Baked Good recipe collection

A proper Irish chocolate cake made with Guinness stout, cocoa, and dark brown sugar, sandwiched with a bright orange buttercream. Rich, malty, and a wee bit boozy.

Peanut butter cup cookies made in mini muffin tins from store-bought cookie dough, with a chocolate peanut butter cup pressed into each warm cookie center. Two ingredients, 30 minutes, 48 cookies.

Truffle-dense chocolate raspberry cheesecake made entirely in the food processor. Semi-sweet chocolate, cream cheese, raspberry liqueur, and hot coffee on a chocolate wafer crust.

Four-ingredient no-bake chocolate butterscotch drops with oats and salted peanuts. Melt, stir, drop, and chill. Makes 30 cookies in about 20 minutes.

Chocolate toffee flan cakes: no-bake dessert with marshmallow cream filling, melted chocolate, whipped topping, and chopped Heath bar crowns. Quick make-ahead party sweet.

Spicy chorizo, smoky chipotles, and melted Cotija and Manchego cheeses broiled on crusty French bread. This open-faced Mexican bread makes game day or weeknight snacking seriously addictive.

A savory quick bread studded with spicy chorizo, cream cheese, Parmesan, and fennel seeds. Slice it warm from the oven for a rich, tender loaf that pairs with soups, stews, or stands on its own.

The cream cheese gives these cookies a smooth texture, while the fruits sparkle and sweeten the flavor.

Rich West Indian Christmas cake soaked in rum and sherry with dried fruits, warm spices, and browning for deep color. Start the fruit a month ahead for a dense, boozy holiday cake worth the wait.

Classic British Christmas fruit cake packed with fruit that will keep without refrigeration until Christmas.

A showpiece Christmas coconut layer cake with tutti-frutti filling loaded with pecans, candied cherries, golden raisins, and coconut, then frosted with almond whipped cream. Holiday baking at its finest.

Scandinavian-style kringle cookies made with hard-boiled egg yolks for an ultra-tender crumb, laced with cinnamon and citrus zest, then brushed with egg white and sprinkled with pistachios.

A three-layer Christmas cream cake with coconut and walnuts in a buttermilk batter, frosted with cream cheese icing studded with chopped maraschino cherries. Southern holiday baking at its prettiest.

Spiced gingerbread dough shaped into edible bowls over an ovenproof glass mold, with star cutouts around the rim. Use leftover dough for classic Christmas gingerbread cookies.

Christmas Lizzies are boozy Southern fruitcake cookies loaded with candied cherries, raisins, dates, pecans, and citrus zest, soaked in whiskey. Make them weeks ahead and drizzle with spirits to age.

A layered no-bake Christmas dessert with a pecan shortbread crust, cream cheese filling, swirled chocolate and vanilla pudding, and whipped topping. Four layers of crowd-pleasing holiday indulgence.