Dessert, Egg Recipes

Honey pumpkin cookies sweetened with honey instead of sugar. Soft, cake-style drop cookies with raisins, pecans, cinnamon, and nutmeg. No refined sugar.

Kahlua eggnog pie in a chocolate wafer crumb crust with a coffee-spiked custard filling lightened with whipped cream and meringue. A boozy, mousse-like holiday pie that chills overnight for effortless entertaining.

Pumpkin spice cake baked in canning jars with walnuts, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Individual-sized treats perfect for gifting or fall bake sales.

Frangelico chocolate cake with coffee-spiked cocoa frosting. Hazelnut liqueur and strong coffee deepen the chocolate flavor in this rich, two-layer celebration cake.

Chocolate potato cake made with hot mashed potatoes for an incredibly moist crumb, cocoa, cinnamon, and folded egg whites. Finished with tangy cream cheese frosting.

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.

Chocolate applesauce cake baked in canning jars and sealed while hot. A moist, fudgy cake with almond extract that makes a unique homemade gift.

Buttery anise-scented cookies with star anise seeds and extract, chilled overnight and baked golden for traditional New Mexican biscochitos.

This cake won me First Prize at the county fair last year. It is very chocolaty.

Fudgy chocolate sheet cake with a hint of cinnamon, topped with a buttery cocoa-pecan frosting made with sweetened condensed milk. Ready in 45 minutes flat.

Ruth's Whiskey Ice Box Cake is a no-bake vintage dessert: whiskey-spiked gelatin mousse layered between split ladyfingers and chilled overnight in a springform pan. A make-ahead showstopper.

Eggnog bread pudding baked in a water bath with cinnamon-raisin bread, brandy, nutmeg, and half-and-half, served with a cranberry-maple bourbon sauce. A festive holiday dessert.

Upside-down chocolate cake baked over a brown-sugar caramel with apricot halves and maraschino cherries. Cocoa-rich cake flipped onto the platter for a glossy fruit top.

Ultra-simple bundt cake mixing lemon cake mix with apricot nectar, eggs, and oil for a moist, citrus-kissed dessert.

Shasta Mountain brownies double down on chocolate with bittersweet chocolate, butter, eggs, and crushed chocolate chip cookies folded into the batter for a fudgy, soft-centered brownie speckled with toasted pecans.

Moist spice cake made with apricot baby food and puréed canned apricots, topped with boiled brown sugar icing.