Baked goods recipes

Italian rainbow cookies with almond paste, three colored layers, apricot jam filling, and chocolate coating. Overnight-pressed cookies that slice into beautiful tricolor squares.

Hornet's Nest Cake mixes yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding, butterscotch chips, and chopped nuts for a dense, rich sheet cake that comes together in minutes.

Breezy brownies made with Hershey's-style chocolate syrup, pecans, and a poured fudge frosting cooked stovetop. Old-fashioned pantry brownies with a glossy chocolate top that sets like candy.

Two layers of chocolate-mint cheesecake on a crushed Thin Mint cookie crust, finished with peppermint chocolate ganache. Girl Scout cookie season just became a year-round affair.

Diabetic raisin cookies sweetened with boiled raisins, chopped dates, and a touch of artificial sweetener instead of sugar. A soft, fruit-forward cookie built for a low-sugar diet.

Microwave chocolate pecan clusters with marshmallows and semi-sweet chips. Five ingredients, no baking, and ready to eat in under an hour. Makes 20 clusters.

Sticky caramel pecan buns with a melted chocolate kiss hiding inside each one. Made with refrigerator biscuit dough for a 4-ingredient shortcut that tastes anything but simple.

Banana ginger cake with 2 teaspoons of ground ginger baked in a 9-inch square pan, topped with spiced whipped cream. A lighter snack cake using margarine and skim milk.

A quick one-bowl blueberry oatmeal breakfast cake that's ready in 35 minutes. Lightly sweet with a tender crumb from the oats, best served warm straight from the pan.

Five-ingredient no-bake cherry cheesecake with cream cheese, whipped topping, graham cracker crust and canned cherry filling. Chill three hours, serve cold.

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.

Rich chocolate spritz cookies pressed through a cookie press into festive shapes. Unsweetened chocolate and shortening create crisp edges with tender centers in just 10 minutes.

Molasses Doughnuts are spiced yeasted doughnuts with cinnamon, ginger, and half a cup of molasses - bread machine dough, deep-fried, and shaken in sugar while still warm.

Barbara Bush's signature chocolate chip cookies with a quirky splash of hot water in the dough that yields a crisp-edged, soft-centered cookie. A small-batch White House classic.

This impossible-style pie makes its own crust from Bisquick batter, gets topped with your choice of blueberry, cherry, or apple pie filling, and finished with a cinnamon-brown sugar streusel. Under an hour, no pie crust skills needed.

Concord grape pie with 3 pounds of fresh grapes, skins and all, baked in a double crust with lemon zest. A fall harvest pie with intense grape flavor you can't get from a jar.