Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Jellyroll layer cake with spiced sponge strips rolled into a spiral and frosted with English toffee icing. Looks like a regular cake but slices reveal vertical swirl layers.

Apple-cranberry pie with Golden Delicious apples, fresh cranberries, cinnamon, and nutmeg under a crunchy brown sugar crumble topping. A fall and holiday favorite.

Cloud-light chocolate angel food cake that's fat-free and cholesterol-free, leavened entirely by whipped egg whites and flavored with cocoa. An airy, guilt-light dessert with deep chocolate flavor.

Easy angel cookies use just three ingredients: angel food cake mix, water, and chopped fruit. Light, puffy, and ready in 20 minutes with no eggs, butter, or oil.

Reese's cookies loaded with peanut butter chips and milk chocolate chips in a soft, chewy drop cookie. That classic peanut butter-chocolate combo in every bite.

Old-fashioned chocolate cream pie with a silky stovetop cocoa custard and a high-piled toasted meringue. The Sunday-supper dessert dads have been requesting since the 1950s.

Pepsi-Cola cake with broiled peanut butter frosting: a Southern sheet cake made with a cup of Pepsi and melted marshmallows in the batter, topped with a bubbling brown sugar peanut butter frosting toasted under the broiler. Retro comfort baking at its most over-the-top.

Sandbakelse, traditional Scandinavian butter cookies with cardamom, pressed into mini tart tins and filled with jam. Delicate, sandy-textured holiday cookies dusted with powdered sugar.

Best of class senior contest--1950 Pillsbury Cookoff. This is a simple cake that looks fancy.

Lighter chocolate cake with oats, egg whites, skim milk, and fresh orange: 50% less fat but loaded with chocolate chips and bright citrus zest for moist, tender sheet cake.

No-bake cheesecake blending cream cheese, sour cream, and Cool Whip gets spread into graham cracker crusts and topped with cherry pie filling for easy refrigerator dessert.

Buttery sugar cookies studded with almond brickle bits for toffee crunch. Simple drop cookies flattened with a sugar-dipped glass for sparkly, crisp edges.

Packed with almonds, these glazed almond cookie slices make a great snack.

Almond torte made in the food processor with almond paste, butter, and a generous lift of eggs. Dense, marzipan-rich, and ideal with coffee. The processor method takes the work out of beating.

Buttery shortbread triangles studded with toffee brickle chips that melt into caramel pockets. Elegant one-pan bars with four flavor variations.

Classic New York-style cheesecake with a homemade cookie crust and citrus-scented cream cheese filling. Rich, dense, and worthy of the Lindy's legend.