Baked Good recipe collection

Sweet roll and doughnut dough is a versatile yeasted sponge that can be fried into glazed doughnuts or baked into soft dinner rolls. Two desserts from one dough.

Sweet buttermilk biscuits with a touch of sugar, made with shortening for a tender, flaky crumb. Six ingredients, patted by hand, and baked golden in 15 minutes.

Pate sucree (sweet short pastry) made the French way with butter worked by hand into flour, powdered sugar, and eggs. Tender, cookie-like crust for tarts and tartlets that keeps for days.

Sweet potato pie with evaporated milk, cinnamon, and a surprise hit of lemon extract. Old-fashioned Southern dessert with a custardy filling and a deeply browned crust.

Sweet yeast crust dough makes a tender, slightly sweet base for fruit tarts, kuchen, or kolache. Two rises, one egg-and-butter enriched dough, ready for any filling.

Sweet yeast dough built with buttermilk, butter, and a blend of white and whole-wheat flours. The workhorse base for sticky buns, cinnamon rolls, and tender breakfast pastries with a soft, pillowy crumb.

Chocolate sweetheart sandwich cookies with cocoa dough puffed and crackled, filled with vanilla buttercream. Homemade Oreo-style cookies with a rich, creamy center.

Homemade chocolate sandwich cookies with creamy vanilla buttercream filling. Better than Oreos with the option to tint half the filling pink or green with peppermint for Valentine's Day.

These pretty little peppermint-flavored cookies are a tasty, colorful addition to any holiday cookie box.

Light, chewy almond macaroons sandwiched with rich chocolate ganache. A classic Swiss cookie recipe using blanched almonds, Swiss meringue, and semi-sweet chocolate filling.

Sicilian-style swordfish involtini: swordfish rolled around a toasted pine nut and parsley filling, braised in tomato sauce with white wine and chili flakes. Bright, briny, and weeknight-fast.

Syrian sesame muffins built on toasted sesame seeds, sesame oil, buttermilk, and brown sugar. Nutty, lightly sweet breakfast muffins with a crackling sesame top crust.

Taffy apple pie loaded with Heath toffee bits, sliced apples, and a crunchy oat-walnut streusel topping. Decorative pastry leaf cutouts ring the edge for a showstopper finish.

Nutty tahini paste blended with fresh orange juice and zest creates a uniquely flavored Middle Eastern cake studded with walnuts and golden raisins.

Traditional challah bread with saffron, white raisins, and poppy seeds. A slow two-day cold rise develops deep flavor in these golden braided loaves.

Taka hallah, a saffron-tinted challah bread with white raisins and poppy seeds, braided and baked golden. A two-day refrigerator rise makes this Shabbat loaf extra flavorful.