6,869 vanilla sugar recipes

Mississippi mud bars layer fudgy pecan-studded brownies under a glossy chocolate frosting and another shower of toasted pecans. Cut into small bars, they yield over four dozen from one 9x13 pan. Southern bake-sale royalty.

Chocolate pan cake pours hot cocoa-butter liquid into a buttermilk batter, bakes in a 13x9 pan, and gets a warm cocoa glaze poured over while still hot. Southern Texas sheet cake classic.

Three-layer carrot cake baked low and slow with grated carrots, chopped nuts, and cinnamon, topped with a thick cream cheese icing. A Southern-style classic that never goes out of style.

Filled devil dogs are homemade chocolate sandwich cookies with a fluffy cooked-flour cream filling. A nostalgic copycat of the classic Drake's snack cake, soft, cocoa-rich, and bakery-fresh.

Classic Italian cannoli filling with ricotta, powdered sugar, vanilla, citron, candied orange peel, and chocolate chunks. Process smooth and pipe into cannoli shells for an authentic Sicilian treat.

Jellyroll layer cake with spiced sponge strips rolled into a spiral and frosted with English toffee icing. Looks like a regular cake but slices reveal vertical swirl layers.

No-bake nectarine pie with a caramelized granola crunch crust and vanilla cream cheese filling. Light, fresh, and summer-ready with just five ingredients.

Brown sugar sour cream cookies wrapped around walnut-stuffed dates, baked and topped with a vanilla sour cream icing. A unique, old-fashioned holiday cookie.

Blarney stones are tender cake bars coated in powdered sugar icing and rolled in chopped peanuts or pecans. A classic Irish-American holiday treat with a crunchy, nutty shell.

A silky baked banana custard set over a layer of homemade caramel, similar to a banana flan. Made with evaporated milk, eggs, and fresh nutmeg, then chilled overnight and inverted to serve.

This recipe is a tradition in my husband's Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish Army.

Yellow party cake, a classic two-layer butter cake with a buttery vanilla crumb. Frosted with sunny yellow icing for birthdays and celebrations, tender from a long creaming method.

Classic pecan pie from Dear Abby columnist Abigail Van Buren, built on corn syrup, brown sugar, and whole pecans scattered across the top instead of stirred in. The old-school Southern holiday standard.

Classic Bacardi rum bundt cake from a yellow cake mix and vanilla pudding base, soaked in buttery rum glaze and drizzled with chocolate. The legendary boozy holiday cake.

Roll-and-cut sugar cookies painted with egg yolk food coloring before baking. A fun decorating activity for kids with a crisp, golden result every time.

Make-ahead bread pudding layered with currants and soaked overnight in vanilla-nutmeg custard, then baked golden and served with a fresh homemade strawberry sauce. A gorgeous holiday dessert.