Recipes with powdered sugar

Butterscotch dandy cake folds homemade hard-ball butterscotch syrup into a tender two-layer cake, then crowns it with a cooked brown sugar buttercream. A real-deal Southern butterscotch cake from scratch.

Lemon pound cake using cake mix and a full cup of lemon curd for intense citrus flavor, studded with walnuts and topped with fresh lemon glaze. Just 5 ingredients.

Choux pastry puffs studded with chocolate chips and dusted with powdered sugar create elegant French-inspired cookies that look harder to make than they are.

Moist chocolate oatmeal cake topped with a boiled coconut-pecan frosting. The oats soak in boiling water first, creating an incredibly tender, fudgy crumb.

Yeasted coffee cake with a sour cream dough, sweet cream cheese filling rolled jelly-roll style, and vanilla glaze with sliced almonds. An overnight rise makes it brunch-ready.

New Orleans-style bread pudding loaded with pecans, raisins, and apple, baked low and slow in spiced custard, then drenched in a rich bourbon butter sauce. Pure Southern indulgence.

Pumpkin cookies with caramel frosting, they're so good it's hard to eat just one. Great to make in a advance and freeze.

Simple butter cookies with just six ingredients roll, cut, and decorate easily for endless holiday shapes that stay soft and tender straight from the oven.

Peanut butter bonbons are no-bake candy balls of chunky peanut butter and powdered sugar dipped in chocolate and rolled in chopped nuts. Six ingredients, no oven, no baking. Holiday cookie tray favorite.

Classic butter pecan snowball cookies rolled in powdered sugar while warm for melt-in-your-mouth tender bites packed with toasted nuts.

These are super and duper, just like the name. Creamy, rich and heavenly delicious!

Easy cappuccino bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, espresso powder, cinnamon, chocolate chips, and hazelnuts. Dusted with powdered sugar and served with sweetened ricotta.

Surprise-center butter cookies with 4 hidden fillings: Andes mints, cherries, chocolate chips, and pecans. Each batch gets its own color-coded icing. A fun holiday baking project.

Layered no-bake chocolate pie with a buttery pecan crust, cream cheese filling, chocolate pudding, and whipped topping. This Southern potluck legend feeds 15 and vanishes in minutes flat.

Apple apricot strudels wrapped in flaky phyllo pastry with slivered almonds, bread crumbs, and a hint of nutmeg. Dusted with powdered sugar, served warm with custard.

Classic New Orleans king cake: a brioche-like yeast ring scented with nutmeg and lemon, filled with citron, glazed with lemon icing and purple-green-gold sugar. Mardi Gras tradition baked at home.

This Pumpkin Cookie Recipe was shared with me and I am happy to pass it on to you. A light and fluffy Pumpkin Cookie that is easy to prepare. The browned butter flavored frosting adds a touch of sweetness.

Pillowy drop cookies bursting with fresh orange zest and tang from sour cream, crowned with a citrus glaze that sets into sweet perfection.

Elodie's chocolate cake is a French-style dense bake with 10 oz bittersweet chocolate and just 5 tablespoons of flour - intensely fudgy, rich, and make-ahead friendly.

Rich chocolate bundt cake studded with nuts and crowned with a velvety mocha cream cheese frosting. Inspired by the legendary Waldorf Astoria, this showstopper is pure old-school elegance.

Kentucky blackberry jam cake bakes a deeply spiced cake with blackberry jam, pineapple-soaked raisins, pecans, and warm cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. Heirloom Southern holiday cake.

Pfeffernuesse German pepper cookies with molasses, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and black pepper, rolled in powdered sugar. Small, spicy, and deeply aromatic holiday cookies from the old country.

Delicate phyllo triangles filled with spiced apples, toasted pine nuts, and lemon zest, brushed with butter and baked until golden and crisp.

Velvety brandy sauce made in 5 minutes with butter, powdered sugar, and brandy extract. Drizzle over bread pudding, holiday cakes, or warm fruit desserts for an instant upgrade.

