7,302 vanilla extract recipes

They stay moist, keep beautifully, are the perfect gift or food-bazaar item, and the recipe makes a huge batch.

Chocolate cake made with pureed red beets and melted unsweetened chocolate. Incredibly moist, deepens in flavor overnight, and finished with a simple powdered sugar dusting.

A tender buttermilk pound cake scented with warm nutmeg and vanilla, baked in a tube pan and dusted with powdered sugar. Cake flour gives it a fine, velvety crumb.

Wacky cake style chocolate layer cake made with no eggs, butter, or milk. A pantry-staple Depression-era recipe with deep cocoa flavor and a tender, fudgy crumb that's accidentally vegan.

Gramma's chocolate peanut butter pie layers a creamy peanut butter pudding filling and melted chocolate chips inside a graham cracker crust, then crowns it with toasted meringue.

Old-fashioned white holiday fudge loaded with brazil nuts, pecans, walnuts, candied cherries, and pineapple. A cooked cream fudge that chills overnight and makes over 100 pieces for holiday gift giving.

Mix-in-the-pan chocolate fudge cake with no eggs, no milk, no butter. Poke three holes, pour, stir, and bake. The original depression-era wacky cake that still delivers.

Buttery almond cookies with brown sugar, cream of tartar tang, and chopped almonds throughout. Dough requires chilling before shaping into balls and baking.

A creamy raspberry chocolate pie with cream cheese filling on a pecan vanilla wafer crust sealed with melted chocolate. Topped with jam-glazed berries for a make-ahead chilled dessert.

Chewy oatmeal cookies packed with dates, apples, raisins, and pecans, naturally sweetened by simmered fruit. These keep for days in the fridge and make grab-and-go snacks.

Hot fresh strawberries au sabayon, briefly poached in lemon-vanilla syrup and blanketed in a frothy Marsala egg-yolk zabaglione. A French-Italian restaurant dessert that plates in minutes.

Creamy Southern-style butter pecan cheesecake on a pecan-studded graham cracker crust. Loaded with toasted pecans and sour cream for a rich, velvety texture. From Southern Living.

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.

Chocolate chip ice cream roll: a tender chocolate sponge cake rolled around softened chocolate chip ice cream, frozen firm, and dusted with cocoa. A make-ahead frozen dessert.

An instant favorite, these dessert bars are full of flavor!

Blueberry crumb cake squares from a jelly roll pan with a rich butter batter, a full quart of blueberries, and a cinnamon-nutmeg brown sugar crumb topping. Makes 24 generous squares.