7,050 vanilla sugar recipes

Homemade pralines and cream ice cream, a Southern custard-based ice cream studded with chunks of homemade buttermilk pralines. Real cooked custard churned with heavy cream for a proper old-fashioned ice cream parlor texture.

Rich chocolate fudge cake with a hidden cream cheese butter cream layer baked right in the middle. Topped with glossy chocolate frosting, this three-layer showstopper serves 16.

Two-egg layer cake with seven-minute frosting: a classic butter-and-milk yellow cake paired with the legendary cloud-like boiled egg-white frosting. Retro Americana baking at its finest.

Rich, fudgy Austrian chocolate balls loaded with chopped nuts and dipped in a glossy chocolate glaze. These bite-sized baked cookies are a European holiday cookie tray staple that disappears fast.

Homemade root beer cake with reduced root beer baked into the batter and a soaking glaze. This from-scratch recipe delivers pure root beer flavor in every tender crumb.

A classic pound cake made without salt or leavening, relying on nine eggs and thorough creaming for its tender, dense crumb. Brightened with fresh lemon juice and vanilla, this low-sodium recipe bakes into a tall, golden beauty in a tube pan.

Walk to school cookies: buttery slice-and-bake shortbread with chopped pecans, dusted with powdered sugar. Make-ahead icebox cookies sturdy enough to survive a backpack and lunchbox.

Grated chocolate folded into airy chiffon cake batter creates a light, tender crumb crowned with rich mocha frosting studded with chocolate flecks.

A scrumptious sweet potato casserole that gets a unique and delicious taste from the chopped pecans it uses.

Rich fudge frosting made by boiling cocoa, sugar, and milk for 2 minutes, then beating in butter and powdered sugar. Glossy, thick, and intensely chocolate.

Apple harvest cake baked in a fluted bundt pan with a half-whole-wheat batter, two cups of chopped apples, and toasted walnuts. Brown sugar and cinnamon drive the flavor, finished with a thin powdered sugar glaze.

A shortcut to New Orleans-style beignets using hot roll mix, sugar, and vanilla. Cut into squares, fried golden, and showered in powdered sugar. Makes 2 dozen.

Texas-style chocolate sheet cake with buttermilk, cocoa, and a hot fudge icing poured over the warm cake. A 30-minute one-bowl chocolate sheet cake that feeds a crowd at potlucks and church suppers.

Sugarplum cookies with dried or candied fruit hidden inside each ball of vanilla sugar cookie dough. Topped with creamy frosting and colored sugar for Christmas cookie trays.

Double-frosted brownies: fudgy chocolate brownies topped with a creamy cooked fondant frosting, then crowned with melted unsweetened chocolate. Three layers, three textures, serious chocolate intensity.

Fudge sheet cake hiding a sweetened cream cheese ribbon through the center, topped with classic powdered-sugar fudge frosting. Two desserts in one pan.