4,474 sugar recipes

Peanut fudge is old-school stovetop chocolate fudge made with milk, corn syrup, and unsweetened chocolate, beaten to the classic soft-ball stage and loaded with salted peanuts.

Molasses ginger snaps with the classic crackled tops that form as the dough balls melt and spread. Warmly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, these crisp-edged cookies are a holiday baking staple.

Doctor Bird Cake is a Jamaican-inspired banana and crushed pineapple cake spiced with cinnamon and baked tall in a tube pan. A moist tropical cake also known as hummingbird cake.

Cream cheese roll: a tender sour-cream yeast dough rolled around cream cheese filling, snipped into a braided pattern, and baked golden. A brunch-ready pastry for any occasion.

Baker's bread in a bag is mixed and kneaded entirely in a zip-top bag, no mixing bowl needed. A kid-friendly intro to yeast bread that bakes into a tender white loaf.

Eggplant a la Provencale layers golden olive-oil-fried eggplant slices under a slow-simmered tomato, garlic, and parsley sauce. A chilled French summer appetizer or salad.

Double chocolate granita with cocoa, semi-sweet chocolate, and warm spices. Italian-style icy frozen dessert that scrapes into chocolate snowflakes.

Lincoln almond cake: a tall white butter cake with chopped blanched almonds folded through, lifted by stiff-beaten egg whites and baked in a bundt pan. Tender, fragrant, snowy-white.

Black bottom cupcakes drop a sweet cream cheese filling studded with chocolate chips into chocolate cake mix batter, baking into a self-frosting cupcake. Travel-friendly picnic dessert with no icing to melt.

Lemony springerle, traditional German embossed cookies stamped from a wooden mold and air-dried overnight before baking. Lemon zest brightens the classic anise.

Pineapple muffin cookies: soft, cake-like drop cookies made with crushed pineapple and juice, warm nutmeg, and chopped walnuts. The tropical-twist church-supper cookie that's part muffin, part cookie.

Raspberry Alaskas tuck fresh raspberries and vanilla ice cream inside crisp puff pastry shells, then cloak the whole thing in glossy meringue and flash it under high heat for a hot-and-cold dessert that hits the table the second it browns.

Apple dump cake layers canned apple pie filling under a butter pecan cake mix and chopped pecans, topped with sliced butter. No mixing required, five-ingredient dessert.

Lebkuchen German Christmas cookies blend honey, molasses, cardamom, and clove into a dense spiced dough rolled and cut into shapes. Family tradition, ages and keeps for months.

Crazy cake (also called wacky cake or depression cake) needs no eggs, no milk, no butter. Mixed straight in the pan with vinegar for chemistry-class lift. A Depression-era favorite.

Marinated cabbage slaw with green pepper, onion, and pimentos in a sweet-tangy vinegar dressing with mustard seeds. Make-ahead picnic salad that keeps for days.