400 vanilla cake recipes

This lighter chocolate dessert has a bonus because it is also easy to prepare. Plan to make this recipe one day ahead to let the yogurt drain in your refrigerator.

Filled molasses cookies are old-fashioned sandwich cookies with rolled molasses dough hugging a sweet cooked date filling. A Depression-era cookie jar staple with deep flavor.

This pie is super delicious and it is always a big hit at our family gathering dinner.

Golden saffron cake with rose water and pistachios, soaked in vanilla sugar syrup and cut into diamonds like baklava. A fragrant Middle Eastern-inspired low-fat dessert.

Double cappuccino heaven is a mocha angel food cake bursting with espresso and cocoa, finished with a fluffy marshmallow frosting. Fat-free, light as a cloud, and rich in coffee flavor.

Two-layer diabetic-friendly brownies with an unsweetened coconut bottom and a chocolate top, made with sugar substitute. Low-fat, mailable, and perfectly portioned into 32 small bars from one 8-inch pan.

Chocolate peppermint pinwheel torte with crushed candy cane filling and whipped cream frosting. Stunning Christmas dessert made from a cake roll cut into spirals.

Espresso cake is a coffee-infused angel food cake: 12 whipped egg whites, cake flour, and espresso baked in a tube pan, then finished with a coffee-cocoa icing. Feather-light and caffeinated.

Light-as-air chocolate chiffon cake with deep cocoa flavor and virtually zero fat, perfect for anyone craving rich chocolate dessert without the calorie bomb.

This cake is remarkable; no one would ever believe that it is so low in fat and calories.

Tender white layer cake stuffed with citrusy orange-coconut filling and crowned with fluffy boiled frosting. A Southern classic that's pure sunshine on a plate.

Applesauce replace the fat and keeps the cake moist.

Cute Easter egg cookies are tender cut-out cookies shaped with an egg cutter and decorated with smooth pastel icing. A fun Easter baking project for kids, made lighter with a sugar substitute in the dough.

Moist banana bread swaps butter for applesauce and uses egg whites instead of whole eggs. Low-fat quick bread sweetened by 4 ripe bananas with cinnamon. Freezes up to 2 months.

Basic breakfast muffins made with flour, honey, and applesauce. No butter, no eggs, no oil. Six pantry ingredients turn into soft, lightly sweet muffins in 45 minutes.

Classic chocolate whoopie pies with two soft cocoa cake rounds sandwiching a fluffy marshmallow buttercream filling. The Pennsylvania Dutch lunchbox favorite that freezes beautifully.