8,633 baked good recipes

Chocolate cake made with mashed potatoes for an incredibly moist, dense crumb. Unsweetened chocolate melted in milk and whipped egg whites keep it light.

Three-layer chocolate caramel bars with a fudgy brownie base, gooey pecan caramel topping, and a lacy semi-sweet chocolate drizzle. Makes 54 bars that store beautifully for 10 days. Think homemade turtle candy in cookie bar form.

Sweet roll and doughnut dough is a versatile yeasted sponge that can be fried into glazed doughnuts or baked into soft dinner rolls. Two desserts from one dough.

The surprise? Sauerkraut. Rinsed and squeezed dry, it melts invisibly into this spiced apple cake, adding incredible moisture. With cinnamon, nutmeg, Granny Smith apple, and chopped pecans, nobody will ever guess the secret.

A kosher-for-Passover chocolate fudge torte: a flourless matzo-meal sponge layered with rich chocolate fudge frosting. Dairy-free and parve, rising on whipped egg whites instead of leavening.

Chocolate chips and pecans bake into a rich, gooey filling spiked with bourbon and vanilla for a Southern-style pie that's part chocolate chip cookie, part pecan pie.

Crunchy Italian orange almond biscotti, twice-baked for that signature snap and loaded with toasted almonds and bright orange zest. A no-butter cookie made for dunking in coffee or vin santo.

Chocolate diamond cookies with unsweetened chocolate, pecans, and vanilla. A fudgy, brownie-like holiday cookie baked in one pan and cut into festive diamond shapes.

Soft oatmeal cookies loaded with raisins and chopped nuts, warm with cinnamon and allspice. Old-school drop cookies with chewy centers and crisp golden edges.

Texas-style pecan pie with a secret cornmeal addition for texture, both light and dark corn syrup for depth, and vanilla butternut extract. Gooey, crunchy, and piled with whipped cream.

Nesselrode pudding pie with a rum-spiked custard, whipped egg whites, and Nesselrode mix set in a pie shell and topped with chocolate shavings. A classic, elegant chilled holiday dessert.

Peanut muffins with a hidden jelly surprise: tender peanut-studded muffins baked around a molten pocket of fruit jam and topped with a crunchy peanut sprinkle. PB and J in muffin form, ready in about 45 minutes.

Singing cake, a heritage spice-and-chocolate Bundt loaded with raisins, nuts, strawberry jam, and unsweetened chocolate, in a buttermilk batter lifted by whipped egg whites. Named for the hissing sound it makes baking.

Traditional British pikelets made from a yeasted batter cooked on a hot griddle. Like crumpets without the ring, with a bubbly surface that soaks up butter and honey.

Butter horn pastries with orange marmalade filling, made from a tender yeast dough with cream. Shaped into crescents and baked to a delicate golden brown.

Reese's peanut butter cake stacks two peanut-butter-and-brown-sugar layers with a cream cheese peanut butter filling and a warm pour-over chocolate glaze. The candy bar in cake form.