Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Old fashioned fruit cake with blackberry jam, fig preserves, watermelon rind preserves, candied cherries, pecans, and cocoa. Baked low and slow in a cast iron skillet.

No-bake eggnog cheesecake built on a crumb crust, with sieved cottage cheese, gelatin, and whipped cream folded into a spiced eggnog custard. Light, airy, and finished with a dusting of nutmeg.

Tender cream cheese cookies wrapped around walnut halves and dusted in powdered sugar. Just 5 ingredients, melt-in-your-mouth rich. Makes 2 dozen elegant bon bons.

German-style fruit kuchen with sliced nectarines and plums arranged over a buttery almond-scented press-in crust, finished with a warm peach jam glaze.

Spiced applesauce bars studded with raisins and walnuts, topped with decorative walnut halves before baking into soft squares.

Chocolate cream torte with crisp almond meringue layers stacked with a chocolate-marshmallow whipped cream filling. A show-stopping gluten-free dessert that chills overnight.

Lighter cheesecake made with Neufchatel and blended cottage cheese for a tangy, creamy filling with less fat than classic versions. Graham cracker dusted pan, no crust fuss.

Crazy cake (depression cake) is an egg-free, dairy-free chocolate cake mixed directly in the baking pan with cocoa, oil, vinegar, and water. Vegan-friendly and ridiculously easy.

Thin, crispy maple cookies made with real maple syrup and maple extract, rolled and cut into shapes. Top with coconut, cream cheese, buttercream, or sandwich with jam.

Old-fashioned oatmeal cake with broiled Lazy Daisy frosting of brown sugar, butter, evaporated milk, and chopped nuts. Vintage American sheet cake with a caramelized topping.

Rich, fudgy Mississippi mud cake loaded with coconut, crunchy nuts, and gooey marshmallow cream under a thick cocoa frosting. A Southern classic that's sinfully easy to make from scratch.

Loaded oatmeal cookies packed with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, raisins, and walnuts in a brown sugar and cinnamon dough. Chewy, chunky, and stuffed with mix-ins.

Chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips and chopped nuts. The reverse chocolate chip cookie: dark cocoa dough studded with sweet white chips and toasted pecans, walnuts, or almonds.

Chewy brown sugar cookies loaded with green candy-coated chocolate pieces. A fun, festive cookie for St. Patrick's Day baking that makes 3 dozen in just 30 minutes.

Maple ginger snap cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar with real maple syrup, ground ginger, cloves, and cinnamon. Crispy, spiced, and coated in a sparkly sugar crust.

One silky custard base, five showstopping cream pies. This stovetop filling comes together in minutes with pantry staples, then transforms into banana, butterscotch, coconut, or chocolate cream pie with simple swaps.