1,321 vanilla sugar recipes

Just good cookies live up to their name with peanut butter, oats, and chocolate chips in one chewy package. The kind of pantry-clean-out cookie that takes optional add-ins (coconut, raisins, peanuts) without missing a beat.

Fudge-pecan pie with bittersweet chocolate melted into a buttery corn syrup filling and loaded with chopped pecans. A holiday-table classic that splits the difference between Southern pecan pie and dense chocolate fudge.

Honey crunch pecan pie: classic pecan pie with a bourbon-laced custard filling topped with caramelized honey-pecan brittle. Two-stage pie that turns Thanksgiving pecan into a showstopper.

Eva's zucchini bread bakes a tender, cinnamon-spiced quick bread loaded with shredded zucchini, walnuts, and optional raisins. Two-loaf recipe perfect for using up a summer garden glut.

Chewy double chocolate cookies combine a fudgy cocoa dough with semi-sweet chocolate chips for soft, dark, brownie-textured cookies. Bake just 8 to 9 minutes for the chewiest center.

Oatmeal pecan pie deepens the classic with toasted oats and pecans in a honey custard, all baked in a rum-spiked oat crust. A nuttier, less cloying twist on pecan pie with a hint of black pepper.

Chocolate chip banana nut bread blends mashed ripe bananas with buttermilk into a tender quick bread loaded with mini chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Two loaves from one bowl, perfect for freezing.

Nancy Reagan's pumpkin pecan pie marries two Thanksgiving favorites in one shell. A pumpkin custard sweetened with dark corn syrup hides under a layer of toasty pecans. Holiday pie that ends every debate over which to bake.

All-Season Quick Bread or Muffins: a flexible whole-wheat base recipe with six fruit and vegetable options (banana, zucchini, carrot, apple, orange, tomato). Loaves or muffins.

No sophisticated baking skills are required to make this super fruity and delicious galette. Slice up the plums and strawberries, roughly roll the dough into a round, placed the fruits over the dough, rustically fold the edges around the fruits. How simple is that, and it tastes absolutely delicious!

Gourmet chocolate chip cookies use both light and dark brown sugar with optional ground coriander for warm depth. Big quarter-cup-sized cookies with semi-sweet chips and walnuts. Makes 3 dozen.

Lower-fat chewy oatmeal raisin cookies use applesauce and egg whites in place of butter and yolks. Spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, ready in 40 minutes. Drop cookie or 9x13 bar pan option.

Soft pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with cinnamon and a tender, cake-like crumb. A fall favorite that turns one cup of pumpkin puree into 36 chewy, spiced cookies.

Glazed plum bundt cake with chopped fresh plums, walnuts, cinnamon, and a warm brown sugar glaze. A late-summer fruit cake with juicy plum pockets and a tender, oil-based crumb.

Grandma's oatmeal cookies plump raisins in baking-soda water, then fold them into a buttermilk-spiced oat dough with walnuts. Five-plus dozen warm-spiced cookies for the cookie jar.

Chocolate banana bread for the bread machine folds mashed ripe banana, cocoa powder, and warm cinnamon into a yeasted loaf with optional walnuts. A toaster-friendly sandwich bread with the soul of a banana muffin.