686 denise recipes

Depression-era eggless, milkless, butterless cake with brown sugar, raisins, ginger, and cinnamon. A simple wartime recipe that bakes into a spiced, dense loaf with minimal pantry staples.

Guinness cake with dried fruit soaked overnight in dark beer, brown sugar, and apple pie spice. A dense, moist Irish fruit cake thats rich with malty stout flavor.

Grant Avenue chews are chewy date and walnut bars with brown sugar rolled in powdered sugar. A San Francisco Chinatown-inspired cookie bar that's dense, sweet, and nutty.

Double chocolate bundt cake made with devil's food cake mix, chocolate pudding, sour cream, and a full bag of chocolate chips. Dense, fudgy, and finished with powdered sugar.

Old-fashioned Pennsylvania ginger cakes with molasses, brown sugar, and a butter-lard shortening blend baked in muffin pans. Dense, spicy, and rich with that deep molasses flavor.

Grandma's plum pudding: a traditional steamed Christmas pudding with raisins, currants, citrus peel, suet, and warm spices. Three hours of slow steaming for a dense, fragrant holiday dessert.

New England-style steamed brown bread with graham flour, molasses, raisins, and a long 3-hour steam in a covered tin. Dense, dark, traditional companion to baked beans.

Palm Beach brownies are dense, fudgy, and almost truffle-rich. The Maida Heatter classic with eight ounces of unsweetened chocolate, espresso, almond extract, and walnuts. Yields 36 squares.

Mocha chocolate cheesecake blends instant coffee and melted semi-sweet chocolate into a dense, ultra-creamy cream cheese filling on a graham crust. NY-style two-temperature bake.

Buttermilk pound cake with brown sugar, plumped currants, anise extract, and orange marmalade glaze. A dense, deeply flavored tube-pan cake with caramel undertones and old-fashioned charm.

Rich chocolate cheesecake with two pounds of cream cheese, melted semi-sweet chocolate, sour cream, and a chocolate wafer crust. A dense, fudgy showstopper baked low and slow.

Applesauce fudgy brownies use applesauce, egg whites, and a splash of Kahlua to slash the fat without losing the dense chew. Cocoa-forward, peanut butter accent, no oil.

Maple butterscotch brownies (blondies) packed with brown sugar, walnuts, and warm maple flavor. Chewy New England-style bar cookie with a caramel-rich crumb and dense, fudgy center.

Date and nut bars with chopped dates, pecans, and powdered sugar rolled into chewy little squares. An old-fashioned cookie bar that's dense, fruity, and naturally sweet with minimal flour.

Chocolate chip sour cream cake baked in a tube pan with a hidden layer of chocolate chips and cinnamon sugar on top. A dense, moist coffee cake-style dessert.

Orange-almond sour cream cake with chocolate chips, orange flower water, and a Grand Marnier orange syrup soaked into the warm crumb. A dense, fragrant Bundt cake that keeps for days and freezes for months.