1,468 vanilla extract recipes

Reduced-fat carrot cake swaps most of the oil for prune purée, then layers three moist spiced cakes with light cream cheese frosting. Toasted walnuts, grated carrots, and crushed pineapple build full carrot cake flavor with less fat.

Eye Love Mom cookies are peanut butter thumbprints filled with raspberry jam and decorated with chocolate eyes and royal icing. Crafty Mother's Day cookies kids can help decorate.

Flaky pastry squares layered with spiced apple filling and crumbly streusel topping, drizzled with vanilla glaze. These hand-held treats bake up golden and taste like portable apple pie.

Tender rolled sugar cookies made with Neufchatel cheese, brown sugar, and butter-nut flavoring. Cut into shapes and decorate with a simple powdered sugar icing. Great for holidays.

Applesauce Walnut Cake with Butter Frosting recipe

These cookies are very tasty and rich, not too sweet, but enough chocolate flavor.

This three-layer coconut cake starts with a yellow cake mix shortcut, then gets loaded with shredded coconut, crunchy walnuts, and a from-scratch cream cheese frosting with toasted golden coconut on top. Ready in about an hour.

Mini pumpkin pie cookie cups with a cream cheese pastry shell, spiced pumpkin filling with rum and vanilla, and a crunchy pecan-brown sugar topping.

Buttermilk chocolate quick bread studded with pecans and maraschino cherries, baked in mini loaf pans and topped with a creamy cherry glaze. A rich, fudgy bread that's more dessert than breakfast.

Toasted nut spice cake with brown sugar meringue baked right on top. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a moist sour milk batter, crowned with a crispy-chewy nut meringue layer that bakes alongside the cake.

Coffee chocolate chip cookies with brewed coffee and finely ground beans in the dough. Topped with a Hershey's Kiss for the perfect mocha bite.

Pumpkin snack cake spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and allspice, made lighter with egg substitute and low-fat milk. Soft, moist, and dusted with powdered sugar.

[Note: Bobby Flay, chef of NYC's Mesa Grill, prepared this dessert for a Meals on Wheels benefit meal at the Frontera Grill in Chicago

Rich chocolate Bundt cake made with Dutch process cocoa, espresso, buttermilk, and five eggs, topped with a glossy bittersweet chocolate glaze. A deeply chocolatey, bakery-quality cake.

Pepsi-Cola cake with broiled peanut butter frosting: a Southern sheet cake made with a cup of Pepsi and melted marshmallows in the batter, topped with a bubbling brown sugar peanut butter frosting toasted under the broiler. Retro comfort baking at its most over-the-top.

Baked French toast stuffed with caramelized bananas, coated in sliced almonds, and topped with a cinnamon-oat streusel. A showstopping brunch dish that serves 6.