4,347 vanilla cake recipes

Simple pineapple sheet cake topped with whipped cream and vanilla pudding frosting. Moist, fruity, and effortlessly crowd-pleasing for potlucks.

For years I only ate carrot cake with a butter and cream cheese frosting, but I was surprised by this glazed carrot cake. It was actually delicious. I will not mind enjoying a glazed carrot cake any more.

This decadent cake is made with pineapple, chopped nuts and cream cheese.

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.

Mom's pineapple nut loaf with crushed pineapple, golden raisins, and chopped nuts in a simple quick bread batter. A moist, fruity loaf where the pineapple juice activates the baking soda for a tender crumb.

Maple walnut poundcake with a cinnamon walnut streusel swirl and pancake syrup sweetening the batter. A dense, tender tube-pan cake that makes its own maple glaze as the streusel melts during baking.

Pennsylvania Dutch chocolate cake made with boiled chocolate, buttermilk, and baking soda, topped with tangy cream cheese frosting. Rich, dense crumb with old-fashioned charm.

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.

Honey-lavender biscotti with orange zest and dried lavender blossoms baked into a crisp, twice-baked Italian cookie. Fragrant, floral, and built for dipping.

Oatmeal millet muffins with rolled oats softened in boiling water and toasty whole millet for crunch. The morning muffin with two grains, golden tops, and tender, rib-sticking crumb. Freezes well.

Oatmeal snickerdoodles cross a chewy oatmeal cookie with a classic cinnamon-sugar snickerdoodle. Five dozen cookies, ten-minute bake, plenty for the cookie jar or to share.

Old-fashioned chocolate coconut tea cakes with a sour cream crumb and a cinnamon-scented chocolate glaze spread while warm. Twelve dainty cupcakes for afternoon tea or coffee with a friend.

Soft oatmeal cookies loaded with raisins and chopped nuts, warm with cinnamon and allspice. Old-school drop cookies with chewy centers and crisp golden edges.

Sad cake is a dense, chewy brown-sugar cake studded with coconut and nuts, made easy with a baking mix. It sinks in the middle on purpose, baking up gooey and butterscotchy like a giant blondie.

Chewy chocolate chip cookies with powdered oats, grated chocolate bar, and chocolate chips for triple chocolate intensity. A big-batch recipe that makes five dozen.

Coconut raisin bread made with freshly grated coconut, evaporated milk and warm cinnamon. A tender, lightly sweet quick bread that bakes into two golden loaves with chewy raisin pockets throughout.