1,614 vanilla recipes

Buttery drop cookies with orange extract and flaked coconut. Crisp golden edges, soft centers. This big-batch recipe makes 5 dozen in about 30 minutes of active time.

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.

Marshmallow cream fudge made in the microwave with chocolate chips, evaporated milk, and butter cooked to soft ball stage. Creamy, smooth, and no candy thermometer needed.

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.

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 raisin fudge with unsweetened chocolate, molasses, and chopped nuts cooked to soft ball stage. A rich, dark candy with deep caramel flavor.

Honey butter cookie dough shaped into snakes with chocolate chip eyes and drizzled in cinnamon-honey sauce. A fun Halloween baking project kids love to make and eat.

Fudgy chocolate roll-out cookies made with melted unsweetened chocolate and brown sugar. A rich, dark cookie dough that rolls, cuts into shapes, and bakes in under 10 minutes for a deeply chocolatey result.

Four-minute brownie pie with no crust needed. Beat everything together for 4 minutes, pour into a pie pan, and bake. Fudgy, crackly-topped, and best served warm with ice cream.

Classic zucchini bread with grated zucchini, cinnamon, and a moist oil-based crumb. Bakes two 8x4 loaves at once, freezes well, and only gets better the next day.

Cookie brittle with chocolate chips and walnuts pressed into one pan, baked, then snapped into snappy shards. Sugar-substitute friendly with crisp, candy-like edges.

Lemon oat lacies are crisp, lacy oatmeal cookies brightened with fresh lemon zest and dusted with powdered sugar. Buttery shortbread meets oatmeal in a delicate egg-free cookie.

Jan Hagels are crisp Dutch shortbread cookies spiced with cinnamon and ginger, brushed with egg white, and topped with chopped pecans or walnuts. Sliced into rectangular bars while warm.

Sugar and spice apple nut cake, a one-bowl single-layer cake loaded with chopped fresh apples, warm cinnamon and nutmeg, and crunchy nuts, baked in a square pan.

No-bake date and nut balls combine simmered dates, candied cherries and butter with rice cereal and walnuts, rolled in coconut. A retro Christmas cookie tray classic from the 1950s.

Pecan butter cookies are soft brown sugar drop cookies packed with chopped pecans. Buttery, caramel-kissed, and baked in 10 minutes for 2 dozen classic Southern cookies.