10,000 cake recipes

Fudgy cocoa brownies topped with melted peppermint patties spread into a smooth mint chocolate layer. Double chocolate, double mint, and seriously indulgent.

Soft sour cream cookies with a sugar-pressed top, made from simple pantry staples. The sour cream keeps them pillowy and tender for days.

Käsetorte is the German cheesecake with a buttery shortcrust pressed into a springform and topped with cream cheese filling thickened by vanilla pudding mix. Lighter and softer than New York-style, with old-world Bavarian charm.

Sunglasses-shaped sugar cookies with crushed Life Savers melted into the lenses for colorful stained-glass centers. A fun baking project kids love.

Shape-holding cutout cookies with almond and vanilla extract that keep every detail from imprinted cookie cutters. Soft, flavorful, and ideal for royal icing.

Snowdrop chocolate crinkle cookies with unsweetened chocolate, oil, and a powdered sugar coating that cracks open as they bake. Holiday cookie classic.

Deep-fried apple fritters with diced apples in a simple egg batter, served with a homemade maple-brown sugar syrup. Crispy outside, tender and fruity inside.

Orange cherry biscotti: twice-baked Italian cookies studded with dried cherries and zested orange. Crisp, dunkable, and nearly fat-free. Pairs with coffee, tea, or sweet dessert wine.

Oyster cups with chopped oysters in a cheesy celery white sauce served in homemade biscuit cups. A vintage luncheon dish with an edible bread bowl for each serving.

Date drop cookies studded with chopped dates and walnuts and warmly spiced with cinnamon and cloves. A drop-and-bake batter with no chilling or rolling, ready for the cookie jar in well under an hour.

Buttery pecan tea cookies rolled in powdered sugar while warm, then dusted again after cooling. Melt-in-your-mouth snowball cookies also known as Russian tea cakes.

Classic almond biscotti are twice-baked Italian cookies made with whole-wheat and white flour, turbinado sugar, eggs, vanilla, and toasted almonds. Crisp, dunkable, and made for coffee.

Mom Stern's noodle kugel with wide egg noodles, sliced apples, raisins, and a sweet egg custard baked until crispy on top and springy inside. A classic Jewish comfort dessert.

Old-fashioned cake doughnuts made from scratch with nutmeg and vanilla, deep-fried and dusted with sugar. No yeast, no rising time, no fuss.

A classic oatmeal cookie recipe yielding chewy, golden treats with warm cinnamon notes. Optional add-ins like raisins or chocolate chips make it versatile.

Upside-down muffins with pecans and melted margarine in the bottom that become a praline topping when inverted after baking.