2,107 bake recipes

Cocanes are old-fashioned butter cookies made with brown sugar, shaped into fingers, and baked in a hot oven. No liquid needed. Just six ingredients, mixed by hand, yielding 2 dozen crumbly, buttery bites.

Homemade pancake batter from scratch with flour, egg, milk, and shortening. Double-sifted dry ingredients make thick, light pancakes every time.

Classic cornbread muffins with yellow cornmeal, lard, and just enough sugar for a lightly sweet crumb. A simple, old-fashioned recipe with six pantry staples.

Old-fashioned breakfast cake with a cinnamon-sugar streusel topping. A simple, not-too-sweet coffee cake made from pantry staples in about 40 minutes.

Bacon cornbread muffins with crispy diced bacon baked right into the batter. A savory, smoky twist on classic cornbread that bakes in just 15 minutes at high heat.

Peppermint pinwheel cookies with mint extract, rolled into red and white (or green) spirals and sliced. A festive holiday cookie that's all about the swirl.

Easy banana cake using a white cake mix, sour cream, and mashed bananas with chopped nuts. A semi-homemade shortcut that bakes up extra moist in two round layers.

Old-fashioned gingersnap cookies with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon, rolled in sugar and baked until crinkly. Oil-based for a chewy center with crisp edges.

Yorkshire parkin made with fine oatmeal, golden syrup, lard, ginger, and mixed spice. A traditional sticky English gingerbread that improves after a few days wrapped in foil.

Savory sausage corn muffins with bulk sausage baked into a cornmeal and flour batter. Golden, hearty breakfast muffins with a slightly sweet, crumbly crumb.

Grandma Thorpe's currant pancakes are griddled rolled biscuit-style pancakes studded with dried currants, buttered hot, and dusted with sugar. A British-Welsh heritage breakfast or tea-time treat.

Savory olive muffins with chopped black olives, grated onion, fresh mint, and olive oil. Greek-style savory muffins for picnics, brunch, or appetizer trays.

Christmas cookie slices are old-fashioned icebox cookies: vanilla shortbread dough rolled into logs, chilled, sliced thin, and baked into crisp golden rounds. Make ahead and ready to slice for holiday baking.

Christmas ornament cookies are sturdy rolled sugar cookies cut into large bauble shapes and pierced with a hanging hole. Bake, decorate, and hang on the tree as edible ornaments or gift tags.

Chocolate layer cake stacks three buttermilk chocolate layers with a warm date-and-nut custard filling, then coats the whole thing in fudge frosting. An old-fashioned three-layer showstopper.

Emily's white cake is a tender, snow-white shortening-based layer cake from the early 1900s, leavened with stiff egg whites for fluff. The dairy-free vintage classic for birthdays and baptisms.