Baked Good Recipes

Easy popovers use just four pantry ingredients: milk, flour, eggs, and salt. Hollow, golden-domed rolls with a crisp shell and tender interior. Bake in muffin cups, serve hot with cinnamon sugar.

Egg shortbread cookies with a tender, crumbly texture from butter, sugar, and a whole egg. Blind-baked with pie weights for an even, golden result. Simple 5-ingredient recipe.

Eggnog thumbprint cookies filled with rum-spiked buttercream and dusted with nutmeg. A buttery shortbread base with a creamy holiday filling. Perfect for Christmas cookie tins.

Election Day cake, a historic New England yeast-raised spice cake studded with raisins, citron and nuts, warmed with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and mace, and glazed with confectioners' sugar. A colonial American tradition.

Espresso nut cookies with a slice-and-bake shortcut. Buttery dough loaded with real espresso and chopped pecans or walnuts, chilled and sliced thin for crisp, coffee-scented edges.

Espresso-hazelnut shortbread cookies with real coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, and cold butter baked low and slow. Sandy, crumbly, and deeply aromatic with a bold coffee bite.

Danish chocolate shortbread cookies shaped into finger-thick ropes, filled with raspberry preserves, and drizzled with melted chocolate. An elegant holiday cookie with a buttery cocoa base.

The classic Kentucky Hot Brown: open-faced turkey-or-chicken sandwich smothered in cheesy Mornay sauce, topped with bacon, broiled until bubbly. A Louisville Brown Hotel original from 1926.

Fattigmann, a traditional Norwegian fried cookie flavored with cardamom, lemon zest, and brandy. Diamond-shaped, paper-thin, and dusted with sugar.

Fave dolci, Italian almond cookies shaped like fava beans with ground almonds, orange flower water, lemon zest, and cinnamon. A traditional Southern Italian sweet.

Classic butter cookies with a hint of orange juice and vanilla, rolled and cut into shapes, then topped with a creamy buttercream frosting. A versatile holiday cookie perfect for decorating.

Classic cake doughnuts spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, rolled, cut, and fried golden in hot oil. Old-fashioned cake donuts ready in 30 minutes, served plain, sugared, or frosted.

Vienna crescents are flaky yeast-leavened butter cookies filled with sweet pecan meringue and shaped into delicate crescents. A traditional Christmas cookie from Austrian and Hungarian baking.

Silky coconut custard filling topped with billowy meringue in this retro diner-style pie. The secret is scalded milk for ultra-smooth texture that sets perfectly after chilling.

Crazy cake, also known as wacky cake, is an egg-free and dairy-free chocolate sheet cake made with vinegar and oil. Depression-era one-pan recipe that bakes in 35 minutes.

Fruit custard pie pours a silky scalded-milk custard into a pastry shell, then tops it with fresh berries that sink and bake into pockets of jammy fruit. A simple British-style dessert with six pantry ingredients.