Baking & Dessert Recipes

Velvet-rich and deeply flavored homemade butterscotch pudding, fluffy whipped cream, and a flaky crust come together to make one incredible butterscotch pie. In this recipe, you're building layers of flavor starting with caramelized sugar. This recipe is an advanced baking recipe. Read through the entire recipe before beginning because there are several different components. It's also helpful to review my tutorial on how to blind bake pie crust. This pie is a wonderful make-ahead option because it needs time to set up in the refrigerator.

Herb & Apple Bread Pudding from Barefoot Contessa. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the bread in a single layer on a sheet pan and bake for 20…

Light, fluffy, and so much better than the store-bought version, these sourdough discard Hawaiian rolls are the ultimate dinner roll that your family will love. Super soft and sweet, we love serving them as sliders or enjoying butter and jam.

We believe in the power and flavor of fresh zest to distinguish the Don Julio® Blanco margarita from all others. This zesty devotion takes this margarita cocktail from middle-of-the-road to masterpiece

This classic chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe features slightly crisp edges that lead to a soft and chewy interior. No mixer required!

The ultimate brownie recipe that beat every boxed mix in blind taste tests! Ultra fudgy, a crackly top, and loaded with chocolate.

This amazing flourless chocolate cake is so rich, smooth and chocolatey! As an added bonus, it is also gluten-free! If you love chocolate, you are going to go crazy about this cake - this is chocoholic's heaven!

These sourdough waffles, which are made with sourdough discard and lightened with baking soda, have a fluffy, airy texture and a slight aromatic tang. They're ideal for soaking up maple syrup, but they also make a perfect base for savory dishes like fried chicken. If you prefer pancakes, check out our recipe for Classic Sourdough Pancakes.

Classic cornbread recipe.

This is my favorite homemade chocolate cake recipe. With a super moist crumb and fudgy, yet light texture, this chocolate cake recipe will be your favorite too. Top with chocolate buttercream and chocolate chips for 3x the chocolate flavor. You can also prepare this chocolate layer cake as a sheet cake. See recipe Note.

Best Fall apple dessert. Sauté apples in a caramel sauce and top with easy 15 minute puff pastry, bake and flip for the most impressive apple dessert you've ever served. You can use store-bought puff pastry.

The best lactation cookies thaty actually work to increase milk supply. They are a delicious late night snack!

Easy baked chicken tenders with a butter dijon coating and breadcrumb crust.

Get Tres Leches Cake with Berries Recipe from Food Network

This recipe creates a delicious German pancake, also known as a Dutch baby pancake, baked in a skillet or casserole dish until puffed and golden.

German plum cake

Classic breakfast. Fast enough for a school morning, yummy & satisfying.

This Apple Crumble (Apple Crisp) recipe is the perfect cozy apple dessert. Made with sliced apples and an Oat Apple Crumble Topping, it comes together very easily, can be made ahead, and can also easily be scaled to whatever size you need - a small batch apple crumble or one which can feed a crowd.

This recipe has been a classic for years: moist, easy to make, and liberally studded with juicy berries. It's the perfect way to make use of your berry-picking bounty, but it can be made at any time of year with frozen berries if you just can't wait for a forkful of summer.

Homemade Luxardo Maraschino Cherries are a great additonal to your at-home bar. They also make an amazing gift; all you need is a bottle of luxardo liqueur.

These cookies have a unique and irresistible texture: a little crisp at the edges, with a soft, sandy center that melts in your mouth. Every bite is a perfect balance of butter and vanilla; hints of both almond and nutmeg add signature bakery-cookie flavor. Pipe the dough for an elegant design or scoop it for a classic drop cookie appearance.

Soft, fluffy and absolutely delicious this 100% sourdough sandwich bread is the perfect sandwich bread. Tender and just a little hint of tang, this bread is our favorite for lunchbox sandwiches and slathering butter and jam.

This is the easiest chocolate buttercream frosting—it's hard to mess up and perfect for frosting cakes and cupcakes.

A quick and easy one pan recipe with linguine and chicken pieces in a spicy soy-based sauce. Perfect for busy weeknights with minimal clean up.

Soft, hearty and full of that sweet molasses flavor, this brown bread is made with whole grains and sourdough discard. This tried and true family favorite is even better than anything you can buy at the grocery store or get from a popular restaurant.

A single layer raspberry peach cake topped with a sugary coating. It's a quick one bowl recipe that is easy to throw together and tastes like summer.

Deliciously lemony blueberry studded cake with a rich and fluffy cream cheese icing.

Raspberry Almond Bars are an excellent option for those who don’t like or can’t eat chocolate.

This one-bowl banana bread — KAF 2018 Recipe of the Year — uses the simplest ingredients, but is incredibly moist and flavorful. While the recipe calls for a 50/50 mix of flours (all-purpose and whole wheat), we often make the bread 100% whole wheat, and honestly? No one can tell, it's that good! And not only is this bread delicious — it's versatile.

These easy homemade lemon bars are both tart and sweet, with a flaky shortbread crust. The perfect spring treat that will leave you wanting more and more!

This vanilla pound cake recipe has been my back pocket recipe for years and I know it will be yours too! This buttery pound cake recipe makes the most amazing loaf cake with an incredibly lush, tight crumb, and can be made days in advance. Leave it plain or finish it with a glaze, everyone will love this super easy recipe! Adding sour cream to the recipe gives the cake moisture without adding density for the most tender crumb. Read my full guide for how to scale the recipe for pan size, and how to get that perfect split down the top of the cake!

