Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Terry's turtle cake layers chocolate cake with melted caramel, chocolate chips, and pecans, then tops with more batter for a gooey caramel center. A church potluck classic on a doctored cake mix base.

Delicious classic apple pie is baked with pecans, which gives the apple pie nutty flavor.

Harvest apple pie with a brown sugar-nut praline topping baked over the top crust. A double-crust apple pie with a caramelized, crunchy finish.

Famous Neiman Marcus chocolate chip cookies with blended oatmeal, grated chocolate bar, chocolate chips, and walnuts. A legendary big-batch recipe that delivers.

Chewy butterscotch cookies with dark brown sugar, chopped walnuts, and a melted caramel-cream drizzle. Each cookie crowned with a walnut half and baked low and slow.

Reva's molasses sugar cookies: chewy, crackle-topped molasses cookies rolled in sugar before baking. Spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. The old-fashioned holiday cookie your grandma kept in a tin.

Blueberry crunch cake bakes a buttermilk cornmeal cake under a crown of fresh blueberries with a cinnamon-sugar crackle on top. Lighter than coffee cake, sweeter than cornbread. The Southern morning cake that disappears fast.

Crunchy chocolate almond biscotti with cocoa powder, toasted whole almonds, and chocolate chips. Double-baked Italian cookies built for dunking in coffee or espresso.

Classic New York-style cheesecake with cream cheese, sour cream, and lemon juice on a graham cracker crust. Baked low and slow with a one-hour oven cool to prevent cracking.

A fresh blueberry pie with a stovetop filling where most of the berries stay whole and uncooked. Poured into a baked pie shell and chilled, it's fruity, bright, and barely sweet.

Sweet potato pie blends mashed sweet potatoes with butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, eggs, and evaporated milk into two pies. Southern Thanksgiving classic.

No-bake cappuccino cream pie with a toasted macadamia graham cracker crust, white chocolate espresso custard filling, and whipped cream topped with chocolate-covered espresso beans.

Almond Coconut Twinkles: simple buttery drop cookies flavored with almond and vanilla extract and studded with flaked coconut. A short list of pantry ingredients, makes 30 cookies.

Chocolate cream torte made from four cocoa cookie layers stacked with whipped chocolate cream filling. Chills overnight so the cookie layers soften into cake-like slices.

McHamburger cookies sandwich a chocolate cookie "patty" between two vanilla wafer "buns" with green-tinted coconut lettuce and yellow frosting cheese, then sprinkle sesame seeds on top. A novelty no-bake cookie kids can build themselves.

Hawaiian dump cake with cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, yellow cake mix, coconut, and macadamia nuts. No mixing required, just layer and bake.