Baked Good Recipes

Old-fashioned persimmon cake made with ripe persimmon pulp, shortening, eggs, and a simple flour-and-leavening base. A vintage autumn bake from the Hoosier and Appalachian traditions.

Cowboy cookies (hundred cookies) loaded with crisp rice cereal, oats, coconut, and nuts in a chewy brown sugar dough. The classic everything-cookie that bakes 100 to a batch for cookie tin gifting.

Bourbon-soaked raisin and pecan tube cake with a tender buttermilk crumb and warm nutmeg spice. A boozy Southern-style pound cake finished with a brown sugar drizzle.

Traditional Slovak yeast doughnuts enriched with egg yolks, butter, and a hint of lemon rind. Light, pillowy fried dough rooted in Eastern European baking traditions. Makes 36.

Soft pineapple cookies with crushed pineapple and chopped nuts or coconut in a tender, cake-like drop cookie. A tropical twist on the classic cookie jar favorite.

Easy cake mix bundt with lemon Jello and 7-Up for citrus fizz: moist, tender crumb baked in a tube pan, glazed with lemon icing while still warm for sticky-sweet finish.

Moist and delicious chocolate cake is so easy to make, great when you have company to come over.

Simple Southern chess pie filled with chopped apples, butter, and cinnamon. Cream together five basic ingredients, fold in apples, then bake until set with a two-temperature method.

Pennsylvania Dutch shoofly pie filled with chopped apples, molasses, and spiced crumb mixture. The wet filling soaks into buttery crumbs as it bakes. Traditional comfort food with a fruity twist.

A ridiculously easy pineapple cake with crushed pineapple stirred right into the batter, topped with cream cheese icing. No mixer needed. Moist, sweet, and ready in 45 minutes.

Tangy goat cheese replaces cream cheese in this elegant cheesecake with a honey-kissed graham cracker crust and silky sour cream topping. Bright with lemon zest and vanilla, it chills overnight for a make-ahead dessert that wows.

Soft, pillowy homemade burger buns made with bread flour, eggs, butter, and milk. Ready in just over an hour using a bread machine or simple hand kneading. Top with sesame or poppy seeds.

Tropical banana bread with coconut, pineapple, and pineapple yogurt bakes into a moist, island-inspired loaf in your bread machine.

A flourless chocolate mousse cake with a melt-in-your-mouth texture, served with fresh raspberries and mascarpone. Just 6 ingredients and no flour needed for this elegant dessert.

Had this cake in a recent pot-lock, and it was so good. The cake was so moist, and the chili powder worked like a charm with chocolate. I'm glad that I got the recipe, now I can make this delicious cake whenever I feel like to.

Make your own bagels by using this easy and delicious bagel recipe.