8,888 baked good recipes

Persimmon cookies loaded with 2 cups of fresh persimmon pulp, raisins, chopped nuts, and warm spices. A soft, cake-like drop cookie that puts fall's most underused fruit to work.

Glazed coconut tube cake soaked in hot coconut sugar syrup for 4 hours. Buttermilk batter with flaked coconut, chopped nuts, and a double dose of coconut flavoring.

Rocky road cookies are fudgy chocolate drop cookies studded with chocolate chips and chopped nuts, each topped with a melty mini marshmallow. Bakery-style cookies in 8 minutes per tray.

Three layers of deep chocolate cake get brushed with vanilla sugar glaze while hot, then stacked with mocha buttercream icing spiked with coffee and cocoa.

No-bake pumpkin patch pie with orange sherbet, whipped topping, and chopped Oreos in a chocolate cookie crust. A frozen Halloween dessert kids decorate themselves with candy pumpkins.

Old-fashioned spoon bread made with cornmeal, scalded milk, butter, and separated eggs for a souffle-like rise. Serve it hot with butter before it falls.

Chocolate sour cream cake built on melted unsweetened chocolate, brown sugar, and a finishing splash of boiling water that blooms the cocoa into deep, fudgy darkness. Tender, moist, old-school layer cake at its honest best.

Three-layer moist chocolate cake with whipped egg whites folded into the batter for an airy crumb. Filled and frosted with mocha frosting for a classic from-scratch celebration cake.

Golden spoon bread with sharp cheddar cheese folded into a souffle-like cornmeal batter with beaten egg whites. Served piping hot from the casserole with butter and maple syrup. Half bread, half souffle, all comfort.

Chocolate lover's cake with four thin layers of sour cream chocolate cake sandwiched with fudge frosting and topped with chopped pecans. Bare sides show off the dramatic layered interior.

Better than sex cake is a four-layer chocolate-pecan icebox dessert: a buttery pecan shortbread crust, sweet cream cheese, chocolate pudding, and whipped topping. A make-ahead potluck legend.

You will enjoy the taste of these scrumptious cookies that combine two of the richest flavors in baking: chocolate and peanut butter.

Light orange sponge cake rolled with orange marmalade filling, dusted with confectioners sugar. No butter or oil, just eggs, cake flour, and orange zest.

No-bake lemon cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling set with lemon gelatin, and folded whipped topping. Light, tangy, and ready after a few hours in the fridge.

Microwave pineapple upside-down cake made with yellow cake mix, pineapple tidbits, brown sugar, and maraschino cherries. Ready in 30 minutes with no oven needed.

Apple pie with a coconut walnut crunch topping that bakes up golden and crispy. Cinnamon-spiced apples nestled in a flaky crust with a buttery streusel loaded with shredded coconut and chopped walnuts.