Recipes with baking powder

Big white soft sugar cookies with buttermilk, nutmeg, and raisins that stay pale, pillowy, and cakelike. An overnight-chilled batter baked just 5 minutes for the softest cookie you'll ever make.

Susan's Corn Muffins: tender corn muffins enriched with sour cream and butter, studded with Mexicorn and chopped bacon. Savory-sweet, breakfast-ready, makes a dozen.

Fig ginger cake with boiled dried figs, corn syrup, warm spices, and chopped nuts baked in layers and topped with ginger icing. A vintage spice cake with jammy fruit throughout.

Autumn dessert cake, a moist hazelnut and pecan torte topped with juicy plums and brushed with a lime marmalade glaze. Nutty, fruity, and barely any flour, finished with a scatter of almonds.

Spice cake made with amber ale, mixed dried fruit, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. The fruit simmers in beer before baking for a dense, malty, pub-inspired dessert.

Low-fat pumpkin raisin cake made with egg whites, no butter, and pumpkin pie spice. Served with a strained yogurt cream sauce for a lighter fall dessert.

Deliciously moist cupcakes packed with tempting flavors. These go splendidly with a cream cheese frosting!

These scrumptious biscuits are perfect for those small dinner parties with friends!

These cookies with a candy bar center, from Bev Bosveld of Waupun, are packed with coconut.

Vegan pumpkin oat muffins with unique pumpkin topping instead of butter. Egg-free recipe uses soy milk and apple juice for moist, plant-based fall muffins. Dairy-free breakfast.

Chocolate malt cake made with dark beer and unsweetened chocolate for a rich, bittersweet crumb with a glossy semi-sweet chocolate frosting. Porter, stout, or ale all work beautifully in this two-layer showstopper.

Pineapple upside-down muffins crowned with toasted coconut and a sticky pineapple preserve cap. Cinnamon-scented batter, individual portions, no mixer required.

Whole wheat apricot bread sweetened with maple syrup and laced with orange liqueur. Dried apricots and chopped pecans give every slice chewy fruit and satisfying crunch.

Piney Woods hush puppies: Southern cornmeal fritters made with buttermilk for tang, dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and fried golden. Freezable and crisp, the classic fish-fry partner.

Quick apple breakfast bread topped with overlapping cinnamon-sugar apple slices on a biscuit-style raisin dough. No yeast, no rising, baked in 20 minutes flat.

Milky Way candy bar brownies melted right into the batter for chewy chocolate-caramel squares. A clever Halloween candy stash bake with built-in nougat and caramel layers.