Baked Good Recipes

Tangy lemon drops are tender shortbread slice-and-bake cookies made with butter, cake flour, lemon zest, and a snowy dusting of powdered sugar. Four ingredients, melt-in-your-mouth crumb.

Lemonade cookies made with frozen lemonade concentrate in both the dough and the buttercream frosting. Tangy, buttery drop cookies with a citrus punch.

Giant oatmeal chocolate chip cookies loaded with a full 24 ounces of chips, grated Hershey bar, and optional nuts. A massive batch recipe rolled golf ball-sized for thick, chewy cookies.

Simple cocoa brownies with just 6 ingredients: margarine, cocoa powder, sugar, eggs, flour, and optional nuts. A one-bowl, mix-and-bake brownie recipe ready in 30 minutes.

Tea timers, dainty triangle-cut sour cream cookies rolled in graham cracker crumbs and flecked with orange and pecans. Crisp, lightly sweet little wedges built for an afternoon teacup.

Classic British teatime shortbread cookies with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, and salt. Buttery, crumbly, and pale golden with the traditional fork-pricked tops.

Classic 4-ingredient butter shortbread with a sandy, melt-in-your-mouth crumb. Just butter, sugar, flour, and salt baked to pale gold. The quintessential teatime cookie from Bon Appetit, ready in 30 minutes.

Teddy bear bread shaped from a basic yeast dough with raisin eyes and belly buttons. A fun baking project for kids that makes four adorable bear-shaped loaves.

Soft pumpkin cookies with tofu replacing eggs, spiced with nutmeg and allspice, loaded with raisins and walnuts. An egg-free drop cookie that yields 7 dozen.

Chocolate chip pecan cookies made with golden shortening and brown sugar for a chewy center and crispy edge. Big, bakery-style drop cookies that spread wide and stay soft inside.

Three grain biscuits made with flour, yellow cornmeal, and rolled oats, enriched with sour cream and cold butter. Rustic, crusty, and tender in just 35 minutes.

Three layer pumpkin pie with a spiced pumpkin filling, brown sugar pecan streusel, and a creamy vanilla cream cheese topping. Makes two showstopper pies for Thanksgiving.

Thumbprint buttercream cookies made with brown sugar, egg yolks, and shortening, coated in stiff egg whites and nuts, then filled with buttercream icing after baking.

Classic walnut-crusted thumbprint cookies with tender shortbread base and jewel-toned jelly centers perfect for cookie swaps and holiday gift boxes.

Thyme focaccia made simple with a bread machine: a dimpled, olive-oil-rich flatbread scented with fresh thyme, cracked black pepper and flaky kosher salt. Crisp edges, soft airy middle.

Thyme focaccia and Parmesan focaccia from one batch of dough, hand-kneaded and dimpled, baked golden and crisp-edged. Split it for an herby thyme loaf and a savory Parmesan one, both crusty Italian flatbreads.