Recipes with powdered sugar

Sour cream Christmas cut-out cookies with a tender, slightly tangy dough, finished with a buttery coffee frosting. Makes 6 dozen cookies. Chill dough overnight for clean edges when cutting shapes.

Lemon icebox pie layers a sweet cream cheese cushion under tangy lemon pudding, all in an almond-cookie crust topped with whipped cream and crushed lemon drops. Three-layer no-bake-friendly dessert.

No-bake tiramisu cake with angel food cake soaked in espresso and amaretto, layered with ricotta-mascarpone cream and topped with grated chocolate.

No-bake tiramisu cake with angel food cake soaked in espresso and amaretto, layered with ricotta-mascarpone cream and topped with grated chocolate.

Cream cheese pinwheel cookies filled with cinnamon, sugar, and chopped pecans. A tender, flaky dough rolled jelly-roll style and sliced into swirled rounds.

Soft banana cookies with brown butter penuche frosting: mashed ripe bananas in a cake-like dough, topped with a boiled brown sugar icing that hardens into a shiny, fudgy shell.

Swedish pancakes (plattar) made with a thin egg batter cooked in a platt pan, served with lingonberry preserves, butter, and powdered sugar. Light, crepe-like, and Scandinavian.

This buttery and moist Irish style coffee cake is so easy to make, and it always impresses everyone!

Classic German Lebkuchen: spiced honey bars with almonds and candied citrus peel, glazed with lemon icing and dotted with cherries. Centuries-old Nuremberg Christmas tradition.

Spiced brown sugar bundt cake with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and cloves, baked with chopped pecans and finished with a butterscotch glaze. Holiday-table ready.

Chocolate raisin snacking cake with cocoa, cinnamon, and chopped nuts, made in one saucepan. Raisins get simmered first to plump them up, and the warm cooking liquid goes right into the batter.

Peanut butter balls dipped in melted chocolate get mini M&M irises pressed into the center for spooky Halloween eyeball treats that kids love making and eating.

Chocolate raspberry Linzer cookies sandwich cinnamon-almond shortbread with melted chocolate and raspberry jam. Powdered-sugar tops with a window peek of berry filling.

Russian tea cakes with a buttery shortbread base, a thumbprint of jam or chopped walnuts, and a snowfall of powdered sugar. Holiday cookie tin classic.

Russian tea cakes with a buttery shortbread base, a thumbprint of jam or chopped walnuts, and a snowfall of powdered sugar. Holiday cookie tin classic.

Mississippi Pecan Mud Cake with Chocolate Frosting recipe