Baked Good Recipes

Melt-in-your-mouth semolina butter cookies made with ghee, powdered sugar, and orange zest, topped with a whole blanched almond. Baked low and slow for a sandy, crumbly texture.

Mint Moments are melt-in-your-mouth butter cookies with cornstarch for tenderness, rolled in crushed peppermint candy and powdered sugar while still warm.

Drop these easy blue corn dumplings right on top of simmering chili or stew. Five ingredients, 15 minutes of steaming, and you've got fluffy, earthy cornmeal dumplings with a gorgeous color.

Country sponge cake made with six eggs, cake flour, lemon juice, and no butter or oil. Light, airy, and golden brown from a classic tube pan technique.

Dad's favorite beer bread, a no-yeast four-ingredient loaf that stirs together in minutes with self-rising flour and a full can of beer for a crusty, malty homemade bread.

Mama's cherry nut bread: a Bisquick-based quick loaf studded with walnuts and quartered cherries. Five ingredients, mix and bake, no kneading.

Pistachio cheesecake uses instant pudding mix for guaranteed green color and nutty flavor, baked in a graham cracker crust with a glossy sour cream topping. A no-fuss cheesecake that delivers showstopper presentation.

Mint spritz cookies with peppermint extract and green food coloring pressed into festive shapes with a cookie press. A crisp, buttery holiday cookie ready in 30 minutes.

Chocolate peanut butter mousse cake layers a frozen peanut butter mousse triangle with rich chocolate mousse, then drapes the loaf in glossy chocolate glaze. A no-bake show-stopping dinner party dessert.

Mocha swirl pound cake: a buttery, coffee-spiked pound cake batter marbled with melted chocolate and baked in a tube pan. Tight, tender crumb shot through with bittersweet ribbons.

Maple walnut cake made with real maple syrup, buttermilk, and toasted walnuts, topped with a fluffy marshmallow-maple frosting. A two-layer showstopper for fall baking.

Hot fudge pudding cake that makes its own chocolate sauce as it bakes. Bisquick, cocoa, sugar, and hot water create a cakey top over a pool of gooey fudge. No eggs, no butter needed.

Prune Buns are old-fashioned yeasted sweet buns filled with prune preserves - built on an overnight sponge starter and a butter-rich dough, finished with powdered sugar.

Lemon zucchini cookies with walnuts and a tangy lemon glaze drizzled on warm. A soft, cake-like drop cookie that sneaks garden zucchini into a bright, citrusy treat.

Elvis Presley's pound cake with seven eggs, heavy cream, and cake flour started in a cold oven. A dense, buttery Southern pound cake with a velvety crumb and golden crust.

Buttermilk bran muffins with raisins, walnuts, and cinnamon. High-fiber breakfast muffins made with miller's bran, ready in 30 minutes. Big batch makes 12.