Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Simple apple dessert bars with cinnamon-spiced apple slices beneath a thick oatmeal-brown sugar crumble topping that bakes into chewy, buttery goodness.

Love butterscotch, love pecans, and love the combination of these two together. That's why these squares have been my go-to treats. How can anyone say no to these delicious squares?! I do sometimes use half chocolate chips.

This deluxe cheesecake is so rich and creamy, no need to much, just one slice is enough to satisfy your sweet tooth!

Almond pound cake baked from a cold-oven start, with butter, shortening, and evaporated milk for a tight, tender crumb. Almond extract perfumes every slice. The cold-start trick gives a crackless top and even rise.

Classic buttermilk spice cake with cinnamon, cloves, and a pinch of black pepper. A vintage McCall's recipe with brown and white sugar for deep, warm flavor.

Emily Dickinson's black cake, a dense Victorian fruitcake with brandy, molasses, raisins, currants, and citron spiced with cloves, mace, and cinnamon. Baked low and slow.

Diabetic-friendly yellow cake made with sugar substitute, egg whites, and a fluffy seven-minute frosting. A lower-sugar birthday cake with tender crumb and pillowy frosted top.

Old-fashioned sour milk jumbles cut with a doughnut cutter and sprinkled with sugar straight from the oven. Buttermilk and nutmeg give these ring-shaped cookies a tender crumb and warm spice.

Light and fluffy Christmas snowball cookies. Lighter and lower fat than most Christmas cookies and faster to make (no need to refrigerate overnight).

Classic peanut butter blossom cookies with a chocolate kiss pressed into the center of each warm cookie. The holiday cookie tray essential.

Delicious! I find that it's easier to form the cookies if you make the filling first, refrigerate it, roll it into the 1" balls, then refrigerate again. I flatten the chocolate cookie part into disks and envelope the filling balls inside, rolling again. Very easy to make.

A delicious recipe to bake apples into a juicy dessert. Have one or two scoop after your main course to finish the meal without worrying about too many calories.

A towering four-layer strawberry cake made easy with a box mix, fresh berry glaze between each layer, and tangy cream cheese icing all over. Semi-homemade and stunning.

Cranberry nut bundt cake studded with whole tart cranberries, dates, and nuts, then drenched in a hot orange glaze that soaks deep into the warm cake. The Thanksgiving and Christmas dessert that gets better the longer it sits.

A chocolaty, moist and delicious cake that's easy to make and everyone loves.

Individual fruitcake cupcakes studded with dates, golden raisins, pecans, and citrus zest, soaked in brandy and topped with a pineapple chunk. Just 2 tablespoons of brown sugar in the whole batch. Diabetic-friendly holiday baking at its finest.