134 hidden recipes

Soft buttermilk drop cookies with a sweet date-pecan filling hidden inside. Spiced with cinnamon and baked golden, this big-batch recipe yields up to 6 dozen.

Witch hat Halloween treats made from chocolate cookies, sugar cones, and chocolate frosting with hidden candy inside. A no-bake kids' craft activity with a candy surprise.

Chocolate cookies shaped like peanuts with a sweet peanut butter filling hidden inside. A cocoa dough pinched into peanut shapes and baked low, then rolled in sugar.

No-tomato pasta with Italian sausage, spaghetti squash, mushrooms, and fennel, finished with an egg stirred in carbonara-style. A lighter, brothy pasta dinner with hidden vegetables.

Peanut butter cookies with a hidden chocolate star in the middle, rolled in powdered sugar after baking. The classic surprise cookie that hides a chocolate kiss inside.

Pumpkin pie tunnel cake with a hidden ribbon of pumpkin pie filling baked inside a buttermilk-bran bundt cake. Striking fall dessert with a creamy surprise center.

Whole wheat surprise breakfast puffers with a hidden orange marmalade center, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, sweetened with honey. Bakery-style breakfast muffins ready in 45 minutes.

Chocolate walnut filled cake bakes a cocoa tube cake with a hidden ring of walnut filling running through the middle. Sugar-replacement-friendly tube pan dessert sweetened with fructose for low-sugar baking.

Rich chocolate fudge cake with a hidden cream cheese butter cream layer baked right in the middle. Topped with glossy chocolate frosting, this three-layer showstopper serves 16.

Surprise-center butter cookies with 4 hidden fillings: Andes mints, cherries, chocolate chips, and pecans. Each batch gets its own color-coded icing. A fun holiday baking project.

Chocolate tunnel cake with a hidden cream cheese filling baked inside a chocolate cake mix base. Topped with a glossy chocolate-corn syrup glaze. Semi-homemade and impressive.

Fudgy cocoa brownies with a hidden layer of chocolate mint patties baked right inside. Rich, minty, and makes a big batch of 36 squares from a 9x13 pan.

Quick orange-scented muffins with chopped pecans and a hidden center of sugar-free cherry fruit spread. Made with low-fat baking mix and ready in 45 minutes.

Christmas surprise cookies: brown sugar drop cookies with a hidden jam center and a dusting of sweet coconut on top. A vintage holiday thumbprint for the cookie tin.

Peanut butter king cake cookies shaped in a ring with a hidden chocolate kiss surprise inside one ball. Frosted with purple, green, and gold icing for Mardi Gras.

Chocolate cupcakes with a hidden cream cheese and chocolate chip filling baked right inside. An old-fashioned cocoa batter with vinegar for extra tenderness, topped with crunchy pecans.