1,469 vanilla icing recipes

Southern sweet potato pie with mashed sweet potatoes, warm spices, and a brightening splash of fresh lemon or orange juice. Pecan halves on top add Southern charm. The two-stage bake delivers a custard that sets without cracking.

Zesty fig and date pastry bars with walnuts, orange juice, and lemon zest on a buttery shortbread crust with a crisscross lattice top. A bright, old-school cookie bar.

Hazelnut double chunk cookies with toasted hazelnuts, chopped semi-sweet and white chocolate, and a splash of Frangelico. Half the nuts are ground into a paste that makes the dough incredibly rich and nutty.

Loaded oatmeal cookies with raisins, coconut, nuts, and a touch of molasses for deep flavor. Classic kitchen-sink drop cookies that make 3 dozen for cookie jars and lunchboxes.

Rich chocolate layer cake with cocoa, hot coffee, and a hint of almond extract. Colette's recipe bakes into two moist 9-inch layers that are begging for your favorite frosting.

Invisible oatmeal cookies: small, soft drop cookies packed with raisins, chopped dates, pecans, warm cinnamon, and nutmeg. Called "invisible" because they disappear from the cookie jar fast.

Midnight cake with Dutch-process cocoa, buttermilk, and oil for a dark, tender crumb. Filled with raspberry jam and frosted with whipped chocolate cream.

Double-crust pear pie with apple pie spice, brown sugar, and vanilla, brushed with a milk glaze and baked using a high-then-low oven method for a flaky, golden crust.

Mayonnaise spice cake with raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and chopped nuts. No eggs or butter needed. The mayo keeps this old-fashioned cake incredibly moist with a tender, spiced crumb.

Healthier apple pie packed with granola and raisins for texture, using less sugar than traditional recipes. Tart apples get spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla. Optional lattice top.

Chocadamia coconut delights pack cocoa, buttery macadamia nuts, and shredded coconut into tender chocolate drop cookies. A tropical spin on a bakery-case chocolate cookie.

Chocolaty double cruncher cookies with rolled oats, crushed corn flakes, coconut, and a chocolate filling. A crunchy sandwich cookie with triple texture.

Official Government Chocolate Chip Cookie Units recipe

Sour cream coffee cake with cinnamon-pecan ribbon: a tender bundt cake with a hidden middle layer of cinnamon-sugar-nut crunch. The brunch table classic that tastes even better the next day.

Fudgy, intensely chocolatey brownies made with both semisweet and unsweetened chocolate, two sticks of butter, and chopped walnuts. Rich, dense, and slightly underbaked for gooey centers.

Sesame seed cookies are an Italian-American holiday classic with a tender shortbread-like dough rolled in toasted sesame seeds before baking. Massive batch (240 cookies) for cookie tins.