2,109 vanilla sugar recipes

Rocky road cheesecake cups with a chocolate wafer crust, cocoa-sour cream filling, mini marshmallows, and chopped almonds. Individual-sized cheesecakes baked in muffin cups.

Lemon and pistachio Italian style biscotti, perfect with tea or coffee.

This winning decorated cookie charmed us with its sophisticated look and pleasing chocolate-pepperminty flavor. It's from Deb Bonfiglio of River Hills.

Traditional Swiss Basel Leckerli: honey-spice cookie bars with cinnamon, cloves, candied peels, kirsch, and almonds under a crackly sugar glaze. Makes 50 to 60 bars that keep for weeks.

It's quite easy to make your own gluten-free muffins using these instructions for a gluten-free flour mix.

Vinson's pecan pie is a classic Southern double-batch recipe with whole pecans, Karo corn syrup heated to blend smooth, eggs, and vanilla. Makes 2 pies for holiday tables.

This lighter chocolate dessert has a bonus because it is also easy to prepare. Plan to make this recipe one day ahead to let the yogurt drain in your refrigerator.

Spiced gingerbread dough shaped into edible bowls over an ovenproof glass mold, with star cutouts around the rim. Use leftover dough for classic Christmas gingerbread cookies.

Moist chocolate zucchini bread with cinnamon, cloves, and chocolate chips sprinkled on top. Makes 2 loaves and is the best way to sneak garden zucchini into a chocolatey treat.

Chocolate pistachio meringue cookies with finely ground pistachios and semi-sweet chocolate folded into stiff egg white peaks. Light, crisp, naturally gluten-free, and just 6 ingredients.

Raspberry truffle trifle layered with sponge cake, homemade custard, raspberry sauce, and chocolate truffle sauce. A showstopping make-ahead dessert for 16.

Fudgy brownies with melted semi-sweet chocolate, sour cream, and chocolate chips folded in. Intentionally underbaked for a dense, gooey center that firms up as it cools.

This recipe, though fussy to make, is attractive and tasty. Cheryl Kaufenberg of Darien said it came from a very old Better Homes & Gardens magazine

Low-fat moist chocolate cake made with egg substitute, dry milk powder, and cocoa. Tender cake-flour crumb. The everyday chocolate cake that won't wreck your day.

Pecan angel pie folds toasty pecans and graham cracker crumbs into stiff meringue, then bakes into a chewy-crisp dessert topped with whipped cream or ice cream. No flour, no fat in the base, just nuts and crumbs holding sweet meringue together.

Peach nutmeg frappe blended with vanilla ice cream, skim milk, and a pinch of nutmeg. A creamy frozen peach milkshake ready in 10 minutes with fresh or frozen peaches.