A hearty, spiced morning glory muffin reformatted as a one-bowl breakfast cake that will also make your kitchen smell spectacular.

Blackberry Sorbet is made with fresh berries and just enough sugar to highlight the pure berry flavor. It's beautiful in it's simplicity and it's simply beautiful.

Crusty, chewy and packed with plump, sticky raisins and aromatic cinnamon, then lightly sweetened with richly flavoured dark brown sugar. A super simple, no-knead loaf and your kitchen will smell amazing as it bakes! NOTE: This recipe has been updated to include an additional step in which the dough is cold proofed in the refrigerator prior to baking.

Learn to make simple homemade waffle batter from scratch for perfectly crispy waffles! They’re fluffy on the inside and perfectly crisp on the outside, and you can freeze any extras for a quick breakfast.

The best blueberry muffins you'll ever make! These incredible bakery style blueberry muffins with crumb topping are moist, perfectly sweet and bursting with juicy blueberries. You'll never need another blueberry muffin recipe!

A soft, tender butter cake, made with sour cream for moisture, with an impossibly light and fluffy crumb. I finish mine with sugar for a crunchy finish, but this cake is the perfect base recipe you will find yourself turning to again and again.

This easy, buttery shortbread cookie recipe comes together quickly. You can use one shortbread recipe to make classic shortbread cookies, or press into a pan to make Scottish shortbread.

This 6-ingredient Almond Butter Cake is dense and cookie-like. It's an almond flavored butter cake, and it's a must make cake for almond-lovers.

Butter Swim Biscuits are buttermilk biscuits that are baked drenched in butter for a biscuit that has a crispy crust with a soft and fluffy inside.

Fluffy pancakes with juicy blackberries, topped with powdered sugar.

I have been testing a lot of different protein pancake recipes and adding what we like to it. I personally think waffles are easier to make than pancakes, but you could use this recipe for a protein pancake or a protein waffle. The perfect fluffy thickness, a hearty waffle with a hint of vanilla, and packed with protein. A great way to start the day. You won’t believe how easy and tasty these are!

Delicious homemade brownies with dark chocolate chunks and optional nuts.

Pillowy soft and chewy sugar cookies bursting with fresh vanilla flavor and dusted with a sweet sugar coating.

Delicious chocolate chip cookies with a hint of vanilla and a sprinkle of Maldon salt.

Easy Apple Galette is the perfect apple dessert recipe. This apple galette recipe has a flaky homemade pie crust, a frangipane filling, and a sliced apple topping. A galette gives you the taste of pie but with a whole lot less work!

Light and delicate, these vanilla anise drop cookies are like a cross between meringues and springerle. The true marker of success with anise drop cookies is whether or not they develop “feet” or Füsschen and a top or Haubchen. During the resting, or aging, period a portion of the egg whites and sugar rises to creating a bit of a meringue-like top layer.

Fudgy, cakey, fudgy, cakey... can't make up your mind? If you're looking for a brownie that's right in between those two styles, you've found it. These brownies combine a fudge brownie's ultra-moist texture with a subtle cake-like rise, for the best of both worlds.

Classic banana bread recipe.

Learn how to make sweet and creamy white chocolate buttercream frosting with this easy recipe. Although it looks plain, the frosting is made with melted white chocolate, so there's extra flavor hiding in each creamy swirl. Be sure to use real white chocolate, and not white chocolate morsels. See recipe Notes.

Learn how to make a perfectly buttery, flaky homemade pie crust from scratch using this in-depth recipe, video tutorial, and success tips. This recipe is enough for a double crust pie. If you only need 1 crust for your pie, freeze the other half per the Freezing Instructions below. Is your pie dough tearing, cracking, or crumbling as you try to roll it out? See recipe Notes.

A bouldered and plush intersection of baked apples and New York-style crumb cake, i.e. 50% cinnamon-brown sugar topping and 50% golden, sour cream-enriched cake.

Chocolate chip cookies recipe from Lisa's kitchen

This recipe creates a crisp and delicious honey caramel corn, perfect for snacking.

A profoundly perfect crumb cake, the kind that's 50% big brown sugar and cinnamon crumbs and 50% golden, buttery, sour cream-enriched and vanilla-scented cake.

Chewy ginger cookies capture the essence of fall and the holiday season. A family tradition that's easy to make and full of festive flavor.

This beautifully swirled sourdough cinnamon raisin bread offers a perfect balance of tanginess and sweetness. It's tender enough to make yummy buttered toast for breakfast, yet will stand up to being grilled into a panini with, say, crunchy peanut butter and soft, cinnamon-scent apples. Make it with your fed sourdough starter or use sourdough discard straight from the refrigerator for a tangier cinnamon raisin loaf.

This recipe can be doubled

This hot milk cake is a timeless classic! With its soft, tender crumb and light vanilla flavor, it’s perfect for any occasion. Whether served plain, topped with whipped cream, or fresh fruit, this easy-to-make cake will have everyone coming back for seconds.

This is the perfect recipe for the beginner baker. I've been making this bread for years using commercial yeast before I ever tried my hand at sourdough. I have since tweaked this recipe to use sourdough discard because my family doesn't prefer long fermented, sour, sandwich bread.

Little pots of satiny molten chocolate are the ultimate fix for chocoholics in under 30 minutes.

Individual chocolate cakes filled with molten chocolate? This is them! And they're so easy you can make them while your kids clear the table.

Quick and easy recipe for funfetti vanilla sugar cookies is soft, chewy, and filled with rainbow sprinkles! Recipe makes 24 tasty sprinkle cookies, the dough requires no chill time in the refrigerator, and can be baked right away!