Dessert recipe collection

White chocolate cheesecake with fresh raspberry sauce, sour cream tang, and a cocoa dust ring. Crustless, creamy, and baked just 25 minutes for a silky, barely-set center.

White chocolate mousse spiked with rum, served in crispy homemade almond tuile cookie cups with raspberry puree and creme fraiche. A showstopping French-inspired dessert.

Old-fashioned white Christmas fudge loaded with pecans, walnuts, candied cherries, and candied pineapple. Cooked to soft ball stage for a creamy, melt-in-your-mouth texture.

White coconut cake with a tender crumb from cake flour and folded meringue, covered in boiled white frosting and showered with flaked coconut. A classic Southern layer cake.

White chocolate mousse cake layered between sheets of genoise with candied citrus peel, pine nuts and shaved white chocolate curls. An elegant layered dessert with bright grapefruit, orange and lemon zest running through every bite.

Whole wheat carrot pineapple cake is a moist, dairy-free, low-fat one-bowl cake sweetened with applesauce and pineapple. No oil, no butter, no yolks, all the carrot cake flavor.

Whole wheat honey cookies use 100% whole wheat flour and honey instead of refined sugar for a wholesome drop cookie with chewy texture and nutty depth. Eight ingredients, 20 minutes start to finish, kid-lunchbox approved.

Whole-wheat snickerdoodles sweetened with pure maple syrup and rolled in cinnamon sugar. A nuttier, more wholesome take on the classic crackle-topped cinnamon cookie.

Whole wheat snickerdoodles swap half the white flour for whole wheat, giving these classic cinnamon-sugar cookies a nuttier, heartier crumb. Cream of tartar gives them their signature tang and chewy texture. Three dozen from one batch.

Whole-wheat sourdough applesauce cake bakes up moist and tender in a tube pan, with cinnamon, allspice, and clove warming a tangy starter-and-applesauce batter. A bundt-shaped keeper for fall.

Classic whoopie pies with soft chocolate cake rounds sandwiched around a fluffy marshmallow cream filling. A New England bakery favorite made from scratch at home.

Wild blackberry pie with a homemade boiling water pastry crust, cinnamon-sugar filling, and lemon juice. A double-crust fruit pie with a tender, flaky dough from scratch.

Yum yum cake is a sour-cream chocolate layer cake with cocoa powder batter and melted chocolate chip frosting. Old-fashioned church-cookbook favorite with lunchbox simplicity.

Anise almond biscotti baked twice for that signature crunch. Shaped into horseshoes, sliced, and dried low and slow. Keeps for weeks in a jar. Built for dunking.

Zebra bars layer chocolate and vanilla batter in a 13x9 pan, topped with chocolate chips and walnuts. Two-toned cookie bars from one butter-brown sugar dough.

Tender zucchini bundt cake spiced with cinnamon and studded with nuts, crowned with tangy lemon cream cheese frosting. Elegant from-scratch dessert for summer gatherings.