10,000 sugar recipes

Warm baked blue cheese dip with cream cheese, bacon, garlic, and chives, topped with chopped smoked almonds. The party appetizer everyone fights over the bottom of.

Black chocolate cake made with a boiled chocolate-milk-sugar syrup folded into a simple butter batter. Dense, fudgy, and baked in a single 9x13 pan.

Delaware cream cheese-pineapple pie with a layer of thickened crushed pineapple under a vanilla cream cheese custard, topped with chopped pecans and baked until golden. Two layers of flavor in every slice.

Stove-top candied sweet potatoes simmered in brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and lemon. No oven needed, no marshmallows in sight, perfect for crowded Thanksgiving stoves.

Caramel chocolate pecan pie with a toasted pecan crust (no flour), a melted caramel middle, and a silky chocolate top layer. A no-bake-filling triple-stack indulgence.

Three-ingredient New England cranberry sauce with fresh cranberries, sugar, and water. Homemade cranberry sauce that thickens as it cools, ready in under 30 minutes.

This recipe is a tradition in my husband's Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish Army.

Warm fruit crisp loaded with sliced apples and plump raisins under a crunchy oat-pecan streusel. Soaking the raisins in boiling water keeps them tender. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Edible cake-decorating roses and leaves shaped from a marshmallow-and-powdered-sugar fondant. A budget-friendly alternative to professional gum paste for birthday and wedding cakes.

Old-fashioned jelly cookies: buttery shortbread rounds sandwiched with red raspberry jelly and dusted in powdered sugar. The kind that gets softer and better as the jelly soaks in.

Rum-flamed bananas sauteed in butter with powdered and brown sugar, then ignited with a full cup of rum for a dramatic tableside dessert. Serve over vanilla ice cream.

Monkey bread made with canned buttermilk biscuits tossed in cinnamon sugar and baked in a Bundt pan with a buttery cinnamon glaze. An easy pull-apart treat in about an hour.

Pink lavender lemonade naturally colored with hibiscus flowers or strawberries, infused with fresh lavender leaves. A floral, refreshing summer drink from scratch.

Orange shortbread bars with fresh orange zest and cornstarch for a melt-in-your-mouth sandy texture. Score before baking for clean, even cuts.

Two-ingredient mango cream dip made with cream cheese and mango chutney. A sweet, tangy, and spiced dip that works with fruit, crackers, or as a spread for chicken sandwiches.

If you're tired of the same old sandwich spreads, then try this variation of butter that's made with parsley leaves.