9,650 mild recipes

Creamy macaroni salad with a sweet-tangy dressing of mayonnaise, sweetened condensed milk, and vinegar. Mix, chill overnight, and bring to every cookout all summer long.

A traditional Mexican caramelized milk dessert (leche quemada) made by slowly cooking milk and sugar into a thick, golden custard scented with cinnamon. Just four simple ingredients.

Crispy, lacy fried pastry cups made with a timbale iron and a simple batter of flour, egg, and milk. Fill them sweet or savory for an elegant presentation that looks way harder than it is.

No-bake peppermint cheesecake with crushed candy canes, milk chocolate chunks, and whipped cream on a chocolate wafer crust. Set with gelatin, no oven needed for the filling.

Moist chocolate cake with hot coffee bloomed into the batter for deep cocoa flavor, paired with old-fashioned ermine icing whipped from a cooked flour-milk paste. Vintage two-layer cake done right.

Low-fat cornbread made with applesauce instead of butter and egg whites in place of whole eggs. The preheated pan trick delivers a golden, crispy bottom crust every time.

Apple pie baked in a brown paper bag. Gently steamed results. A favorite for over 25 years.

Classic French creme patissiere made with egg yolks, sugar, milk, and vanilla. The essential pastry cream for tarts, eclairs, cream puffs, and fruit desserts.

A big-batch Dutch oven peach cobbler built for a crowd. Canned peaches simmer in a sweet cornstarch glaze under a lattice of homemade biscuit dough strips. Campfire-ready and feeds up to 18 hungry folks.

Butterscotch fudge: a no-thermometer fudge made with butterscotch chips, marshmallow creme, evaporated milk, and chopped pecans. Cuts into 81 squares for cookie trays and bake sales.

Slow cooker chocolate fondue made with almond chocolate bars, marshmallows, and whipping cream. Set it, stir occasionally, and keep it warm for hours of dipping fruit and cake.

Maple custards baked in a water bath with reduced maple syrup, skim milk, and eggs. A silky, low-fat dessert with concentrated maple flavor, served warm or chilled.

Oreo cookie pound cake with chunks of Oreos folded through a buttery batter and finished with a glossy chocolate glaze. A cookies-and-cream bundt that bakes up dense, moist and tender.

Chocolate mousse tiara cake: a tender chocolate cake baked in a tiara pan, its center crowned with an easy milk chocolate mousse. A bakery-worthy showpiece that starts from a simple cake mix.

Mounds candy bar cake with chocolate cake layers filled with gooey marshmallow-coconut filling and covered in chocolate frosting. A semi-homemade showstopper.

Magic coconut custard pie that makes its own crust while baking. Easy blender dessert with vanilla custard and toasted coconut topping in 50 minutes.