Honey sour cream anise cookies bake into pillowy, soft drop cookies with brown sugar, honey, tangy sour cream, and aromatic aniseed. A licorice-scented old-country cookie for big batches.
A rich and decadent banana cake that will test your baking skills but also become your new favorite dessert!
Low-cholesterol oatmeal cookies made with sunflower oil, egg whites, molasses, and whole wheat flour. Warmly spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
A delicious,moist cake with a very unusual icing and a pleasant texture!
This unique sandwich cookie from Gerry Cofta of Milwaukee offers a classic flavor pairing of chocolate and raspberry.
Moustokouloura (Greek wine must cookies) shaped into oval wreaths with olive oil, petimezi, honey, cinnamon, cloves, and orange. A traditional vegan Greek cookie with a crunchy, spiced bite.
Hundred-dollar chocolate cake made with mayonnaise-style salad dressing instead of eggs and butter. Moist, fudgy, and topped with a boiled cocoa frosting.
Sour Cream Banana Cake with Butter Lemon Frosting recipe
Feathery fudge cake: a light, airy two-layer chocolate cake with melted unsweetened chocolate and a creaming-method batter. Tender, fluffy crumb that takes any frosting beautifully.
Date nut raisin bread softened by boiling water over the fruit before mixing, creating a moist, tender quick bread loaded with walnuts and dried fruit. Egg-white-only batter keeps it lighter.
Buttery drop cookies loaded with oats, vanilla milk chips, flaked coconut, and macadamia nuts. Sour cream keeps them soft and chewy. Makes 5 dozen for the holiday cookie swap.
Chocolate Halloween cupcakes with a hidden orange cream cheese center that oozes out when bitten. Spooky fun for the kids and a riff on the classic Black Bottom cupcake.
Light spiced apple cake with nutmeg and ginger, topped with cinnamon-walnut sugar before baking. Cut into rectangles and serve warm or at room temperature for coffee cake perfection.
Every year before my grandkids come over to my place, I usually bake a large batch of these cookies, and everyone loves them. I do however add some chocolate chips to the batter, and they are some great addition.
Wacky cake (Depression-era chocolate cake) made with no eggs, no milk, no butter. Vinegar and baking soda lift it to fluffy chocolate perfection in one pan.
Homemade fig newtons: a tender brown sugar and sour cream cookie dough wrapped around real homemade fig jam, baked in logs and sliced into soft bars. So much better than the boxed kind.