4,852 sova recipes

Old-fashioned sugar cookies made with butter and oil for a tender, melt-in-your-mouth crumb. Rolled in sugar and pressed flat, these bake up with soft centers and lightly crisp edges. Makes 3 dozen.

Wonderful fruit cookies are lightly sweetened raisin and currant drop cookies made with hot apple juice and nutmeg. A diabetic-friendly, low-sugar cookie with real fruit flavor.

Thyme-fig fruitcake is a rustic, barely-sweet cornmeal cake studded with apple-juice-plumped figs, fragrant thyme and toasted pine nuts. An Italian-style tea cake that leans savory more than sugary.

Pepparkakor, the thin and snappy Swedish spice cookies layered with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg over deep molasses. Sliced from chilled logs and baked crisp. A classic Scandinavian Christmas treat.

Surprise devil's food cake with hidden beets: a deeply rich, moist chocolate cake with cocoa, buttermilk, and grated beets stirred in for extra tenderness. Kids will never guess.

Soft orange juice cookies with fresh OJ in the batter and a tangy orange-glazed top. A vintage church-supper drop cookie with bright citrus flavor in every bite.

Raspberry bran muffins with a hidden teaspoon of raspberry jam baked inside each one. Buttermilk bran batter with a fruity surprise center. Makes 24.

Moist applesauce bread with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a cup of chopped nuts. A simple quick bread loaf that uses pantry staples and bakes in under an hour.

Lighter pound cake made with egg whites instead of whole eggs and buttermilk for a tender crumb. Flavored with vanilla and a hint of mace, no yolks needed.

Honey nugget cookies are chewy, oat-packed drop cookies sweetened with honey and brown sugar, spiced with cinnamon. A vintage church-cookbook recipe that bakes up tender on the inside, lightly crisp at the edges.

Chocolate chip pan cookies bake the classic Toll House dough as one giant sheet, then cut into 24 squares. All the flavor of a chocolate chip cookie with none of the scooping, rotating or batch-baking.

Soft pineapple cookies with crushed pineapple and chopped nuts or coconut in a tender, cake-like drop cookie. A tropical twist on the classic cookie jar favorite.

Rhubarb nut bread with buttermilk, brown sugar, and chopped walnuts, topped with a butter-sugar crumble. A moist quick bread that makes two loaves for sharing or freezing.

Raisin spice drop cookies with plumped raisins, rolled oats, cinnamon, and allspice. The raisin soaking liquid goes right into the batter for concentrated fruit flavor in a soft, chewy cookie.

Mary Jane's brownies melt butter, sugar, and water on the stove, then stir in a full bag of chocolate chips for an intensely fudgy brownie with nuts. So gooey they're best stored in the fridge.

Sour cream sugar cookies are soft, puffy, and rolled in sugar before flattening and baking. The sour cream keeps these tender for days with a slight tang that balances the sweetness.