Baked Good Recipes

Iced shapes are simple British cut-out biscuits made from a buttery lemon-scented dough, stamped with cookie cutters and finished with colored icing and sprinkles. A kid-friendly baking project.

Spicy bean cake made with mashed pinto beans, diced apples, raisins, and warm spices like cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Add cocoa for a chocolate version.

Lighter chocolate cheesecake made with low-fat ricotta, yogurt cheese, egg whites, and cocoa powder instead of cream cheese. Topped with fresh strawberries and kiwi.

Heart-shaped chocolate cookies loaded with chocolate chips, topped with melted white chocolate and candied pineapple. A Valentine's Day cookie that's rich, fudgy, and festive.

Individual persimmon pies baked in ramekins with a from-scratch shortening crust, orange liqueur-spiked filling, vanilla ice cream, and caramel drizzle.

Ischler cookies are an Austrian classic from Bad Ischl: ground-almond shortbread rounds sandwiched with raspberry jam and crowned with espresso-spiked chocolate icing. Spa-town pastry royalty.

Jam-filled spice cookies with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves sandwiched with apricot or raspberry preserves. Buttery shortbread-style cutout cookies with a stained-glass window center.

Jam shortbread bars sandwich a layer of cherry or raspberry preserves between two almond-rich shortbread layers. A buttery, almond-scented sliced bar for tea trays and holiday tins.

Jan Hagels are crisp Dutch shortbread cookies spiced with cinnamon and ginger, brushed with egg white, and topped with chopped pecans or walnuts. Sliced into rectangular bars while warm.

Old-fashioned jelly cookies: buttery shortbread rounds sandwiched with red raspberry jelly and dusted in powdered sugar. The kind that gets softer and better as the jelly soaks in.

Jewish-Catholic apple cake with cinnamon-sugar apples layered through an oil-based batter with walnuts and orange juice. A dairy-free tube pan cake that freezes beautifully.

Celebrate the Kentucky Derby with this famous apple pie.

Koala Kookies are buttery walnut shortbread balls dusted in powdered sugar. Five ingredients, no eggs, and a melt-in-your-mouth texture that puts these in the same family as Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes, and Greek kourabiedes.

Kolachky cream cheese dough, the rich, flaky pastry base for these Eastern European cookies. Just flour, butter, cream cheese and egg, chilled overnight, rolled on sugar and filled with prune, apricot, walnut or poppy seed.

Lady Webster's gingerbread made with treacle, brown sugar, ground ginger, and mixed spice in the traditional British style. A dark, sticky, deeply spiced loaf cake that improves with age.

Microwave brownies made from scratch with cocoa powder, ready in about 25 minutes total. Fudgy, chocolatey, and no oven required. Top with nuts or chocolate chips before cooking.