Baked Good Recipes

Traditional Cornish saffron cake with real saffron threads, lard, butter, and currants baked in loaf pans. A golden, fragrant British yeasted fruit bread that's worth the overnight wait.

Friendship starter applesauce cake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. A sourdough-style cake with deep apple flavor and optional nuts or raisins.

Cranberry-oatmeal cookies with chopped fresh cranberries, walnuts, warm spices, and a tangy orange icing drizzle. Chewy, tart-sweet, and built for the holiday cookie tin.

Old-fashioned butterscotch cream pie with a deep brown sugar custard, butter and vanilla finish, topped with fresh whipped cream. Classic American pastry-shop dessert from scratch.

Moist Jewish apple cake layers cinnamon-sugared Granny Smith slices into a tube-pan batter made with applesauce and orange juice for an oil-free, dairy-free dessert that stays tender for days.

Sweet potato bread, a soft, golden yeast loaf enriched with mashed sweet potato and eggs and studded with raisins. The sweet potato keeps the crumb moist and tender. A lightly sweet bread, lovely with butter.

Rich milk chocolate cheesecake spiked with Kahlua coffee liqueur on a chocolate-hazelnut-cornflake crust. Silky, boozy, and built for dinner party finishes.

Tender sour cream sheet cake with black walnut flavoring, topped with a quick-cook caramel frosting loaded with chopped nuts. One pan, one hour, and a frosting that comes together on the stovetop.

Cranberry surprise loaf with a hidden cream cheese layer tucked between cranberry-walnut quick bread. Cut it open and the creamy center steals the show.

Spiced pineapple zucchini bread with crushed pineapple, currants, and chopped nuts. Two moist, fragrant loaves for the price of one big mixing bowl. Cinnamon-and-nutmeg classic with a tropical twist.

Chewy, loaded drop cookies hiding shredded zucchini inside a brown sugar batter packed with oats, coconut, raisins, nuts, and butterscotch chips. The zucchini keeps them soft and moist while the mix-ins bring all the crunch and sweetness.

Quick brownies made with biscuit baking mix, cocoa powder, brown sugar, and walnuts. Six ingredients, one bowl, and 35 minutes from start to cut squares.

Polish butter cookies with hard-cooked egg yolks pressed through a sieve for an ultra-tender crumb. Almond and vanilla scented, cut into tiny hearts and stars.

Walnut-stuffed dates wrapped in buttery sour cream cookie dough and brushed with a vanilla glaze. These retro blind date cookies are chewy, nutty, and irresistible.

German chocolate cake layered with gooey melted caramels, chopped pecans, and chocolate chips between two layers of batter. A semi-homemade turtle cake that's sinfully rich and ridiculously easy to make.

Swedish apple cake with cinnamon, cloves, and chopped nuts, baked in a 9x13 pan with a brown sugar crumble topping. A dense, spiced fall cake loaded with fresh apples.