7,302 vanilla extract recipes

Koala Kookies are buttery walnut shortbread balls dusted in powdered sugar. Five ingredients, no eggs, and a melt-in-your-mouth texture that puts these in the same family as Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes, and Greek kourabiedes.

Super easy no-bake cheesecake whips cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, and vanilla into a tangy-sweet filling that sets in the fridge. Four ingredients, a ready crust, and no oven.

Mock shortbread cookies made without butter or sugar, using oil and a sugar substitute for a lighter, diet-friendly take on a tender, golden-edged classic. Simple roll-and-cut rounds in under an hour.

Dark chocolate cheesecake with a velvety, dense crumb and a vanilla cookie crust. Sour cream keeps it tangy and silky, while a low, slow bake gives you a crackless top every time.

Honey fruit soup thickens fruit juice with tapioca, honey, and your choice of fresh, canned, or dried fruit. Scandinavian-style sweet soup, served hot or chilled with sliced banana.

Pears Melba with Bosc pears poached in Marsala and dry wine syrup, served over vanilla ice cream with pureed raspberry sauce. A classic French dessert with elegant simplicity.

Pineapple bread pudding made entirely in the microwave with crushed pineapple, buttery custard, and stale bread cubes. Warm, tropical, and no oven required.

Heath bar cookie bars with crushed toffee candy, pecans, and brown sugar in a streusel-topped batter baked in a pan. A chewy, butterscotch-flavored bar cookie with candy crunch.

No-bake cookie crumble cheesecake sets up creamy in a graham crust with gelatin-bound cream cheese filling, mini chocolate chips, and crushed cookies on top.

Three-layer chocolate almond cake with cocoa buttermilk layers, almond cream filling, and rich chocolate frosting. A showstopper from-scratch layer cake.

Moravian sugar cookies rolled paper-thin and baked until crisp at the edges. Buttermilk keeps the dough tender while an overnight chill makes it rollable to 1/16-inch thickness for that signature wafer-like snap.

Chocolate terrine with cream cheese, milk chocolate, and a hint of amaretto. No baking required. Just chill, slice, and serve this silky make-ahead dessert for 10.

Martha Washington devil's food cake made with unsweetened chocolate and buttermilk for a deeply rich, moist two-layer chocolate cake. A classic from-scratch recipe with old-fashioned technique.

Sigi's chocolate torte: store-bought pound cake layered with a silky chocolate ganache-style icing made in a blender. Four-layer torte ready for the fridge in 30 minutes.

True old-fashioned chocolate fudge cooked to soft ball stage with unsweetened chocolate, milk, and corn syrup. Smooth, creamy, and made the traditional way.

Peanut butter crunchies are soft peanut butter cookies rolled in crushed wheat flakes before baking for a crackly, toasty-crunchy exterior. A retro lunchbox classic with a textural twist.