2,235 vanilla extract recipes

Black Forest oatmeal cookies with white and semi-sweet chocolate chunks, maraschino cherries, toasted almonds, and almond extract. A bakery-style drop cookie.

Slice-and-bake vanilla wafer cookies with powdered sugar, butter, and cream of tartar. Make the dough ahead, chill, slice thin, and bake crispy in 10 minutes.

Coconut brownies: chewy chocolate brownies loaded with flaked coconut in the batter and crowned with chocolate chips and walnuts. The fudgy chocolate-coconut bar that beats any candy.

Italian chocolate cookies with cocoa, cinnamon, cold coffee, and grape jelly in the dough. An old-world recipe with no eggs that makes a huge batch of soft, cakey cookies.

Coffee-fig delight is a retro parfait-style dessert: vanilla pudding cooked with chopped dried figs and instant coffee, topped with coffee whipped cream. Easy pantry sweet ready in under an hour.

Praline apple waffle cookies baked right in a waffle iron, with shredded apple, chopped pecans, and a cinnamon-sugar dusting. A two-minute cookie shortcut with crisp patterned edges.

Fat-free pumpkin muffins with grated carrots, raisins, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon. No butter, no oil, just pumpkin puree and eggs holding these light muffins together.

Soft pineapple cookies with crushed pineapple and chopped nuts or coconut in a tender, cake-like drop cookie. A tropical twist on the classic cookie jar favorite.

Marbled chocolate truffles swirl white and dark chocolate ganaches with orange liqueur, then roll into powdered-sugar-dusted balls. An elegant homemade gift that beats any boxed assortment.

Buttery shortbread crust topped with a fluffy almond paste filling, folded egg whites, lemon juice, and flaked coconut. A Dutch bakery classic that yields 50 bars from one pan.

Mexican wedding cakes are always a holiday favorite but this recipe takes it up a notch or two, writes Mary Wilhelm of Sparta.

Spiced Mexican coffee simmered with dark brown sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla. Includes a flambeed Cafe Diablo variation with brandy and Kahlua.

A vintage date bread baked right inside empty beer cans with maple syrup, pecans, and real beer in the batter. Yields perfectly round slices and makes a charming homemade gift.

Creamy vanilla cheesecake bars on a rich chocolate-graham cracker crust. Melted chocolate chips and butter hold the base together while sweetened condensed milk makes the filling impossibly smooth.

Nothing is more Halloween than some delicious and sweet candies apples.

This is ungodly rich. Serve in very small wedges. Even heavy eaters can't eat much at once.