1,113 soda recipes

Old-fashioned buttermilk chocolate cake baked low and slow with cocoa powder and boiling water for an incredibly moist, dense crumb. A single-layer 9x13 sheet cake.

Soft molasses cookies spiced with ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. A classic LA Times recipe that bakes up thick, cakey, and deeply spiced.

A simple chocolate crumb cake made with chocolate syrup and topped with a buttery sugar crumble, all from one bowl. Mix the base, reserve some for the topping, and bake. Ready in an hour.

Festive cocoa cards are large chocolate-molasses cookies cut into rectangles and decorated with frosting to look like greeting cards. A fun holiday baking project for kids and adults.

Date-nut muffins with boiled dates, chopped pecans, and vanilla. The dates are softened with baking soda before mixing, creating a moist, caramel-like crumb.

Brown sugar walnut cookies with butter, vanilla, and a half walnut pressed into each one. Old-fashioned drop cookies with caramel-sweet flavor and a crunchy sugar top.

Berry-banana-walnut bread with mashed strawberries or raspberries, banana, orange zest, cinnamon, and nutmeg. A fruit-packed quick bread with a blueberry variation included.

Kentucky cornmeal griddle cakes made with buttermilk, yellow cornmeal, and a touch of flour. Crispy-edged, golden pancakes with a slightly gritty bite, served with warm maple syrup.

Drop molasses cookies with buttermilk, brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon rest overnight for deep flavor. Soft, cakey cookies with that old-fashioned dark molasses chew.

Cherry quick bread with maraschino cherries folded into a buttery buttermilk batter. A sweet, tender loaf with pops of bright red cherry in every slice, baked in one hour.

Homemade caramel nut corn with walnuts, pecans, or almonds coated in a brown sugar and corn syrup caramel, then baked low and slow until crunchy. Addictive snack for gifting.

Depression-era eggless, milkless, butterless cake with brown sugar, raisins, ginger, and cinnamon. A simple wartime recipe that bakes into a spiced, dense loaf with minimal pantry staples.

Carrot muffins with cinnamon, made with corn oil for a moist, tender crumb. A simple carrot cake-style muffin that springs back when done.

Norwegian kringla cookies shaped into figure-eights with a tender buttermilk dough. Chilled overnight, baked fast at high heat for a light, slightly sweet pastry.

Old-fashioned Pennsylvania ginger cakes with molasses, brown sugar, and a butter-lard shortening blend baked in muffin pans. Dense, spicy, and rich with that deep molasses flavor.

Pennsylvania Dutch pot pie with layers of homemade egg noodle dough and quartered potatoes baked in a buttered kettle for 3 hours. Not a typical pot pie, this is old-world comfort food.