10,000 sugar recipes

Old-fashioned honey-sweetened oatmeal sandwich cookies filled with a homemade raisin, orange, and lemon fruit filling. A nostalgic farmhouse recipe that yields 4 dozen.

Peanut butter cookie pops: rolled-and-cut peanut butter cookies finished with chocolate dip or sandwiched around peanut butter filling. Versatile cookie base that turns into whatever shape your cookie cutters suggest.

Silky white chocolate cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust with a raspberry puree swirled through the filling and spooned on top. A gorgeous, berry-marbled stunner.

Torta Divina is a rich Italian flourless chocolate cake laced with Cointreau, baked in a water bath, and finished with whipped cream and fresh raspberries. Gluten-free by nature.

Swedish butter cookies are slice-and-bake shortbread topped with browned butter frosting. Five ingredients in the dough, nutty caramelized butter on top, and the kind of crisp-edge melt that makes Christmas cookie tins worth opening.

Old-fashioned lemon meringue pie made with bread: a Depression-era thrift recipe that uses water-soaked bread as the thickener. Bright lemon, fluffy meringue, and pure pantry ingenuity in a baked pie shell.

Macerated strawberries spooned into sherbet dishes and draped with a brandy-kissed yogurt cream, then scattered with sliced almonds and chocolate shavings. An Italian no-cook dessert ready in 30 minutes.

Espresso nut cookies with a slice-and-bake shortcut. Buttery dough loaded with real espresso and chopped pecans or walnuts, chilled and sliced thin for crisp, coffee-scented edges.

Cocoa dough shaped into long rolls, baked, then sliced on the diagonal into elegant strip cookies loaded with chocolate chips. Drizzle with melted white or dark chocolate for a bakery finish.

Buttery orange poppy seed loaf cake with a citrus glaze. No leavener needed as five eggs provide all the lift. Best after ripening 1-2 days for deeper orange flavor.

Lemon quick bread with fresh lemon zest and chopped nuts, finished with a tart lemon glaze soaked in while still hot. Bright, tender, and easy to make.

Raspberry chiffon pie with a light, airy gelatin filling and a buttery toasted oat crust. Fluffy beaten egg whites give it a mousse-like texture.

Lemon cream meringue pie with a zest-infused custard filling, blind-baked flaky crust, and Swiss meringue topping broiled golden. A from-scratch lemon pie done right.

Whole wheat aebleskivers are spherical Danish pancakes cooked in a special cast-iron pan, with whipped egg whites folded into a buttermilk batter. Tender, golden, and built for jam, syrup, or fruit fillings.

Marble cheesecake swirls dark chocolate batter through a classic vanilla cream cheese filling on a graham cracker crust. A two-tone showstopper baked in a springform pan.

Impressive braided bread loaves filled with cinnamon apples and topped with streusel and almonds. Made with thawed frozen dough for easy preparation. The ladder shape shows off the pretty filling.