Baking

This deliciously moist sweet potato cake recipe from Baltimore’s Crust by Mack is stacked high with thick layers of salted cream cheese frosting.

With a puckery curd and buttery crust, these are the bars you’ll make again and again.

Featuring cornmeal and fresh corn kernels.

With less sugar and more salt than most other recipes, this buttery, toasted crumb crust is significantly nicer than anything store-bought.

These fluffy buns combine the classic folded-over shape of Parker House rolls and pillowy texture of a milk bread dough—perfect for your holiday table.

This double-decker pie stacks two forever favorites—chocolate and coconut cream—in a homemade salted graham cracker crust for a best-of-all-worlds situation.

These New England–style gingerbread cookies get a hefty dose of molasses and just the right amount of warming spice.

Subtly sweet and a smidge savory, this cake is an ideal on-the-go breakfast or afternoon pick-me-up.

One bite is all it takes to fall in love with this extra-plush, cardamom-scented cake.

This tres leches cake recipe gets its tenderness from the addition of a fourth type of milk and a kick from a shot of rum.

All the gooey goodness that chocolate pecan pie lovers crave, but with a cocoa crust, bittersweet morsels baked right into the custard, and fluffy chocolate cream.

This boozy pie tastes like a Hallmark Christmas movie—you know, in the best way.

Reducing the liquid in this mile-high apple pie recipe to a syrupy consistency concentrates the flavor and yields the ideal juicy sauciness.

These simple sugar cookies are crisp yet tender, keep their shape when baked, and yes, taste great too. 

A showstopping peanut-studded banana cream pie with sky-high whipped cream.

This gooey molasses pie comes from long-standing Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bakery Wendy Jo’s Homemade.

This easy recipe for sweet potato pecan pie uses a frozen deep-dish pie shell and a food processor to make the mashed sweet potato pie filling.

Also called pineapple buns, this recipe for bolo bao makes a delectable version of the Hong Kong pastry, with a crispy cookie topping and fluffy interior.

No booze, no chocolate, no hard-to-find ingredients in this rendition of the classic pecan pie. 

The sweetened condensed milk makes a decadent custard, while the perfect ratio of spices highlights the pumpkin flavor. 

This easy pie is the perfect marriage of apple crumble and apple pie, because you shouldn’t have to choose.

Bake a batch for portable breakfasts all week long.

Destined to be your go-to chocolate pie recipe for any and all occasions.

Baking for a vegan? Going dairy-free? Forget a few items on your last grocery run? There’s a heavy cream substitute for that.