289 sugar cook recipes

Spiced meringue cookies with crushed gingersnaps folded into whipped egg whites with cinnamon and ginger. Crisp, airy, and virtually fat-free with a snappy ginger crunch.

Lighter honey vanilla cheesecake made with reduced-fat cream cheese, cottage cheese, and fat-free ricotta on a gingersnap crust. Sweetened with honey instead of sugar and baked with steam for a silky, crack-free top.

Sauerbraten meatballs: cooked beef meatballs simmered in a tangy-sweet German-style gravy thickened with crushed gingersnaps. A 30-minute weeknight riff on the slow-braised classic.

Peanut Butter Bars: shortcut bars built on peanut butter cookie mix, dressed up with crushed peanuts, white sugar glaze, and a chocolate drizzle. Bake-sale ready in 45 minutes.

Elegant individual tiramisu parfaits layered in stemmed glasses with mascarpone Italian meringue, coffee-soaked crumbs, dark rum, and bittersweet chocolate triangles.

A succulent pot roast dish made with red wine vinegar and a variety of other herbs and spices.

Super easy pancakes from a baking mix, an egg, milk, and a touch of sugar, cooked golden and fluffy on a hot griddle. A fast, foolproof breakfast ready in minutes. Stack them with berries and maple syrup.

Diced cooked beets toss with cardamom and fresh mint, then layer with honey-sweetened Greek yogurt for a vibrant Indian raita that's tangy, earthy, and subtly sweet in every spoonful.

Grandma's strawberry freezer jam with mashed berries, sugar, and pectin. A no-cook style jam with bright fresh-fruit flavor that traditional cooked jams can't match.

Red raspberry jam is a no-cook freezer jam made with fresh mashed raspberries, sugar, and powdered pectin. Captures summer berry flavor with bright, fresh color that cooked jam cannot touch.

Microwave cherry preserves cook fresh pitted cherries with sugar, lemon, pectin, and a whisper of almond extract entirely in the microwave. Glossy, ruby-red preserves in 20 minutes of cook time. Small-batch canning made simple.

The Kaufmans' apple butter, a slow-cooked spread made from cooking apples, reduced apple cider, and sugar simmered for hours into a deep, glossy spread. The Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse classic, ready for water-bath canning.

Strawberry yogurt ice cream with just four ingredients: pureed strawberries, sugar, yogurt, and whipped egg white. Lighter, tangy, no-cook summer treat.

Raw cranberry-orange relish sweetened with sugar and spiked with whiskey at the last minute. Bold Thanksgiving condiment with zero cooking.

Orange, lemon, and grapefruit marmalade slow-cooks three citrus fruits with sugar into a glossy bittersweet preserve. British-style marmalade with no commercial pectin needed.

Cooked strawberry jam recipe uses fresh berries, dry pectin, lemon juice, and sugar for shelf-stable jars. Classic 4-minute rolling boil method, no fail.