Baked goods recipes

Shortcut bear claw pastries using refrigerated biscuit dough stuffed with cream cheese, orange marmalade, and raisins. Sliced almonds and sugar top each claw for a bakery-style breakfast treat.

Casserole bread: a hearty quick bread baked in a casserole dish with whole wheat, oats, sunflower seeds, and orange zest. No kneading, no yeast required.

Buttery shortbread cookies topped with caramel, coated in melted chocolate, and pressed with chopped pecans. Homemade Turtle-style candy cookies that make a gorgeous gift box treat.

Oh So Good lemon meringue pie cooks the curd in a double boiler for foolproof scorch-free thickening, then crowns with classic French meringue. Bright fresh lemon flavor, no broken curd.

Whole wheat Irish soda bread made with graham flour and tangy buttermilk, no yeast or rising time. Just six pantry staples, a quick knead, and a deep cross scored on top for that signature rustic loaf.

Chocolate coconut pie with a fudgy semi-sweet chocolate filling and flaked coconut, baked in a flaky crust. Like a brownie meets a coconut macaroon meets pecan pie.

Raisin crumb pie layers plump raisins under a cakey batter and a buttery crumb topping in a flaky crust. A heritage Pennsylvania Dutch-style dessert that makes two pies at once.

Chocolate-filled cake roll with a light sponge cake and chocolate pudding filling, dusted with cocoa. A lighter jelly roll dessert made with reduced sugar and skim milk.

Tender cream cheese cookies studded with coconut and apricot preserves for jewel-like drops that bake up golden and soft.

The name of these triple chocolate cookies says it all- or almost. Serve them only to guests who you don't want to have leave- ever!

Peanut butter cup cookies made in mini muffin tins from store-bought cookie dough, with a chocolate peanut butter cup pressed into each warm cookie center. Two ingredients, 30 minutes, 48 cookies.

Triple-chocolate bundt cake with melted chocolate bars, chocolate syrup, and a tender buttermilk crumb. Baked in an angel food pan for a tall, dramatic cake that delivers serious chocolate intensity.

Kolachkes are Polish-American cream cheese cookies: a tender butter-and-cream-cheese dough wrapped around fruit jam, walnut, or sweet cheese filling. Rolled in powdered sugar instead of flour.

Maple-walnut pound cake baked in a tube pan with a cinnamon-walnut streusel layer through the middle and on top. Dense, buttery, and loaded with maple and brown sugar flavor.

Banana double cream pie: blind-baked pastry shell layered with fresh banana slices, silky vanilla pastry cream, and a whipped double cream border. British classic.

Frosted pecan cuplets, bite-sized butter cookies rolled in chopped pecans with a tinted buttercream center. A festive thumbprint cookie for holiday cookie trays.