4,347 vanilla cake recipes

Old-fashioned chocolate cake doughnuts made with buttermilk, melted chocolate, and a pinch of ginger, then deep-fried until crisp outside and tender within.

Pudding brownies made with chocolate pudding mix for an extra fudgy, moist texture. A simple one-bowl brownie recipe with melted butter, eggs, and chopped nuts baked in an 8-inch pan.

Old-fashioned brownies with unsweetened chocolate, butter, pecans, and a simple creamed batter. A vintage one-bowl recipe that bakes in 25 minutes flat.

Old fashioned butterscotch cookies made with melted butter dissolved in brown sugar for pure caramel flavor. A thin, crispy drop cookie with just six pantry staples that bakes in 8 minutes.

Classic rolled sugar cookie cutouts with a tender butter-and-cream dough, sprinkled with red and green colored sugar before baking. Holiday cookie-tin staple.

Mexican cookie rings shaped by hand from a rich egg yolk butter dough, dipped in colorful sprinkles, and baked golden. Festive, buttery, and fun to make with kids.

Checkerboard cookies with alternating chocolate and vanilla dough squares in a striking grid pattern. An impressive slice-and-bake cookie for holiday cookie tins and special occasions.

Date pudding cake with chopped dates and nuts in a light egg batter with barely any flour. Dense, sticky, and caramel-sweet, served warm with ice cream or whipped cream.

Old-fashioned apple cake loaded with sliced apples, walnuts, and cinnamon in a moist oil-based batter. No mixer needed for this rustic 9x13 sheet cake.

Omie's apple torte loaded with chopped apples and nuts in a buttery cinnamon batter. A dense, rustic German-style apple cake that's more fruit than cake in every bite.

Traditional Italian almond biscotti (Biscotti di Prato) baked twice for shattering crunch. No butter, no oil, just flour, eggs, sugar, and whole blanched almonds.

Doctor Bird Cake is a Jamaican-inspired banana and crushed pineapple cake spiced with cinnamon and baked tall in a tube pan. A moist tropical cake also known as hummingbird cake.

Chocolate coconut cake topped with a boiled coconut-coffee-cocoa glaze that soaks into the warm crumb. Simple pantry ingredients for a rich, fudgy everyday cake with tropical coconut finish.

Nut refrigerator cookies (icebox cookies) with brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and chopped nuts. Slice-and-bake dough that chills overnight and yields crisp, buttery cookies with caramel notes.

Drop donuts (no-cut, no-roll) made with buttermilk, eggs, and lemon zest, fried golden and finished with honey and cinnamon. The fastest fried doughnut recipe you'll find.

Lincoln almond cake: a tall white butter cake with chopped blanched almonds folded through, lifted by stiff-beaten egg whites and baked in a bundt pan. Tender, fragrant, snowy-white.