Recipes with baking soda

Oatmeal millet muffins with rolled oats softened in boiling water and toasty whole millet for crunch. The morning muffin with two grains, golden tops, and tender, rib-sticking crumb. Freezes well.

Oatmeal snickerdoodles cross a chewy oatmeal cookie with a classic cinnamon-sugar snickerdoodle. Five dozen cookies, ten-minute bake, plenty for the cookie jar or to share.

Lemon refrigerator cookies with fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and chopped nuts. A slice-and-bake icebox cookie with bright citrus flavor that makes 6 dozen from one batch of dough.

Loaded carrot cake with coconut, crushed pineapple, raisins, and nuts in a cinnamon-nutmeg batter. A dense, moist cake topped with cream cheese frosting.

Hush puppy is an old Southern term that originated after the Civil War. People didn't have enough for themselves to eat let alone feed their dogs, so when the old hounds started barking from hunger, they would throw pieces of fried corn bread to them, yelling, 'Shut up, dog! Hush puppy!"

Tender buttermilk scones with wholesome bran flakes, lightly sweetened and golden-baked. From mixing bowl to breakfast table in 30 minutes.

Beet cake with orange cream cheese frosting uses grated fresh beets for a deeply moist, spiced layer cake with a rosy hue. Topped with toasted walnuts, it's a lighter twist on carrot cake.

Meet your chocolatey death with this decadent cake made with unsweetened chocolate and caramels.

Original red velvet cake with old-school ermine frosting: tender buttermilk crumb tinted deep red, finished with the cooked-flour boiled milk icing that came before cream cheese took over.

Devilish marshmallow cookies are chewy chocolate cookies topped with a melted marshmallow half and finished with a glossy chocolate frosting. Three-tier indulgence: cocoa cookie base, gooey marshmallow middle, and rich chocolate top.

Fresh corn in a shatteringly light tempura batter, deep-fried until golden and lacy. Served with tentsuyu dipping sauce and grated daikon for a crisp Japanese-style appetizer.

Chocolate crinkle cookies with a frozen marshmallow surprise hidden inside, rolled in sugar and baked until they just crack. Fudgy, gooey, and fun for holiday baking.

A one-of-a-kind three-layer cake with cranberries, pecans, shredded wheat cereal, and orange zest, topped with orange cream cheese frosting. The name says sorry but every bite says wow.

High-fiber bran muffins loaded with psyllium, pumpkin pie spice, and raisins. Warm, lightly sweet, and ready in 30 minutes. A guilt-free breakfast that actually tastes like a treat.

Light and fluffy banana bran pancakes made in a blender with bran flakes, ripe banana, nutmeg, and buttermilk. A wholesome breakfast that sneaks fiber and fruit into golden, tender pancakes the whole family will love.

Chewy fruit bars packed with apricots, raisins, and crushed pineapple, then dusted with powdered sugar or spread with frosting.