Recipe Sifter

Classic buttermilk pancakes from scratch with a tender, fluffy texture and golden edges. Eight pantry ingredients, ready in 20 minutes for weekend breakfast or weeknight dinner.

Skinny chocolate cupcakes: deep, fudgy cocoa cupcakes made with pureed prunes instead of butter. Weight Watchers-friendly, lightning fast, and surprisingly rich. No one will guess the secret.

Orange and ginger cookies: soft-centered molasses cookies with fresh orange zest and ground ginger, rolled in citrus-sugar before baking. Holiday classic with bright modern twist.

Cornmeal waffles fold beaten egg whites into a yellow cornmeal batter for crisp-edged, tender-centered Southern-style waffles. A 20-minute breakfast that holds up to maple syrup, butter, or fresh fruit.

Dense, fudgy brownies with melted chocolate and cocoa in the batter plus mini chocolate chips throughout. Made with just one egg and canola oil for an intensely chocolatey, chewy center.

Spice cookies with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and clove rolled and cut into festive shapes. The perfect Christmas cookie for decorating with royal icing.

Lighter peanut butter cookies that bake in 7 minutes flat. Reduced-fat peanut butter, a tablespoon of oil instead of a stick of butter, and a sugar-rolled crackle top. Tender, chewy, lower in fat than the classic.

Chocolate chip cookies upgraded with wheat germ, walnuts, coconut, and a butter-shortening combo for the chewiest centers and crispiest edges. A loaded everything-cookie that hides nutrition behind chocolate.

Breakfast whole wheat banana muffins combine ripe mashed bananas, whole wheat flour, and warm cinnamon for a hearty, fiber-rich morning bake with a golden top and a moist, tender crumb.

Chocolate chip banana nut bread blends mashed ripe bananas with buttermilk into a tender quick bread loaded with mini chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Two loaves from one bowl, perfect for freezing.

Chocolate whoopie pies sandwiched with a fluffy peanut butter filling made the classic cooked-flour-and-milk way, for that bakery-style, marshmallow-soft texture.

Dense fudge brownies with a half pound of unsweetened chocolate, chocolate chip top, and a hit of instant coffee crystals to deepen the chocolate flavor. Baked low and slow.

Buttermilk-optional pancakes with a tender, fluffy crumb from a quick batter you can mix in one bowl. Seven pantry ingredients, ready in 20 minutes for a no-fuss breakfast.

Low-cal brownies: a quick blender batter that swaps applesauce for butter and a sugar substitute for sugar, baked into a light chocolate fix. A guilt-free brownie ready in about 30 minutes.

Double apple muffins use both apple juice and chopped fresh apple in a brown-sugar batter, then finish with cinnamon sugar tops. Tender, fruit-loaded breakfast muffins ready in 35 minutes.

Nutmeg snack muffins with a tender quick-bread crumb and a generous teaspoon of nutmeg for warm, donut-like spice. The pantry-staple muffin that's barely sweet and ready in 45 minutes.