8,128 vanilla icing recipes

Classic homemade fudge brownies with melted unsweetened chocolate, butter, and chopped pecans. The from-scratch recipe that beats any boxed mix for fudgy texture.

Individual mini chocolate cheesecakes that freeze very well and use simple ingredients. Easy bake in a muffin tin.

Festival sugar cookies: tender cake-flour roll-out cookies that hold any shape, perfect for cutter cookies, icing, and sprinkles. Holiday-tested recipe yielding five dozen.

Saucepan fudge brownies come together in one pot, with no mixer and barely any cleanup. Melt the butter and unsweetened chocolate, stir in the rest right in the pan, and bake fudgy, nutty squares from scratch.

Instead of store-bought granola bars, make your own bars. They can be a yummy snack or a grap-go breakfast.

Godiva brownies: dense, fudgy chocolate squares spiked with chocolate liqueur, instant coffee, and toasted walnuts. The grown-up brownie that lives between dessert and digestif.

Sour cream banana bread bakes up taller, moister, and more tender than the classic. The acid in the sour cream activates baking soda for extra lift, and the fat keeps the crumb soft for days. One bowl, ripe bananas, ready in an hour.

Cheesecake pancakes fold small-curd cottage cheese and vanilla into buttermilk pancake mix for protein-rich, slightly tangy breakfast stacks. Topped with a warm raspberry-lemon zest syrup that mimics cheesecake's classic berry sauce.

Cheesecake brownies marbled with a tangy cream cheese ribbon swirled into a rich cocoa brownie batter. Bake until just set for that perfect fudgy center with a creamy, slightly tart cheesecake layer.

Simple cocoa brownies mixed in one microwave-safe bowl, no melting chocolate required, with a tender crumb and deep chocolate flavor from Dutch-process cocoa.

"A wonderful combination of flavors and the frosting is fantastic."

These brownies are so moist and chocolaty, it's going to impress you!

Two-loaf zucchini nut bread with shredded summer squash squeezed dry, cinnamon-scented batter, and chopped nuts folded throughout. The end-of-summer garden gift loaf.

Moist banana bread swaps butter for applesauce and uses egg whites instead of whole eggs. Low-fat quick bread sweetened by 4 ripe bananas with cinnamon. Freezes up to 2 months.

I added some pureed strawberries and a couple of drops of red food coloring to make the cake pink.

Fudgy carob brownies made with oat flour, honey, and walnuts for a naturally sweetened treat. Gooey centers with cakey edges, these wholesome brownies prove you don't need refined sugar or chocolate to satisfy a craving.