Recipes with baking soda

Soft, warmly spiced gingerbread cookies made with molasses, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg. Roll and cut into festive shapes for Christmas decorating with simple icing.

Powdered sugar cut-out cookies stay tender and soft, perfect for decorating. Almond and vanilla extracts give these holiday classics a complex, bakery-style flavor that beats other sugar cookies.

Buttermilk waffles with raspberry sauce trade syrup for a bright purple-red puree spiked with orange zest. The tang of buttermilk and lift from baking powder give crisp-edged waffles a fluffy interior.

Lighter peanut butter chip brownies use prune puree instead of butter for moisture, with egg whites for structure. Fudgy chocolate brownies studded with peanut butter chips, no oil required.

Soft-baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with warm cinnamon and nutmeg spices, ready in under 30 minutes for chewy or crispy texture

Sourdough maple pancakes: tangy, fluffy pancakes built on active sourdough starter and sweetened with real maple syrup. The classic discard recipe that turns yesterday's starter into Sunday breakfast.

Double chocolate chocolate chip cookies with rich cocoa dough and semi-sweet chips folded throughout. Soft fudgy centers, crisp edges, and an option to add chopped nuts for crunch.

Bakery-style blueberry muffins with nutmeg sugar topping. Three flours, butter, and buttermilk give a tender crumb and tall domed tops crowned with crackly spiced sugar.

Apple oat muffins topped with cinnamon-brown sugar streusel. Quick oats add hearty texture, fresh apple keeps the crumb moist. One-bowl batter, ready in 30 minutes.

White chocolate chip cookies built on a deep chocolate dough loaded with creamy white chocolate chips. Sour cream keeps them soft, melted semi-sweet gives them brownie-like depth.

Super fudge cupcakes soak chopped dates in boiling water before folding into a chocolate batter studded with chips and nuts. Date-sweetened, intensely fudgy cupcakes with a tender crumb.

Buttermilk pancakes made with bacon drippings and folded egg whites for impossibly tall, fluffy stacks with a smoky-savory undercurrent. Twenty minutes from bowl to plate. Old-school Southern breakfast.

Classic roll-out gingerbread cookies with ginger, nutmeg, and molasses, perfect for cookie cutters and holiday decorating. The traditional Christmas cookie kids and grown-ups both love to ice.

Brownies with peanut butter topping take fudgy cocoa squares and crown them with melted peanut butter chips spread into a silky icing. Brown sugar deepens the cocoa, peanut butter chips melt right in the pan. A two-layer treat from one bowl.

Holiday chocolate chip cookies follow the classic Toll House blueprint: butter, brown sugar, semisweet chips, and a fistful of chopped nuts. Crisp at the edges, soft in the middle, ready in 30 minutes. The cookie tin standard.

Chocolate peanut butter cookies bake brown sugar, peanut butter dough loaded with chocolate chips. Soft chewy centers and crisp edges, ready in under an hour.