576 milk cake recipes

Chocolate greeting card cake: a moist sour cream chocolate sheet cake ready to decorate with frosting lettering for birthdays, anniversaries, or get-well wishes. Classic, personalizable, and crowd-sized.

Drop cookies loaded with peanut butter, oats, and chopped peanuts. Chewy, hearty cookies with both peanut butter and whole peanut crunch in every bite. Makes 4 dozen.

Wholesome sweet potato cookies made with whole-wheat flour, oats, coconut, wheat germ, and chopped nuts, sweetened with honey and brown sugar. Soft, chewy, and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. Makes 4 dozen.

Reese's peanut butter cake stacks two peanut-butter-and-brown-sugar layers with a cream cheese peanut butter filling and a warm pour-over chocolate glaze. The candy bar in cake form.

Casserole de Santa Fe layers spiced cornmeal cornbread batter with pinto beans, tomato sauce, and cheese for a hearty vegetarian Southwestern bake. Cumin and chili powder built in.

Chewy oatmeal cookies with a thumbprint center filled with spiced apple pie filling, combining wheat germ nuttiness with warm cinnamon sweetness.

Honey-sweetened drop cookies spiked with dark rum and loaded with candied cherries, orange peel, pineapple, golden raisins, and walnuts. All the flavors of fruitcake in a single bite.

Traditional Sicilian fig cookies stuffed with ground figs, dates, raisins, walnuts, and orange, then iced and topped with colored sugar. Makes 10 dozen for the holiday cookie tray.

Moist chocolate oatmeal cake topped with a boiled coconut-pecan frosting. The oats soak in boiling water first, creating an incredibly tender, fudgy crumb.

A rich sour cream chocolate cake with a cocoa fudge filling marbled through the batter, creating "craters" as it bakes. Topped with chopped nuts and a dusting of powdered sugar. One pan, zero fuss.

Old-fashioned oatmeal cake with cinnamon, nuts, and a broiled coconut-brown sugar icing spread on warm. A nostalgic, from-scratch classic worth passing down.

Southern Pepsi-Cola chocolate cake with mini marshmallows baked in, topped with a broiled peanut butter and brown sugar frosting loaded with chopped peanuts.

Homemade chicken pie with a rich thyme-and-nutmeg roux filling loaded with carrots, potatoes, and celery, topped with golden cheddar buttermilk biscuits. From-scratch comfort.

Holiday fruit cake bakes candied pineapple, red and green cherries, golden and dark raisins, pecans, and oats into a nutmeg-mace spiced loaf. Wraps and keeps for weeks.

Cola Cake with Broiled Peanut Butter Frosting recipe

Moist two-layer chocolate cake with a bright orange zest frosting. Boiling water in the batter creates an extra-tender crumb. Drizzle with orange liqueur for special occasions.