4,347 vanilla cake recipes

Chocolate chip pan cookies bake the classic Toll House dough as one giant sheet, then cut into 24 squares. All the flavor of a chocolate chip cookie with none of the scooping, rotating or batch-baking.

Chocolate chip cookies with a secret in the technique: beat the margarine and sugars until fluffy and pale before anything else joins the bowl. Crisp edges, soft centers, walnut crunch.

Oatmeal cookies rolled in chopped nuts with a chocolate star pressed into each warm center. The classic peanut blossom cookie technique applied to oats.

Impossible cranberry-orange pie forms its own crust as it bakes, with sweet-tart cranberry-orange relish setting beneath a custardy biscuit-mix top layer. A no-roll retro pie for the holidays.

Quick apple bread with chopped unpeeled apples, cinnamon, and a tender shortening-based crumb. A simple weekday loaf that bakes up moist with a hint of orchard sweetness.

Eggless chocolate cake using vinegar and skim milk for tender, moist layers. A wartime-style two-layer cake with a light chocolate whipped frosting. Sixteen servings of nostalgia.

Layered apple kuchen: a tall German-Jewish bundt cake with three batter layers and two ribbons of cinnamon-sugar apples baked in between. The honey cake's apple-loving cousin.

Luscious apricot bars layered over a shortbread crust with a chewy brown sugar topping studded with plump apricots and chopped walnuts. A classic two-layer dessert bar rolled in sugar.

Peanut butter shortbread: round pan-pressed shortbread with peanut butter in the dough and a peanut butter icing topped with melted white chocolate drizzle. Two pan-rounds.

Maple cloud cake: ethereal egg-foam sponge sweetened with pure maple syrup and crowned with whipped maple-meringue icing. A Quebec-Canadian classic, all maple, no refined sugar.

Nutty carob chip cookies sweetened with honey and made with whole wheat flour. Caffeine-free chocolate-chip-cookie alternative for the carob-loving, health-conscious snacker.

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.

Chocolate sour cream muffins with chopped walnuts and marshmallow pieces. Rocky-road inspired chocolate muffins with melty marshmallow pockets.

Classic snickerdoodles rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked until soft-centered with a chewy edge. Cream of tartar gives the signature tang and crackled top. Pantry-staple cookie recipe.

Drop sugar cookies with a soft, crumbly bite from a mix of margarine and oil, two kinds of sugar, and a touch of cream of tartar. No chilling, no rolling, just scoop and bake.

Chocolate raspberry cream torte: a light chocolate wacky cake layered four high with raspberry jam and pink raspberry cream filling. An impressive-looking dessert made with pantry staples and no eggs.