Dessert, Snack Recipes

No-bake peanut butter bars with graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar, and melted chocolate on top. Tastes just like a Reese's cup in bar form. Ready in 15 minutes.

Sugar-free strawberry ice made with pureed strawberries, lemon juice, and sugar replacement. A light, diabetic-friendly frozen dessert with almost no calories.

Fruit sparkles are a fizzy sugar-free jello dessert made with sparkling water or club soda and fresh fruit. A light, low-calorie summer treat.

M&M's chocolate macadamia chewies are soft, chewy drop cookies loaded with shredded coconut, buttery macadamia nuts, and mini M&M's baking bits. A tropical-meets-candy-shop twist on the classic chocolate chip cookie.

Banana walnut snack cake starts with a cake mix and adds mashed banana, buttermilk, and chopped walnuts. A quick semi-homemade cake that tastes like banana bread.

No-bake chocolate peanut butter snack bar with oats and raisins. Just 5 ingredients, 10 minutes, and a quick freeze. A Weight Watchers friendly grab-and-go treat.

This is a quick & easy recipe that tastes great with hot tea or coffee! Dense and very chocolately.

This co-winner in the filled-cookie category from Gerry Cofta of Milwaukee has a great, rich flavor in the filling.

Eggless chocolate banana snack cake with mashed ripe banana, cocoa, brown sugar, and a vinegar-baking soda lift. Topped with melted chocolate chips. A no-egg, no-dairy 8-inch square cake.

Great and simple gift-idea! And the result tastes great as well.

This coffee cake is a great morning treat either with the family or with a friend. It is moist and soft. Great served warm or at room temperature.

I liked these a lot. The poppyseed taste is subtle yet makes them a little different and more "elegant" than ordinary butter cookies.

These muffins are great. They are not too sweet, have just the right amount of cream cheese, and are nice and filling.

Buttermilk snack cake with mini marshmallows and chocolate chips folded into the batter, topped with a brown sugar walnut crumble. A one-pan crowd-pleaser.

Dried figs and dates stuffed with walnut halves and rolled in shredded coconut. A three-ingredient no-cook treat ready in five minutes.

Gloreos, a homemade copycat Oreo: deep-chocolate cake-mix cookies sandwiched with a fluffy vanilla cream filling. The gelatin-set filling stays firm, just like the real thing. A fun batch-bake for cookie lovers.