Baked Good Recipes

Easy apple bundt cake with cinnamon-layered fresh apples, orange juice, and no eggs or butter. A one-bowl brunch cake that looks impressive with minimal fuss.

Creamy sour cream custard studded with tender Granny Smith apples, topped with buttery cinnamon crumble and served with fluffy ginger whipped cream.

Old-fashioned sour cream cookies with raisins, nuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Soft, cake-like drop cookies made with brown sugar and cake flour for an extra tender crumb.

Sour cream sugar cookies are soft, puffy, and rolled in sugar before flattening and baking. The sour cream keeps these tender for days with a slight tang that balances the sweetness.

Sour cream sugar cakes, soft tender drop cookies made with sour cream and half butter, half shortening. Lightly sugared tops, cake-like crumb, a forgotten heartland classic.

Make-ahead sourdough biscuit batter with buttermilk, self-rising flour, and yeast. Mix once, refrigerate, and bake fresh biscuits anytime you want them.

Sourdough biscuit dough: a refrigerator dough made with yeast and buttermilk that bakes into tender, fluffy biscuits anytime. Improves with age, lasting up to a week in the fridge.

Jalapeno chocolate cream cake with semi-sweet chocolate, Kahlua, ground almonds, and cinnamon. A rich, fudgy, intentionally underbaked cake with a slow jalapeno heat finish.

Sour cream apple pie with a cinnamon-spiced shortbread crust and a buttery walnut streusel top. McIntosh apples bake into a custardy filling that sets up creamy under the crunchy walnut topping.

Special lard-based pastry dough for tourtieres (French-Canadian meat pies). A flaky, tender crust that rolls out easily and handles beautifully. Makes enough for multiple pies.

Spice beer cake loaded with raisins and walnuts, made with brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. Beer adds moisture and malty depth to this old-fashioned tube pan cake.

Spiced applesauce cookies with cinnamon and cloves bake into soft, cake-like drops sweetened with thick unsweetened applesauce. Makes 3 dozen tender old-fashioned cookies in 30 minutes.

Crunchy cornmeal biscotti with hazelnuts, lemon zest, and cinnamon, shaped into fingers and baked until golden. A lighter cookie made with egg whites only.

Spiced pound cake with mace, vanilla, and almond extract baked in a Bundt pan until golden and dense. Powdered sugar in the batter creates an ultra-fine, velvety crumb that melts on your tongue.

Spiced pumpkin bread baked and sealed in mason jars for long-term storage. Cinnamon, cloves, and nuts in a moist, dense loaf that keeps up to a year.

Spiced Pumpkin Bread with Orange Cream Cheese recipe