4,878 sopa recipes

Forget rock-hard biscotti that threaten your teeth. This butter-rich Italian cookie bakes up tender enough to eat without dunking, studded with raisins and nuts in every bite.

Half moon cookies with a soft, cake-like buttermilk crumb, frosted half white and half chocolate. The classic upstate New York holiday cookie, also known as a black-and-white.

Savannah crispy wafers made with butter, yogurt, and flour, rolled paper-thin and baked until golden. Top with sugar for sweet or Parmesan for savory. Just 6 ingredients.

A 5-ingredient cornmeal Sally Lunn bread made with buttermilk and sour cream, baked in a pie plate until golden. Tender, tangy, and impossibly easy Southern quick bread.

Big-batch oatmeal cookies with brown sugar and butter, no eggs, no chips. Mash flat with a sugar-dipped glass for crisp-edged, chewy-centered classics. Makes 10 dozen.

Southern corn lightbread made with cornmeal, buttermilk, and a touch of sugar. A dense, slightly sweet cornbread loaf baked in a loaf pan, just like they make it down South.

Old-fashioned drop cookies made with lard, brown sugar, and eggs. Just five ingredients, a big batch of 5 dozen, and that tender crumb only lard can give you.

A light sponge cake rolled with whipped cream, applesauce, and walnuts for an elegant holiday dessert that looks impressive but comes together quickly.

Gather round pound cake: a moist butterscotch-coffee bundt cake with melted butterscotch chips and instant coffee in the batter. The deep amber pound cake that smells like a coffee shop bakery.

Apricot bread made with a full pound of dried apricots cooked in warm spices. Cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg give these two loaves a fragrant, fruit-studded crumb.

Banana Chocolate Cake with molasses-deepened batter and a full cup of chocolate chips, baked in a springform then split into layers for frosting. Richer and more complex than any standard banana cake.

Mrs. Criswell's ginger cookies are old-fashioned molasses and ground ginger rolled cookies glazed with beaten egg and baked in a hot oven. A rustic heirloom farmhouse recipe.

Chocolate Velvet cake made with mayonnaise instead of butter or oil for an extra-moist crumb, topped with a broiled coconut-walnut sauce. The unexpected vintage cake that converts skeptics.

Southern spoonbread with fresh corn kernels, buttermilk, and cornmeal, leavened with beaten egg whites. Puffed, golden, and custardy, served straight from the oven.

A refreshing beverage. But remember sloe gin as the name states works slow.

Sour cream chocolate chip cake: a tender, coffee-cake style cake made with cold-cut butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and a generous cup and a half of chocolate chips. Sinks slightly in the center as it cools.