10 Recipes to Try:

Baking is stressful. But with the right recipes, it can be an enjoyable experience that ends in cake. So if you're anything like me, turn on NPR, take out your ingredients, and try some of these great recipes!

Gluten Free & Vegan Pumpkin Brownies

It's fall. Pumpkins are everywhere. You need something to bring to your friend's party but you're not sure if some people may have dietary restrictions, so you need something on the safe side. These are the perfect brownies for your situation.

Coffee Chocolate Cupcakes

How do I consume a lot of caffeine but in a cute, aesthetic way? With these cupcakes! You'll get a great instagram and be the perfect amount of jittery when the sugar rush and the coffee kick in. Nice!

Chocolate Walnut Rugelach

Do you want to make a dessert, but cookies and cupcakes are too mainstream? Did you sign up for a bake-sale too late and someone already called making brownies? This recipe is perfect for you!

Banana Fosters Smores

You love smores. We all love smores. But we also all love making things more complicated. These banana fosters smores will combine both those loves into something that can either be delicious or a burnt mess, but hey, the gamble is part of the fun!

"Snickers" Bars

What's easier: running to CVS and getting a snickers bar or making your own and using quotation marks to avoid copyright laws? The latter of course! Make your own "snickers" bars and make your own wrapping, heck, start your own CVS if you want to! You can do anything you put your mind to.

Chocolate Ganache Tartlettes with Peaches

Because adding fruit to a dessert makes it healthy, right? And what's a more regal fruit than a pear?

Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

It's a cookie! It's a cake! It's superman! It has bananas and nuts and chocolate because it can't make up it's mind about anything can it?

Butter Pecan Cake with Caramel Frosting

Listen. I know none of us really like butter pecan but some people do, and they'll get really hype if you make them this cake. You can eat the leftover caramel frosting which is also a plus.

Blueberry Oat Cheesecake Bars

Could you eat a whole pan of these? Yes. Will you? Probably. Will you regret it? Only if you're lactose intolerant.

Peach Coffee Cake

Tell everyone this is an old family recipe from your great-great-great-grandmother who lived in Georgia. They'll be so impressed by your story they won't notice the fact that they're eating fruit for dessert.

Try these or just eat chocolate chips straight out of the bag whatever you want.