4,474 sugar recipes

Cool, refreshing big-batch fruit salad with watermelon, cantaloupe, plums, nectarines, and grapes tossed in chilled mint-lime simple syrup. A summer party showstopper.

Jan Hagels are crisp Dutch shortbread cookies spiced with cinnamon and ginger, brushed with egg white, and topped with chopped pecans or walnuts. Sliced into rectangular bars while warm.

Bisochos (also known as Ka'ak or Crozettes), traditional Sephardic sesame-coated bread rings with anise, fennel, or coriander seed. Crisp, nutty, and dipped in egg before sesame.

Lemon yogurt bread: a tender quick bread loaf made with lemon yogurt and fresh lemon juice. Makes two loaves perfect for gifting, freezing, or weekend breakfast.

Summer fruit salad bowl of nectarines, raspberries, and grapes over crisp iceberg, dressed with a cream cheese sauce thickened with macerated ginger-nectarine juices.

Fresh jalapeno corn muffins fold whole corn kernels, minced jalapeno, and shallot into a buttermilk-cornmeal batter for a sweet-spicy breakfast or chili-side muffin. Freezes beautifully.

Blueberry drop cookies fold fresh blueberries and bright lemon zest into a soft cake-style dough, then bake into pillowy, fruit-studded rounds. A summer cookie that's halfway to a muffin top.

Easy caramel apple pie: classic apple pie shortcut with store-bought crusts, sweet sliced apples, and a hot drizzle of caramel sauce and pecans straight out of the oven.

No-bake date and nut balls combine simmered dates, candied cherries and butter with rice cereal and walnuts, rolled in coconut. A retro Christmas cookie tray classic from the 1950s.

Jack-o-lantern chocolate cake is a rich two-layer chocolate cake decorated for Halloween, with orange-tinted frosting shaping the pumpkin and chocolate frosting piping the spooky grin. A fun family project that tastes as good as it looks.

Applesauce cinnamon bread for the bread machine, with buttermilk for tang and a full tablespoon of cinnamon for serious spice. An eight-ingredient yeast loaf that loads and starts in under 5 minutes.

Riverside kedgeree flakes cooked salmon or trout into brown rice with buttered cucumber matchsticks, watercress, and young peas. Light, modern English riverbank classic for spring or summer.

Santa Maria salsa is the no-cook California barbecue staple: chopped canned tomatoes, celery, onion, and green pepper sharpened with horseradish, vinegar, and Worcestershire. Pour, chill, serve.

Fresh apple cake with macerated apples that release their natural juices into the batter for an extra-moist crumb. Cinnamon, allspice, and chopped nuts in a simple loaf or tube pan. The fall apple cake worth pulling out the bushel.

Freezer pickles preserve cucumbers, celery, bell peppers, cauliflower, and carrots in a sweet vinegar brine. No-cook, no-can pickling method that yields ready-to-eat sweet pickled vegetables. Makes 8 quarts.

Lulen's grated apple pie shreds the apples instead of slicing for a custard-style filling bound with butter, egg, and cinnamon. Topped with pecans for crunch in a single-crust pie.