Dessert recipe collection

This is a wonderful, dense, almost brownie-like cake.

Classic lemon squares with a shortbread base and a tart-sweet lemon curd topping baked on a pre-baked crust. Powdered sugar dusted. Twelve squares per batch.

Mango cream pie pulls together mango puree, sweetened condensed milk, lime juice, and optional rum into a gelatin-set filling poured over a baked crust. Whipped cream on top, mint to finish. A tropical no-cook treat.

Favourite Oatmeal Cake with Pecan Coconut Crumb recipe

Peaches and cream cheesecake bars: a vanilla pudding-spiked cake base topped with sliced peaches and a dollop-and-swirl cream cheese layer, dusted with cinnamon sugar. Sheet pan dessert that feeds 16.

Pig cake is the Southern potluck classic: a moist mandarin-orange cake topped with a fluffy pineapple, vanilla pudding, and whipped topping frosting. Light, fruity, and made with a cake-mix shortcut. Keeps cool in the fridge.

Diabetic-friendly pumpkin cheese pie layers sweetened cream cheese under a spiced pumpkin custard in a single shell. Sugar replacement keeps the carb count down without losing the holiday flavor.

Favourite Red Devil's Food Cake with Creamy Vanilla Frosting recipe

Favourite Shaker sugar pie with brown sugar and flour bedded under half-and-half, vanilla, and butter pieces dotted across the top. A simple pioneer dessert that bakes into a silky no-egg custard.

Tyler pie, the classic Virginia heritage custard pie with brown sugar, vanilla, fresh nutmeg, and folded egg whites. Old-fashioned Southern dessert with simple pantry staples.

Classic vinegar pie with a smooth egg-rich custard filling, Depression-era pantry baking that mimics lemon pie using kitchen vinegar. Six ingredients, sweet-tart, satisfying.

Microwave strawberry cheesecake lightened with stiffly beaten egg whites for an airy, mousse-like texture. A no-bake-style cheesecake on a zwieback crust with sour cream topping and fresh strawberries.

Fig fruit cake with dried figs, candied cherries, pineapple, walnuts, brandy, and unsweetened chocolate. A spiced holiday loaf baked low and slow for dense, sliceable richness.

Southern fig preserve cake baked in a tube pan with warm spices, buttermilk, chopped pecans, and a generous swirl of fig jam, finished with a buttermilk glaze.

Old-fashioned filled sugar cookies with a cooked raisin and nut filling sandwiched between two thin, almond-scented sugar cookie rounds. A classic heirloom cookie recipe.

Finikia are Greek torpedo-shaped semolina cookies scented with orange and cinnamon, baked golden then dipped in a honey-cinnamon syrup and rolled in sesame or walnuts. Traditional Christmas melomakarona.