7,122 vanilla extract recipes

This chocolate custard pie hides a layer of butterscotch and chocolate chips beneath a silky cocoa filling. Simple pantry ingredients, one bowl, and a whole lot of yum.

A single-layer fudgy chocolate cake with dark corn syrup, pecans, and a shiny chocolate chip glaze. Brownie-dense and intensely chocolatey, this is the kind of cake you slice thin and savor slowly.

Buffalo chip cookies loaded with oats, corn flakes, chocolate chips, coconut, and pecans in a massive, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink drop cookie. Big, chunky, and over the top.

Cowboy cookies (hundred cookies) loaded with crisp rice cereal, oats, coconut, and nuts in a chewy brown sugar dough. The classic everything-cookie that bakes 100 to a batch for cookie tin gifting.

Butterscotch dandy cake folds homemade hard-ball butterscotch syrup into a tender two-layer cake, then crowns it with a cooked brown sugar buttercream. A real-deal Southern butterscotch cake from scratch.

Referee cookies with chocolate cocoa dough loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chips, decorated with white chocolate stripes piped on top. A fun game-day treat that looks like a referee jersey.

Mint iced brownies stack three layers: a fudgy pecan brownie, a cool green peppermint buttercream, and a glossy semisweet chocolate glaze. A chocolate-mint holiday favorite, with the brownie base baked fast in the microwave.

An Italian chocolate hazelnut cake from Turin with homemade gianduja paste, whipped chocolate cream filling, apricot jam, and a brandy-liqueur soak. A show-stopping patisserie-level dessert.

Apple raisin meringue pie with a soft cooked apple-raisin custard filling and fluffy lemon-scented meringue topping. Old-fashioned alternative to classic apple pie.

Toll House crumb cake with sour cream batter, chocolate chips folded in, and a brown sugar walnut-chocolate streusel topping. The classic Nestlé coffee cake recipe.

Best lemon sour cream pie folds tangy sour cream into a stovetop lemon curd, then crowns it with vanilla-scented meringue. Three textures in one slice: silky filling, billowy peaks, flaky crust.

Kaesekuchen, traditional German cheesecake: a light cottage cheese and sour cream filling with lemon, vanilla, and raisins, baked on a buttery shortcrust base and topped with almonds. Lighter than the American style.

Kurant vodka cheesecake baked in a water bath with a graham cracker-almond crust, topped with fresh strawberries glazed in strawberry jelly spiked with more Kurant vodka. A showstopper dessert.

Chocolate chip cherry drop cookies with cream cheese in the dough, maraschino cherries, and a half-cherry crown on each cookie. Holiday-bright bite-sized treats.

Mile-high fig pie with a sour cream and dried fig filling, chopped walnuts, and a towering meringue topping baked golden. A vintage showstopper dessert.

Caramel chocolate pecan pie with a creamy cheesecake filling poured over pecans, chocolate chips, and caramel sauce in a flaky crust. A rich, layered dessert that's part pie, part cheesecake.