Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Blueberry cookies with fresh blueberries, brown sugar, cinnamon, and lemon zest, topped with a citrus powdered sugar frosting. Soft, cakey drop cookies.

Classic vinegar pie with a smooth egg-rich custard filling, Depression-era pantry baking that mimics lemon pie using kitchen vinegar. Six ingredients, sweet-tart, satisfying.

Oatmeal brickle cookies with almond toffee chips and a white chocolate drizzle. Chewy oat cookies with buttery crunch, shaped into small balls for crisp edges.

White chocolate cashew pie, a sophisticated cousin to pecan pie with chunks of cashew, melty white chocolate, and a splash of kirsch cherry brandy. Brown-sugar custard, made-from-scratch crust.

Silken tofu replaces eggs and dairy in a tender, biscuit-style shortcake that's completely vegan yet still delivers the classic strawberry shortcake experience.

Lucy's apple pie in a jar packs cinnamon-spiced apple slices and thickened syrup into Mason jars, water-bath processed for shelf-stable filling. Pour into a crust whenever pie cravings strike.

Chocolate Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting recipe

Turtle pie deluxe, a no-bake frozen ice cream pie with chocolate cookie crust, fudge layer, pecan-praline ice cream, butterscotch sauce, and toasted pecans. A make-ahead dessert showpiece.

Mom's yellow cake with butterscotch frosting is a three-layer buttermilk cake with folded egg whites for lightness, topped with a boiled brown sugar and butter frosting. A true from-scratch heirloom recipe.

Waldorf red velvet cake with buttermilk, cocoa, and a cooked flour frosting that tastes like whipped cream. The original Waldorf-Astoria recipe from scratch.

Rich flourless chocolate mousse cake spiked with Cointreau or Chambord, baked in a water bath and topped with billowy whipped cream. An Italian-style showstopper dessert.

Nutty choco-pumpkin ice cream pie layers vanilla ice cream studded with toffee candy bars under a spiced pumpkin ice cream layer in a chocolate cookie crust. No-bake fall freezer pie that lives in the freezer until needed.

Dense, moist apple cake packed with dates, walnuts, and golden raisins. Oil-based batter loaded with fruit and spice bakes into a pudding-like texture in a 13x9 pan.

Peach pizza pie: a 12-inch shortbread crust topped with fresh peaches and a currant-jelly orange glaze, finished with whipped cream. A summer dessert dressed up like a fruit tart.

Maple syrup spice cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves baked with buttermilk and plump raisins. A warmly spiced one-pan cake sweetened entirely with real maple syrup.

Pumpkin cookies sweeten with honey instead of refined sugar, fold in raisins, dates, and chopped nuts, and spice with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Soft, cake-like, and made with whole wheat pastry flour. Healthy enough for breakfast.