Dessert recipe collection

Layered bar cookies with a butter shortbread base, apricot jam, and a cocoa-coconut-peanut meringue topping. Three distinct layers in every square.

Buttery shortbread base topped with a honey-almond caramel, double-baked into golden bars and cut while still warm. Crisp underneath, chewy on top.

Classic family cheesecake with a cinnamon graham cracker crust, rich cream cheese filling, and a whipped sour cream topping baked on in the final minutes. Chill 24 hours for the best texture.

Authentic Pennsylvania Dutch shoo fly pie with a deep molasses filling and spiced brown sugar crumb topping with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. A true wet-bottom pie from the Amish tradition.

Poppyseed cookies made with sweetened poppy seed paste folded into a buttery shortbread-style dough. Tender drop cookies with deep blue speckling and a powdered sugar finish.

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.

Strawberry cheesecake muffins hide a sweet cream cheese filling and a spoonful of strawberry jam in the middle of an almond-scented brown sugar muffin. Bakery-style brunch treat with a surprise center.

Whole wheat apple cake bars with wheat germ, walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Dense, fruity, and lightly spiced, cut into bars and dusted with powdered sugar.

A scrumptious dessert that is perfect thing to warm you and your tastebuds up on that cold winter night.

Baked apples ready fast: Granny Smith apples cored and stuffed with brown sugar and butter, dusted with cinnamon, and baked until the sugar caramelizes into a buttery syrup. A 4-ingredient fall dessert.

Baked apples stuffed with oats and brown sugar, dusted in cinnamon, and baked in a splash of grape juice until tender and bubbling. A cozy fall dessert with no butter and a warm, spiced finish.

Baked peaches from the Piedmont filled with crushed amaretti cookies, peach puree, sugar, and egg yolk. A classic Northern Italian summer dessert that's elegant and simple.

Baked peanut butter pie with a gooey corn syrup and egg custard filling in a flaky crust. Just six ingredients for a rich, Southern-style dessert that sets as it cools.

Baked pears with vanilla ice cream: firm pears poached in apple juice, lemon, and brown sugar syrup until tender, chilled overnight, and served cored-side up with a scoop of ice cream.

Baked bananas with lime juice and brown sugar caramel sauce. Use slightly underripe bananas, baste as they cook, and you get a glossy tropical dessert ready in 30 minutes with just 4 ingredients.

Baked bananas in a buttery caramel syrup scattered with raisins and pecans. A simple, old-fashioned dessert ready in 45 minutes, served warm with whipped cream.