Recipes with powdered sugar

Frosted applesauce cookies with molasses, bran flakes, raisins, and a boiled caramel frosting. Soft, spiced drop cookies with warm allspice and clove flavors topped with buttery brown sugar icing.

Iowa applesauce cake, a moist spiced sheet cake with raisins and walnuts, crowned with tangy cream cheese frosting and dusted through a paper doily. Heartland baking at its cozy best.

Classic Girl Scout-style trefoil shortbread cookies with butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Roll-and-cut sugar cookies for the trefoil cutter, makes 4 dozen.

Peanut butter bars are no-bake crowd-pleasers with a graham cracker and peanut butter base topped with melted chocolate. Five ingredients, one pan, refrigerate overnight. Buckeyes in bar form.

German chocolate layered apple cake with sliced apples and cinnamon-nut batter in alternating layers, topped with cream cheese frosting. A semi-homemade cake that tastes fully from scratch.

Rich, fudgy Mississippi mud cake loaded with coconut, crunchy nuts, and gooey marshmallow cream under a thick cocoa frosting. A Southern classic that's sinfully easy to make from scratch.

Classic shortbread cookies packed with ground nuts and rolled in powdered sugar while warm. This cherished family recipe makes 60 tender cookies perfect for gifting or holiday parties.

A European-style carrot cake with walnuts, whipped egg whites for lightness, and a layered filling of cream cheese, jam, and sweetened whipped cream. Elegant and unforgettable.

This showstopper three-layer chocolate buttermilk cake gets its velvety crumb from tangy buttermilk and sour cream, while instant coffee deepens the cocoa flavor. Each layer splits in half for six tender tiers.

Rich chocolate pumpkin mini bundt cakes with warm pumpkin pie spice, topped with an orange-tinted brown sugar frosting and cookie stems. Adorable fall treats that taste as good as they look.

Three-layer carrot cake baked low and slow with grated carrots, chopped nuts, and cinnamon, topped with a thick cream cheese icing. A Southern-style classic that never goes out of style.

Moist chocolate banana cake made without eggs, loaded with cocoa, chocolate chips, and crunchy pecans. Buttermilk and ripe bananas keep it fudgy while brown sugar adds deep caramel sweetness.

Mocha toffee crescents are buttery espresso-laced shortbread cookies studded with toffee chips, shaped into crescents and dipped in dark chocolate. Cookie tin showstoppers.

Mocha toffee crescents are buttery espresso-laced shortbread cookies studded with toffee chips, shaped into crescents and dipped in dark chocolate. Cookie tin showstoppers.

Brown sugar cookie dough balls pressed onto pecan halves arranged like tiny turtle legs, then baked and topped with glossy chocolate frosting. Adorable, crunchy, and completely addictive holiday cookies.

A puffy, golden Dutch baby pancake baked in a hot cast iron skillet with butter, eggs, milk, and a hint of nutmeg. Finished with lemon juice and powdered sugar for a dramatic brunch centerpiece.