Dessert, Egg Recipes

Loaded oatmeal cookies packed with bittersweet chocolate chunks, raisins, and pecans. Chewy centers with crisp golden edges from a brown sugar butter dough.

Date bars with whole dates stuffed with pecans pressed into a brown sugar and sour cream batter. A touch of ginger and a dusting of powdered sugar finish them off.

Croatian poppy seed povitica with a yeasted sweet dough stretched paper-thin and rolled around a honey-sweetened poppy seed filling. Traditional Eastern European holiday bread.

What can I say but delicious. Made this Jewish cookie the first time in my life, and I was impressed! Definitely a sweet cake. If you have a sweet tooth like I do, you will love it.

Apple cobbler cake: a dense, oil-based bundt cake loaded with chopped apples and toasted pecans. Moist, fruit-heavy and fall-friendly. The kind of cake that lives on the kitchen counter.

Rocks cookies with oats, brown sugar, figs, nuts, and warm spices in a bumpy, hearty drop cookie. An old-fashioned spiced oatmeal cookie loaded with dried fruit and chopped nuts.

Authentic Sicilian cannoli made from scratch with Marsala wine shells, ricotta filling, candied orange peel, and chocolate. Fried golden and dusted with powdered sugar for a true Italian pastry shop experience.

Vanilla sheet cake split and filled with a whipped butter-shortening cream made with evaporated milk. Cut into squares for individual cream-filled cakes that taste like homemade Twinkies.

Cream puff cake built on a from-scratch choux pastry crust, layered with a vanilla pudding and cream cheese filling, whipped topping, and a chocolate drizzle. Tastes like a giant eclair in 9x13 form.

Jamaican banana bread custard with dark rum, apricot preserves, and a rich egg custard baked over bread and ripe bananas. Warm, tropical bread pudding.

Pumpkin pie cake is a fall dump-cake with creamy spiced pumpkin pie filling on the bottom, dry yellow cake mix on top, then melted butter and pecans. A no-crust pumpkin dessert hybrid.

Chewy oatmeal cookies packed with semi-sweet chocolate and butterscotch chips for a sweet-salty one-two punch. Makes 60 golden cookies with crispy edges and soft, oat-studded centers.

Light, airy no-bake cheesecake made with blended cottage cheese, gelatin, and bright lemon, crowned with tangy lemon curd topping for a refreshing make-ahead dessert.

Impossible blender coconut pie that forms its own crust while baking. Everything blended together and poured into a greased pie plate for a self-crusting coconut custard pie.

Bourbon-pecan pumpkin pie with a spiced custard filling, candied pecan topping in brown sugar butter, and a flambeed bourbon finish. A Thanksgiving showstopper.

A two-layer pie with spiced butternut squash custard on the bottom and a gooey pecan pie filling on top, sweetened with maple syrup and dark brown sugar. A Midwest Thanksgiving stunner.