45 Fun & Easy Things to Bake

This chewy chocolate chip cookie cake recipe is easy to make and a serious crowd pleaser: the perfect treat for book clubs and pitch ins! It's gooey and chocolaty, with a hint of orange zest to enhance the flavors.

There’s no need to run out to the bakery if you’ve got a donut craving. Try Baked Donuts! They’re irresistibly tender, sweet with a moist crumb, and pure perfection topped with a rich chocolate glaze. Add a bit of confetti sprinkles, and what could be more fun? All you need is a donut baking pan and a hankering for a project.

Also try: Mini Donuts!

Want an easy baking project? These 3 ingredient flourless peanut butter cookies are chewy and irresistibly delicious! All you need is peanut butter, sugar and egg.

This fudgy olive oil brownies recipe is surprisingly easy and delivers rich, chocolaty goodness – minus the butter! Peanut butter adds a chewy texture and robust flavor, complementing the olive oil perfectly. These chewy, rich chocolate brownies have become a fan favorite.

These brown butter chocolate chip cookies are over the top: big and chewy, with nutty brown butter, chocolate chunks, topped with flaky sea salt (Nutella swirl optional). Our friends and family agree, this is one outrageously delicious cookie!

This easy apple crisp recipe with oats is classic! Golden crumbles sit atop a luscious, warm-spiced fruit filling. It makes your kitchen smell heavenly!

This homemade no knead bread will wow everyone! It’s so easy to make and has the best flavor, crispy crust, and chewy interior. It's a great thing to bake for beginners!

Also try: Best Sourdough Bread

What do you make when you’ve made all the zucchini bread and zucchini muffins? Zucchini brownies, of course! Stop what you’re doing and gather the ingredients for this recipe that will have your friends and family running for another piece. The brownies come out ultra moist and gooey, with a deep, rich chocolaty flavor.

You'll immediately want seconds of this tasty strawberry muffins recipe! It’s got a tender fluffy crumb and a cream cheese swirl topping. A total crowd pleaser!

Calling all chocolate lovers: here’s the ULTIMATE fudgy and rich flourless chocolate cake! Paired with tangy raspberry compote, it’s decadent perfection. If you're looking for a chocolaty thing to bake, this is it!

You won't be able to stop eating these applesauce cookies! Made with applesauce and oatmeal, they’re laced with an easy icing drizzle. They taste a bit like oatmeal cream pies (but much less work!).

We have a muffin crush, and this is it: Chocolate Zucchini Muffins! Each one is beautifully moist, with rich chocolate flavor and studded with melty chocolate chips. We’re a little picky about our chocolate muffins, and these bake up like a dream. The zucchini keeps them so moist, they’re delicious for days! 

Here's a savory thing to bake that's calling your name: easy Margerhita pizza! Here's how to make this famous pie at home, with a flavor-popping pizza sauce and this easy pizza dough recipe (that you can use for any topping).

Love a good coffee cake, with a tender, moist crumb and a cinnamon crumbly topping? Then you must try this coffee cake muffins recipe! These muffins taste just like coffee cake, but they’re quicker and easier to make. Buttermilk makes a beautifully tender crumb, and they’re topped with a sweet cinnamon streusel that gives a crunch to each bite. 

This easy chocolate banana bread recipe is moist and rich: add chocolate chips if you like it even more chocolaty! Chocolate bread is the perfect recipe for brunch, a snack, or dessert.

Also try: Easy Banana Nut Bread or Pumpkin Banana Bread

These are the best oven baked French fries that taste just like a restaurant! They come out crispy and perfectly seasoned: no need for frying. An absolute treat if you're looking for savory things to bake.

This applesauce cake is light and moist, scented with cinnamon and brown sugar. Mix it up right in the pan: no mixing bowls required!

Here’s a surprise favorite in our house when it comes to zucchini recipes: Lemon Zucchini Bread! We’ll make this instead of classic zucchini bread every time. This loaf is incredibly moist, super zingy from the lemon zest and topped with a flavor-popping sweet glaze. Cut it into thick slices and it’s extremely irresistible.

These vegan oatmeal raisin cookies are beyond delicious—soft, chewy, and infused with comforting cinnamon! They’re easy to make and please any type of eater (or are perfect if you’re out of eggs). Of all our vegan cookies, this recipe is a favorite!

This skillet cornbread recipe will become your go-to! Bake it up in an oven-safe or cast iron skillet and prepare to be amazed.

There’s something about bars that is so homey and appealing (especially if you’re from the Midwest like us!). Introducing Blueberry Pie Bars: all the flavors of blueberry pie in handheld form! These are so simple and satisfying! The same dough makes a thick bottom crust and golden buttery crumbles, and the filling is a bright burst of fresh blueberries and lemon juice.

This crowd-pleasing dessert won over our family and friends recently, so we’re excited to share it today. Try this Old fashioned blackberry cobbler recipe! The topping is sweet and fluffy with a crunchy sugar coating on the top, and it covers a zingy berry layer that’s scented with vanilla and cinnamon. 

