Molasses

Chinese five-spice gives classic crackle cookies a delightfully warming flavor and alluring aroma.

A festive, elegant gingerbread cake infused with orange and warm spices, and capped with a glossy dark chocolate ganache.

With pounds of dried fruit and glugs of dark rum, this is a recipe for serious fruitcake fans.

Molasses keeps these cookies magically supple for days.

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

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

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

Rich, smoky, and complexly sweet, these from-scratch baked beans are worth the long—mostly hands-off—cook time.

When you can’t decide between cake and cookie, bake classic New England hermits, which are dense, chewy, and spiced with Christmas flavors.

This barbecue chicken has the crackliest, stickiest skin.

They're crisp, chewy, and remind me of everything good about the season—without any of the gimmicks.

Yes, there are multi ingredients in these multigrain cookies, but that’s what makes them so over the top.

Barbecue god Aaron Franklin and his team came up with the recipe for this sticky-sweet pork shoulder you’ll want to make all summer.

The molasses glaze is key.

Now all we need is a cup of eggnog.

This recipe from Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q in Atlanta is—how do we put this–epic.

To ensure these don’t break, use a couple of layers of parchment paper or foil in the baking dish and make sure they’re completely cooled before removing them.

Everything you need to know about that weird, sweet, dark sweetener called molasses.

People who love black licorice will flip for these assertively flavored candies. They’ll be not-quite-black without the food coloring but still very cool looking.

Richly spiced gingerbread with the texture of a moist, dense devil’s food cake, this recipe only gets better if you make it ahead.

You can use the same weight in regular apples for this gingerbread cake recipe, but don’t the little lady apples just look so awesome?!

Upgrade your morning coffee with these creative add-ins, courtesy of Lem Butler, 2016's US Barista Champion.

There's nothing like the warm spice and chew of a ginger molasses cookie. Come to think of it, when the temperature drops, molasses makes everything better. Just ask these 25 recipes.

Everything you need to know about baking with less sugar and alternative sweeteners, like honey, maple syrup, and coconut sugar.