2,123 gold cake recipes

Cookie dough brownies layer a fudgy cocoa brownie with a buttery, eggless cookie-dough frosting and a glossy chocolate glaze. All the taste of raw cookie dough, safely baked into a decadent layered bar.

No-bake chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies with cocoa, sugar, and quick oats. One minute of boiling, no oven needed, and they set up on wax paper in minutes.

Chocolate marshmallow drop cookies topped with a soft melted marshmallow, glossy cocoa icing, and a pecan half. Like a homemade Mallomar in cookie form, made for cookie tins and lunchboxes.

Chocolate-dipped pretzels with white chocolate drizzle. Four-ingredient Christmas treat that comes together in under an hour, no oven required. Salty-sweet, beginner-friendly, gift-tin ready.

Thick homemade pizza sauce with sauteed onion, garlic, and oregano in tomato paste and tomato sauce. Simmers in 10 minutes and freezes beautifully for pizza night anytime.

Mock cherry pie made from halved cranberries and raisins simmered with sugar, vanilla, and butter. The Depression-era trick gives you a tart-sweet ruby filling that fools nearly anyone hunting for the real thing.

Wholesome after-school snack muffins made with raisin bran cereal, whole wheat, and shredded carrot. Lightly sweet, moist, and full of fiber, a kid-friendly muffin for lunchboxes and snack time.

Add a European touch to your Christmas baking skills with these scrumptious snacks made with cream cheese, walnuts and dark rum.

Homemade fried elephant ears: sour-cream and buttermilk dough rolled thin, slit, fried golden, then tumbled in cinnamon sugar. State fair pastry made in your own kitchen.

Chewy almond paste macaroons with crackled tops and tender centers, baked from a homemade four-day-aged paste of blanched almonds and egg whites. The classic Italian-style cookie before the French sandwich version took over.

Easy caramel chocolate sticky buns: a four-ingredient hack using refrigerated biscuits stuffed with chocolate kisses and baked over coconut-pecan frosting that turns into instant caramel when inverted.

Bread machine bagels: six simple ingredients, machine-kneaded dough, boiled then baked golden. Real chewy-crusted New York-style bagels without stand-mixer gymnastics.

No-bake marshmallow candy balls with ground candied cherries and blanched almonds rolled in shredded coconut. A vintage Christmas-tin confection that's chewy, sweet, and oven-free.

Irish cream balls combine crushed vanilla wafers, toasted pecans, cocoa, and Irish cream liqueur into no-bake boozy bites rolled in powdered sugar. The grown-up holiday cookie tray staple.

No-bake Rice Krispie balls combine melted peanut butter and butter with crisp rice cereal and chopped nuts, rolled in powdered sugar. Five ingredients, 15 minutes, zero oven time.

Orange apricot jam muffins with orange juice concentrate, yogurt, and apricot preserves. Bright citrus-fruit notes and a cinnamon-nutmeg crackle top.