These little cakes are fun, easy to put together, and overwhelmingly satisfying. The moist, carrot-studded cakes have just the right warm spiced interior, and they're piled high with tangy cream cheese frosting.

Here’s a cozy, fun quick bread to make any time of the year: try this Apple Bread recipe! It’s got a moist, tender crumb, and is bursting with tangy fruit, warm spices, and a brown sugar cinnamon swirl. It’s a total crowd pleaser! Everyone loves this spiced bread, and it makes the kitchen smell incredible. We couldn’t stop sneaking bites!

Impress everyone with these crinkled chocolate cookies that are a triple threat of chocolate! They taste like they’re right from a bakery.

These healthy banana bread muffins are lightly sweet and made mostly of oats and bananas! They’re blender muffins so they’re easy to make at home.

If it's anywhere remotely near pumpkin season, you must try this glazed pumpkin bread! The scent wafting through your kitchen transports you to an autumn paradise, and the loaf falls just so into deliciously cozy-spiced slices. It’s simple to whip up: one bowl, no special equipment; just dump and stir! (Want more ideas? Try our 10 Pumpkin Bread Recipes.)

These easy homemade biscuits are flaky, tender, buttery, and everything a biscuit should be. In a word: WOW. Bookmark this recipe: it will be your go-to!

Why not bake up a loaf of homemade sandwich bread? This bread recipe is easy to make and very versatile: it works for sandwiches, toast, and more!

Also try: Easy Whole Wheat Bread

Another savory thing to bake? Nachos! Here's our ultimate nachos recipe, loaded with all the classic toppings. These tips make a delicious sheet pan everyone will love!

Here’s a muffin recipe that’s the best cozy baking project: apple cinnamon muffins! These are so delicious everyone will beg for the recipe. Each one has a fluffy, tender crumb, with just the right amount of sweet tart bursts of apples. The best part? Sprinkling with cinnamon sugar before and after baking makes a crunchy, warm spiced topping.

This applesauce bread recipe is the best quick bread: unbelievably tasty and cozy spiced. Step it up with an easy icing drizzle that makes a lacy pattern over the top.

Here’s a great recipe that works for breakfast, brunch, dinner and everything in between: this easy quiche recipe! This savory pie is quite the stunner, with a rich, cheesy custard filling and a flaky pastry crust. Also try Spinach Quiche, Broccoli Cheddar Quiche or Breakfast Quiche.

Got ripe bananas ripening on the counter? Here’s a decadent way to use them: this Chocolate Chip Banana Bread! This recipe takes the standard up a notch by using browned butter, infusing a rich, nutty flavor into the entire loaf. It’s perfectly moist, studded with semi-sweet bits of chocolate and scented with just the right hint of cinnamon.

Here’s how to make an incredible pan pizza at home! It’s got thick pillowy crust and tastes like your favorite pizzeria…but even better.

Ready for the BEST apple muffins? The streusel topping adds a sweet crunch to each bite, and they feature both applesauce and diced apple. To die for!

This chocolate zucchini cake recipe comes out so rich and chocolaty! It’s a fan favorite that happens to be dairy free and gluten free.

This sweet potato bread recipe is moist, sweet and cinnamon spiced! It's a quick bread that’s ideal as a side dish or snack.

This easy blueberry cake recipe is stunning: it’s fluffy, lightly sweet, and scented with lemon. Perfect for dessert or brunch!

Three words: strawberry rhubarb pie. This iconic pie filling is famous for a reason: it’s just that good. Sweet tart stalks of pink rhubarb are the perfect foil for sweet summer berries. When you taste this thick, gooey filling, you’ll understand. Bake it up in a flaky pastry crust, and there’s really nothing better.

If it's not rhubarb season, substitute more strawberries for rhubarb and decrease the sugar by ¼ cup.

An unexpected thing to bake? Grilled cheese! Baking it in the oven is a quick way to make lots of sandwiches at once! Baked grilled cheese comes out melty and golden brown.

This popovers recipe is fast and easy: bake them up in a muffin pan! They’re easy and taste beautifully savory and fluffy right out of the oven.

This scones recipe makes beautifully golden and sweet scones: you can use butter, vegan butter or coconut oil! Add fruit like blueberries and an easy icing drizzle.

Got zucchini? This easy zucchini bread recipe will become a family favorite: it’s moistened by Greek yogurt and so fast to whip up.

What’s better than a crunchy fresh French artisan baguette? (Almost nothing.) Well, here’s an easy baguette recipe you can make at home! It’s simple to make: there’s no special equipment required! The only ingredients you need are all-purpose flour, yeast and salt. You will be absolutely amazed at the crunchy texture, tangy flavor, and beautiful long loaf. 

Last up in our top things to bake: Chocolate Banana Muffins! Wow, is all we can say about this one! They’re dark chocolaty with a light crunch on top and a moist interior.