Baked goods recipes

Apple pie with a marshmallow meringue topping. Egg whites whipped with marshmallow creme spread cloud-soft across cinnamon-spiced apples and brown into golden peaks. A retro 1950s twist on classic apple pie.

Toasted almonds ground to powder blend with beaten egg whites and sugar to create these crisp Italian amaretti cookies where lemon zest and almond extract deliver intense flavor in delicate, airy bites.

Baked hush puppies made in mini muffin pans with cornmeal, chopped onion, and black pepper. All the crispy, cornbready flavor of the Southern classic without deep frying.

Christmas cookie slices are old-fashioned icebox cookies: vanilla shortbread dough rolled into logs, chilled, sliced thin, and baked into crisp golden rounds. Make ahead and ready to slice for holiday baking.

Dutch-style crumb apple pie with thinly sliced apples, nutmeg, and a brown sugar butter streusel topping. No top crust needed for this rustic, crumbly pie.

Gingerbread cut-out cookies with molasses, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, plus a homemade egg white decorating frosting. A classic holiday cookie for decorating with kids.

Apple pie flipped upside down so the brown sugar and walnuts melt into a sticky praline-style topping over a flaky double crust. Inverted onto a platter for the reveal.

Warmly spiced buttermilk layer cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. A one-bowl recipe that bakes into two tender layers ready for your favorite frosting.

Terry's turtle cake layers chocolate cake with melted caramel, chocolate chips, and pecans, then tops with more batter for a gooey caramel center. A church potluck classic on a doctored cake mix base.

Blueberry crunch cake bakes a buttermilk cornmeal cake under a crown of fresh blueberries with a cinnamon-sugar crackle on top. Lighter than coffee cake, sweeter than cornbread. The Southern morning cake that disappears fast.

Banana chocolate marble cake swirls melted semi-sweet chocolate into a moist sour cream banana batter, finished with a glossy orange-scented chocolate ganache.

Moist, buttery and chocolaty cake looks so appealing as well. A perfect dessert when you have company coming over.

Focaccia with fresh herbs: a soft, olive-oil-rich Italian flatbread dimpled and scattered with fragrant herbs and flaky kosher salt. An easy bread-machine dough that bakes up golden and chewy.

Chocolate raspberry brownies hide a ribbon of raspberry jam baked into the center of a dense, fudgy walnut brownie. A clever freezing trick suspends the jam mid-batter so every square has a tart raspberry surprise.

Praline cream pie with a graham-praline crust, silky vanilla custard folded with crumbled pecan pralines, and pillowy whipped cream on top. A New Orleans dessert through and through.

Molasses ginger snaps with the classic crackled tops that form as the dough balls melt and spread. Warmly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, these crisp-edged cookies are a holiday baking staple.