10,000 sugar recipes

Sandbakelse, traditional Scandinavian butter cookies with cardamom, pressed into mini tart tins and filled with jam. Delicate, sandy-textured holiday cookies dusted with powdered sugar.

Boston banana cream pie, a soft vanilla cake split and stuffed with fresh banana slices and homemade vanilla custard, then topped with a glossy chocolate-almond glaze.

Prawn pate with minced shrimp, cream cheese, butter, sour cream, and a kick of hot sauce. A smooth, no-cook seafood spread served on hot toast triangles as an elegant appetizer.

Microwave candied pineapple rings simmered in sugar syrup until glossy and transparent, then dried and double-coated in sugar. Just 3 ingredients. A sparkling holiday confection.

Apricot walnut crescent cookies with a flaky sour cream pastry rolled around apricot preserves and ground walnuts, dusted with powdered sugar. An Eastern European holiday classic.

Make your own Kahlua following the simple steps and you will be able to enjoy it's decadent taste in the comfort of your home.

Three-ingredient New England cranberry sauce with fresh cranberries, sugar, and water. Homemade cranberry sauce that thickens as it cools, ready in under 30 minutes.

Red velvet cheeseball is a no-bake dessert dip made from cream cheese, butter, and dry red velvet cake mix, then rolled in mini chocolate chips. A sweet, creamy party centerpiece for dunking vanilla wafers and graham crackers.

Buttery currant oatmeal muffins with walnuts, orange zest, pumpkin pie spice, and a cinnamon sugar top. Tender, warmly spiced breakfast muffins that bake in just 25 minutes.

Crisp crust apple pie bakes thinly sliced apples in cinnamon sugar under a shortening-based pastry crust topped with more cinnamon sugar and butter pats. Cobbler-style with a shattering top.

Four-ingredient muffins made with biscuit mix, sugar, water, and an egg. Pantry-easy, ready in 30 minutes, and the base for countless quick-bread variations.

Butterflied leg of lamb marinated in olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, and fresh herbs, then roasted to a rosy medium-rare. The centerpiece of a Greek Easter table.

Cinnamon sherry biscochitos, the official state cookie of New Mexico, crisp anise-scented butter cookies with a splash of sherry and cinnamon sugar coating.

Illinois apple pie fills a flaky double-crust shortening pastry with thin-sliced Granny Smith apples spiced with cinnamon, brown sugar, and nutmeg. Brushed with milk and dusted with sugar for a sparkling top.

Old-fashioned chocolate cream pie with a silky stovetop cocoa custard thickened with cornstarch, finished with butter and vanilla and poured into a baked crust. Classic chocolate pie, no meringue mix required.

Pork loin roast with pesto and sun-dried tomato stuffing: bone-in pork roast with pockets cut above each rib and packed with basil pesto, croutons, and sun-dried tomatoes. A four-ingredient showstopper.