Dessert recipe collection

Ultra-tender shortbread cookies with a full pound of unsalted butter, sweetened condensed milk, and cornstarch for a melt-on-your-tongue crumble. Baked low and slow until barely golden.

Towering deep-dish strawberry pie loaded with fresh whole berries set in a glossy cooked glaze. The classic American berry pie that needs no oven baking once the crust is done.

Make-ahead oatmeal pecan cookies shaped into logs, chilled, then sliced and baked fresh whenever you need them. Freezer-friendly dough lasts 3 months.

Two-layer apricot bars with a buttery shortbread base and a chewy brown sugar-apricot-nut topping, rolled in powdered sugar. Makes 75 bite-sized bars from one pan.

Oatmeal coconut cake with a soft cinnamon-spiced crumb and a broiled brown-sugar coconut-nut topping that bubbles into a chewy caramel crown. Lazy Daisy-style, the way grandma made it.

Sour Cream Banana Cake with Butter Lemon Frosting recipe

Vintage Midwest Jell-O salad with lime gelatin, sour cream, crushed pineapple, pecans, and maraschino cherries. No baking required. Set, slice into squares, and top with whipped cream.

Easy bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, orange Jell-O, apricot nectar, and chopped nuts. Finished with a tart sour orange glaze. Mix everything in one bowl, bake, and glaze. Serves 8.

Spiced Angel-Food Cake with Cran-Apple Topping recipe

This bread pudding is moist and incredibly flavorful with a crunchy top. I make it every Christmas, or whenever a baguette is left out for too long, not that that ever happens in our house.

Spiced pound cake soaked with a fragrant orange-basil syrup. The warm syrup is slowly drizzled into the cake so it soaks deep into every slice, creating a moist, citrus-scented loaf with a hint of fresh herb.

Berry blue Jello shots made with vodka and extra unflavored gelatin for a firm, sliceable set. Just 4 ingredients and 5 minutes of prep for your next party.

Diabetic-friendly sponge cake sweetened with artificial sweetener, flavored with pineapple juice and orange. Light, airy tube cake with no added sugar.

A spiced steamed pudding loaded with dates, apples, and walnuts, served warm with a silky vanilla custard sauce. An old-fashioned British-style dessert for holiday entertaining.

A fudgy chocolate brownie cake steamed in a pot-within-a-pot using shelf-stable ingredients like dried eggs and buttermilk powder. Ideal for camping, off-grid baking, or when you don't have an oven.

Buttery brown sugar cookies with a hint of cinnamon, sliced from a chilled dough log and baked until golden. Topped with a simple powdered sugar frosting that makes every bite melt on your tongue.