1,232 sugar cook recipes

Three-layer white chocolate cake with chopped pecans, coconut, and a fluffy boiled-sugar coconut icing. Special occasion Southern-style layer cake with cooked seven-minute frosting.

Humdingers are no-bake date balls cooked stovetop with eggs, butter, and sugar, then folded with crispy rice cereal and rolled in coconut. A vintage Southern Christmas treat.

Grandma Sterling's pickled eggs steep hard-boiled eggs in a cider vinegar and sugar brine with fresh-cooked beets for that classic ruby-pink Pennsylvania Dutch color and tangy-sweet bite.

Golden glow pork chops slow cook in a sweet-sour tomato sauce with cling peaches, brown sugar, cinnamon, and cloves. A vintage crockpot recipe with a glossy peach glaze and tender chops.

No-cook butterscotch ice cream beats eggs, brown sugar, milk, butterscotch pudding mix and half-and-half into a custard-style base, then freezes with chopped pecans.

So good chocolate toffee cooks sugar, corn syrup, and cream to soft-ball stage in three additions, then folds in melted unsweetened chocolate for a chewy, fudge-toffee hybrid candy. 64 small squares per batch.

Candied cranberries slow-cooked in sugar syrup over a double boiler, then rolled in sugar until sparkling. A 3-ingredient holiday garnish or sweet snack.

A proper slow-simmered chilli con carne with browned ground beef, beer, fresh tomatoes, kidney beans, and a triple hit of chili peppers. Thickened with cornmeal and cooked low for hours until rich and deeply spiced.

Grandma's butterscotch cream pie features a silky dark brown sugar custard cooked stovetop, poured into a flaky shell and crowned with billowy whipped cream. Old-fashioned pure butterscotch.

Smith College fudge with molasses, brown sugar, and unsweetened chocolate cooked to soft-ball stage. The classic 1900s women's college recipe with deep, rich flavor.

Old-fashioned baked beans cooked low in a sweet, sticky sauce of molasses, brown sugar, and ketchup, then blanketed with bacon and baked until bubbling. A back-porch barbecue side that disappears fast.

Pecan penuche fudge made with dark brown sugar, butter, and milk cooked to firm ball stage. A creamy, caramel-flavored candy with old-fashioned technique.

Pillowy homemade yeast doughnuts cut into sticks, fried golden, and coated in a cooked maple-brown-sugar frosting. Light-as-air maple bars with a rich, fudgy glaze, made from scratch.

Grape marmalade made the old-fashioned way with just grapes and sugar, no added pectin. Slip the skins, simmer the pulp, then cook it down until the syrup sheets off the spoon and sets.

Single-serving microwave apple oatmeal cooked in apple juice with fresh sliced apple, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Ready in 10 minutes with no added sugar needed.

Frying pan cookies cook chopped dates, eggs, butter, and sugar into a sticky caramel, then fold in crisp rice cereal and walnuts before rolling into balls coated in coconut or powdered sugar. A no-bake retro cookie with serious chew.