Baked Good Recipes

Spiced pumpkin layer cake built on yellow cake mix with pumpkin, walnuts, orange zest, and pumpkin pie spice, finished with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. A semi-homemade fall dessert with bakery-level results.

Bachelor's Buttons are old-fashioned drop cookies with a buttery vanilla dough topped with half a cherry before baking. Crisp edges, soft centers, and adorable enough for a cookie tray or holiday tin.

Layer cookies with a buttery shortbread base topped with a crisp brown sugar meringue and chopped nuts. The egg yolks go in the bottom layer, the whites become the chewy topping.

Old-fashioned shortening pie crust with just four ingredients. This no-fuss pastry dough cuts together fast, rolls out easy, and bakes up tender and flaky every time.

Scottish potato scones made with just mashed potatoes, whole wheat flour, and salt. Three ingredients baked at high heat for crisp, golden flatbreads.

Soft orange drop cookies made with frozen orange juice concentrate and powdered sugar, topped with a bright orange frosting. A retro citrus cookie with a tender bite and clean orange flavor.

Popular on the West Coast, these thick, soft, nut and date cookies appear in many local cookbooks.

Company apple pie is a three-pie batch showstopper with a sugar crust, lemony apple filling, caramel sauce stripes, cream cheese topping, and chopped walnuts. Built to feed a crowd.

Lime mousse pie is a frozen dessert of tangy lime mousse over rum-brushed angel food cake. Creamy, tart, and cloud-light, a refreshing year-round finish.

Frozen chocolate souffle cake: a flourless cocoa meringue base topped with rum-whipped cream and chocolate chips, chilled overnight, then served straight from the freezer. Airy, rich, unusual.

Spells & Bells are festive Christmas cookies cut into holiday shapes and deep fried until golden and puffed, then served plain, sugared or glazed. A cream-rich fried dough that's crisp outside and tender within.

Flowerpot banana bread: classic banana walnut bread baked in a clay flowerpot in a slow cooker for an unusual conversation-piece presentation. Rustic gift idea with a 1970s charm.

Magic lemon meringue pie thickens sweetened condensed milk with fresh lemon juice and zest, then bakes under a billowing meringue cap. Tart, creamy, and ready in under an hour.

Chocolate chip sandwich cookies with a marshmallow cream and powdered sugar filling. Three ingredients, refrigerated cookie dough shortcut, and you're done in under an hour. A kid-friendly bake-sale winner.

Oatmeal orange cookies with rolled oats, cinnamon, and chopped orange pamelas (pomelo) mixed into brown sugar cookie dough. Chewy citrus-spiced drop cookies.

Flourless raspberry truffle cake made with a full pound of melted chocolate, whipped egg whites, and butter. Topped with sweetened cream, fresh raspberries, and chocolate curls.