Recipes with vanilla extract

Simple chocolate chip cookies made with unsalted butter for pure, buttery flavor. Quick 25-minute recipe yields 24 tender cookies with crispy edges and soft centers.

Classic chocolate chip cookies with a tablespoon of water for soft, chewy centers and crisp golden edges. Half butter, half sugar, plenty of semi-sweet chips. One bowl, no chilling.

Slice-and-bake chocolate walnut cookies built on a flourless-style dough with a pound of melted semi-sweet chocolate, espresso, walnuts, and chocolate chips. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, almost no flour.

Eva's zucchini bread bakes a tender, cinnamon-spiced quick bread loaded with shredded zucchini, walnuts, and optional raisins. Two-loaf recipe perfect for using up a summer garden glut.

Light mini pancakes made with yogurt and egg whites, served with a homemade cornstarch-thickened berry sauce. A leaner brunch stack that doesn't taste like a compromise.

Fudge brownie muffins with cocoa, butter, cinnamon, and optional pecans. Dense brownie texture in handheld portion-controlled muffin form, ready in 40 minutes.

Fudgy chocolate brownies with both unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate plus a hit of sour cream for tang and tenderness. Dense, dark, and bakery-style.

Sugar cookies with a half-shortening half-butter base for crisp edges and tender centers. Pressed flat with a sugar-dipped glass, baked 8 minutes, ready to ice and decorate.

Full of delicious banana flavor, accented with chocolate.

Mom's peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies bake up with chewy centers, crisp edges and pockets of melted chocolate. A bake-and-share batch of 48.

Easy chocolate chip cookies made with shortening for a soft, tender crumb and cookies that hold their shape. Bake them less for chewy, longer for crisp, your call.

Chewy cocoa brownies studded with crunchy nuts combine fudgy chocolate flavor with textural contrast in every bite.

These delicious cookies are a breeze to clean up after because they use only one bowl!

Toasted blanched almonds fold into buttery shortbread dough spiked with Cognac and vanilla, then get dusted with powdered sugar while hot for these melt-away cookies with sophisticated European flair.

Homemade granola with rolled oats, sliced almonds, shredded coconut, wheat germ, and cinnamon, lightly bound with maple syrup and oil. Bakes in 10 minutes flat. Toss in golden raisins or dried cranberries after toasting.

Deep dark chocolate fudge cookies loaded with three forms of chocolate: cocoa, semisweet, and unsweetened. Dense, fudgy interior with optional powdered sugar coating for crackle-top contrast.