1,469 vanilla recipes

Rich, buttery banana bread with a full cup of melted butter, chopped nuts, and a generous helping of ripe mashed bananas. Makes one large loaf or two smaller ones. Freezes beautifully.

Cinnamon and cloves perfume these twisted Greek sesame cookies with golden crusts and soft centers. Makes 72 cookies perfect for Mediterranean holiday cookie exchanges or gift tins.

Rich bundt cake made with melted milk chocolate bars gets crowned with a silky chocolate icing. Tender crumb studded with optional nuts bakes up in just 40 minutes.

A lighter baked rice pudding studded with chopped apples and dates, lifted with folded egg whites for a soufflé-like texture. Warm, cinnamony, and comforting.

Four-layer Black Forest torte with thin unsweetened chocolate cake layers alternating between chocolate filling and cream filling. Unfrosted sides show off the elegant layers.

Never-fail fudge with marshmallow cream, chocolate chips, evaporated milk, butter, and walnuts. A foolproof candy recipe that reaches soft-ball stage in 5 minutes of boiling and fills two 9x9 pans.

Fudgy sourdough chocolate cake mixed in one bowl with cocoa, cold coffee, and sourdough starter. Rich, dense, and scratch-made with a tang you can't get from a box mix.

This cake is moist and tastes fantastic. It is also one of the easiest cakes to make.

Pinwheel slice-and-bake cookies with a chocolate oat layer swirled around a peanut oat layer. Make the dough ahead, chill overnight, then slice and bake in minutes.

Buttery pecan coconut cookie balls with a hint of almond, baked golden and finished with a tropical pineapple honey glaze or a roll in powdered sugar. Makes about 6 dozen bite-sized treats.

Microwave fudge made in just 2 minutes with milk chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate, and sweetened condensed milk. Velvety smooth, no candy thermometer needed, and loaded with chopped nuts.

A chocolate cherry upside-down cake made without eggs or butter. Cherry pie filling bakes under a rich cocoa batter, then gets flipped for a stunning glossy cherry top.

Freezer-friendly zucchini bread batter made in a food processor with brown sugar, cinnamon, and nuts. Mix a big batch, freeze in loaf pans, then bake fresh loaves whenever the craving hits.

No-bake peanut butter bars with a graham cracker crust, powdered sugar, and a thin chocolate topping. Tastes like a giant homemade Reese's cup in bar form.

No-bake peanut butter drops with oats, walnuts, and coconut. Boil the base for 3 minutes, stir in everything else, drop, and cool. A stovetop cookie that skips the oven entirely.

Fudgy one-bowl peppermint brownies made with real unsweetened chocolate, drizzled with white chocolate, and topped with crushed candy canes. A festive holiday brownie.