811 square recipes

A warmly spiced brown sugar cake with chopped prunes, walnuts, and buttermilk baked in a 9-inch square pan. Cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves fill every moist, tender bite. Serve with sour cream or whipped cream.

Layered blueberry dessert with a baked pecan shortbread crust, fluffy cream cheese and whipped topping filling, and glossy blueberry pie filling on top. A potluck favorite that chills in the fridge and slices into neat squares.

Silky peppermint chocolate squares that literally melt on your tongue, made with sugar-free milkcote chocolate coating and dipped for a smooth, snappy shell. Makes 8 dozen candies. A dietetic candy that tastes like pure indulgence.

Traditional British coconut ice with a white and pink layered look. Just sugar, water, desiccated coconut, and vanilla cooked to soft-ball stage and pressed into squares. A classic Christmas sweet that's dead simple to make.

A retro microwave casserole loaded with chunk tuna, shrimp, black olives, and asparagus in creamy mushroom soup with a splash of sherry. Topped with crispy toast squares, this quick seafood bake is ready in 30 minutes.

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.

Chocolate raspberry brownies hide a ribbon of raspberry jam baked into the center of a dense, fudgy walnut brownie. A clever freezing trick suspends the jam mid-batter so every square has a tart raspberry surprise.

Vegetarian kale and potato soup builds a rich stock from kale stems and potato peels, then layers in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, and torn kale leaves. Rustic, zero-waste cooking.

Fragrant cumin-spiced brown rice baked with tender eggplant, sweet bell peppers, and tomatoes in a golden turmeric-ginger sauce, finished with melted cheese.

Texas-style chocolate sheet cake bakes a thin, fudgy buttermilk-cocoa cake in 25 minutes, then gets crowned with warm pecan-laced fudge icing poured straight onto the still-warm surface. Sixteen squares from one 9x13 pan.

Heart cake without a special pan, made by cutting a round layer in half and setting both halves against a square layer to form a heart, then frosting it pink with strawberry frosting. A clever Valentine's trick.

Make-ahead Mexican chicken casserole with corn tortillas, sour cream, green chiles, mushrooms, and sharp cheddar. Refrigerate overnight and bake for an easy crowd-pleaser.

Baked cheesecake with a buttery sugar cookie crumb crust and a creamy cream cheese filling lightened with sour cream, eggs and a touch of cornstarch. Topped with reserved cookie crumbs and baked in a 9-inch square pan.

Rancheros are stuffed burger patties filled with American cheese and Ortega chiles, double-dipped in buttermilk and cornmeal, fried crispy, and topped with an easy-over egg.

Cassata Napoletana layers thin sponge cake with cherry preserves, rich Neapolitan custard, chopped walnuts, and candied fruit. A no-bake Italian celebration cake that chills to set.

Northern Chinese-style beef stir-fry with bok choy, sherry, five-spice, and a honey-soy gravy. A 25-minute wok dinner with real Northern provincial flavors.