8,128 vanilla recipes

Chocolate syrup cake bakes up moist and rich with a thin batter that turns into a fudgy 9x13 sheet cake. A vintage one-bowl dessert built around a full bottle of chocolate syrup.

Raspberry poppy seed cookies are tender butter thumbprints studded with crunchy poppy seeds and filled with jewel-bright raspberry preserves. A bakery-style classic with two textures in every bite.

Clubwoman's Cake, a Depression-era egg-free and dairy-free chocolate cake made with vinegar and oil. A pantry-staples cake that mixes in one bowl with a fork and bakes up moist in 30 minutes.

Flowerpot desserts layer yellow cake, ice cream, and golden meringue in clay pots with real flower stems poking through the top. A showstopping party trick that looks wild and tastes like baked Alaska.

Susan's apple cake is a one-bowl dump-and-bake with three whole apples, toasted walnuts, and a full tablespoon of cinnamon. The kind of homey loaf that improves the second day.

Pumpkin flan: a silky honey-sweetened pumpkin custard baked in a water bath with a brown sugar bottom and a splash of brandy. A fall twist on classic Spanish flan, chilled and ready in 5 hours.

Chocolate bonbon cookies: a holiday favorite rolled in powdered sugar or frosted and topped with coconut. Rich chocolate-almond cookies that shine on a holiday cookie tray.

Strawberry pizza layers a buttery sugar cookie crust with sweetened cream cheese and glossy fresh strawberries. A Southern summer dessert that slices like pizza but eats like a fruit tart.

Chestnut meringues with chopped marrons glaces folded through crisp, snowy French meringue, dusted with cocoa. A delicate, old-world European cookie for tea trays and holiday gift tins.

Frangelico cheesecake spiked with hazelnut liqueur for a nutty, faintly sweet adult dessert. Just five ingredients in a graham cracker crust for an easy, dinner-party-worthy cheesecake.

Swedish Christmas crescent cookies: tender almond shortbread shaped into half-moons and finished with cinnamon sugar. The classic Scandinavian holiday cookie that melts on the tongue.

White chocolate sorbet with dark chocolate chips and a whisper of creme de cassis. A dairy-free frozen dessert with deep cocoa-butter richness and bright black-currant lift.

Pignoli cookies (pine nut macaroons): the chewy almond-paste Italian classic studded with toasted pine nuts and dusted with powdered sugar. Naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, and totally addictive.

Haselnussmakronen, traditional German hazelnut macaroons: a cocoa meringue folded with crushed hazelnuts and lemon zest, baked low into chewy, flourless cookies. A naturally gluten-free holiday treat.

One-saucepan double chocolate chip brownies made with melted chips instead of cocoa, then loaded with more chips and nuts. Rich, fudgy, and quick to stir together.

Candy shop cookie pizza bakes soft chocolate chip cookie dough into one giant round, ready to slice into wedges and pile high with your favorite candy. A fun party dessert that's basically a build-your-own cookie cake.