Aunt Catherine's Italian Cookies: a heirloom cookie with almond extract, cinnamon, and chopped nuts, finished in pastel-colored powdered sugar icing. Stores for months in tins.

Festival Half Moon Cookies with Chocolate Frosting recipe

Chocolate chip pumpkin cheesecake: silky pumpkin-spice cream cheese filling studded with mini chocolate chips over a chocolate cookie crust, garnished with real chocolate leaves. A showstopping fall dessert.

A simple but tasty almond paste that could be used for toast, cakes and even muffins.

Soft rolled molasses cookies with gentle ginger and cinnamon, topped with a simple egg white icing. Kid-friendly spice level and great for cookie cutters.

German Christmas stollen with rum-soaked currants, sultanas, chopped almonds, candied peel, and cottage cheese for a moist, rich holiday bread dusted in powdered sugar.

Joy's carrot cake folds crushed pineapple, pecans, and cinnamon into a tender crumb, finished with cream cheese icing loaded with coconut, raisins, and toasted nuts. A bakery-style classic.

Spiced chocolate glaze with warm cinnamon, made from cocoa powder, corn syrup, and oil. Stir over low heat until shiny, then drizzle over cakes or cookies.

Chocolate malt cake with malted milk powder in both the batter and frosting, made with cocoa, half-and-half, and butter. A nostalgic malt shop flavor in cake form.

Jelly bean confetti cake with cream cheese, butter, and miniature jelly beans baked in a fluted Bundt pan. A colorful, fun celebration cake dusted with powdered sugar.

Fat-free pumpkin raisin cake made with egg whites, canned pumpkin, and orange juice instead of oil or butter. Served with a simple yogurt cream sauce.

Brown sugar sour cream cookies wrapped around walnut-stuffed dates, baked and topped with a vanilla sour cream icing. A unique, old-fashioned holiday cookie.

Mocha icebox cake layers ladyfingers with a silky coffee custard filling, then chills overnight into a sliceable, cake-like dessert. Topped with sweetened whipped cream for an old-fashioned coffee lover's treat.

Three-layer pecan fudge cake made with unsweetened chocolate in both the batter and frosting. Rich, dense, and loaded with chopped pecans throughout.

Chocolate red beet cake: deep cocoa cake with mashed beets baked into a moist, tender crumb you'd never guess was hiding a vegetable. An old-school secret-ingredient cake.

White cake mix studded with chopped Oreos and layered with homemade vanilla frosting. A two-layer cookies and cream celebration cake that comes together with minimal fuss.

Fairy cookies made with both powdered and granulated sugar, margarine, and oil for a melt-in-your-mouth texture. A big batch sugar cookie recipe that bakes up light, tender, and crisp.

Orange pistachio Bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, pistachio pudding, and orange juice, marbled with chocolate syrup and topped with a cocoa glaze. A stunning retro dessert.

This moist and flavorful cake uses is built off of a yellow cake mix and instant pudding. It is easy to make no matter how much baking experience you have!

So very rich, so very wonderful. The candied cherries and raisins are sure to make you hungry for more.

An authentic Dutch cheesecake made with grated Gouda cheese instead of cream cheese, lightened with beaten egg whites and studded with golden raisins. Baked in a shortbread tart crust with lemon.

Alice's chocolate cake bakes a moist two-layer cocoa cake using boiling water for extra-deep chocolate flavor, then frosts with a from-scratch buttery cocoa-powdered sugar icing. The reliable birthday cake home bakers swear by.

Molasses Doughnuts are spiced yeasted doughnuts with cinnamon, ginger, and half a cup of molasses - bread machine dough, deep-fried, and shaken in sugar while still warm.

Elegant almond paste cookies piped into logs, baked until golden, then dipped in chocolate and chopped almonds. Bakery-style treats perfect for gift-giving.