1,873 mild recipes

Shortcut croissants made without traditional lamination. Cold butter cut into bean-size pieces gives flaky layers, while a long fridge rest develops the buttery, yeasty flavor.

Easy four-ingredient pancakes with milk, butter, flour, and salt. Pantry-bare breakfast batter that cooks in a dry non-stick pan with no eggs and no leavening required.

Cream of potato soup made with diced potatoes, milk, and a unique flour-and-butter riffle thickening for body. A four-ingredient supper that drinks like comfort in a bowl.

Chewy spice cookies are low-fat molasses cookies sweetened with applesauce, scented with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice, then drizzled with lemon icing. Holiday spice cookies without butter or eggs.

A very moist, custardy pumpkin pie spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove. Lightened up with sugar substitute and skim milk for a lighter slice on the Thanksgiving table.

Dave's light pumpkin pie uses artificial sweetener, skim milk, and nonfat evaporated milk for a holiday-classic flavor with significantly less fat and sugar. Thanksgiving dessert you can serve guilt-free.

President Taft pumpkin pie with a souffle-light filling lifted by separated and folded egg whites. A heritage Thanksgiving recipe with brown sugar, allspice, and cinnamon warmth.

Chocolate vanilla chip muffins with melted dark chocolate folded into the batter and white vanilla chips studded throughout, plus chopped pecans for crunch. Bakery-style cocoa muffins ready in under an hour.

Creamy corn-potato soup pureed thick with skim milk, dry milk powder, mustard, garlic, and a touch of honey. Low-fat vegetarian chowder that tastes richer than its calorie count suggests.

Tavern biscuits are a colonial-era American sweet biscuit spiced with nutmeg and mace. Crisp at the edges, tender in the middle, and just sweet enough to serve with tea, coffee, or a glass of cold milk.

Classic homemade pumpkin pie with a from-scratch shortening crust and a custard filling spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and clove. Real evaporated milk and whole eggs, no shortcuts.

Chocolate Twinkie cake with a fluffy homemade cream filling sandwiched between layers of chocolate pudding cake. Uses a box mix for easy baking but the from-scratch filling is where the magic happens.

Oi Naani, traditional Uzbek flatbread made with milk, yeast, and flour. Shaped by hand with decorative stamped centers and raised edges, then egg-washed and baked golden.

Get a powerful start to the day with these delicious and nutritious pancakes.

Brown sugar berry scones with caramel-sweet brown sugar, juicy blueberries, and a tender, big-batch crumb. A no-egg scone that bakes up soft in the middle with lightly crisp edges.

Whoopie pies with soft, cake-like chocolate cookies sandwiching a silky cooked-flour buttercream. The old-fashioned ermine filling stays light and not too sweet. A New England and Pennsylvania Dutch classic.