystallized ginger, and whole wheat flour, topped with a ginger yogurt dollop. A healthier dessert for 12 with a surprisingly tender crumb.

Southern buttermilk biscuits baked in a screaming-hot cast iron skillet for crisp golden bottoms and pillowy tender insides. Old-school technique with Crisco, baking soda, and a quick knead.

Banana and pineapple make the bread taste super moist and flavorful. Lots of yumminess and goodness.

Holiday oatmeal chocolate chip cookies studded with semisweet chips and colorful M&Ms in a brown sugar oat dough. Choose chewy or crisp with bake time, perfect for cookie swaps.

Dutch-style icebox spice cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in a brown sugar dough enriched with butter, lard and sour cream. Slice-and-bake rolls keep weeks in the fridge for instant warm cookies.

Make it a jolly festive season with delicious, easy Christmas snacks. Give the gift of a memorable treat.

Homemade soft bread, a puffed flatbread cooked on a griddle then ballooned over an open flame until light and golden. Soft yeast dough that tears into pillowy pieces for scooping up curry.

These flavorful Indian stuffed bread goes deliciously well with chutney and raita, or any Indian main course.

Soft and chewy peanut butter cookies built on all brown sugar (no white) for caramel depth, plus shortening for a tender, almost crumbly texture. Classic crisscross fork press on top.

Italian onion focaccia: a soft yeasted flatbread crowned with buttery sautéed onions and rosemary. Golden, fragrant, and ready to tear and share at the dinner table.

Lemon pecan pie skips corn syrup and uses lemon extract plus juice to brighten a buttery brown sugar custard packed with toasted pecans. The bright twist on Southern pecan pie.

Lemony cranberry cornmeal muffins balance tart fresh cranberries against bright lemon zest in a cornmeal-buttermilk batter, kept light by whipped egg whites and non-fat sour cream.

Light rum balls roll up in 5 minutes from ground walnuts, vanilla wafer crumbs, honey, and rum. No-bake holiday cookies that stash in a tin for over a month and only get better with age.

Moist pumpkin quick bread spiced with cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice, made with canned pumpkin puree. A double-loaf recipe perfect for Thanksgiving and Christmas gift-giving.

Cookies are always popular, try these cookies, enjoy tasty and you will not feel guity.

Cayenne and chocolate make a nice combo in this cookie from Paula Tuchscherer-Jones of Milwaukee; they would provide an interesting complement when plated with more traditional cookies.