Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Lemonade cake roll made with frozen lemonade concentrate in both the sponge and the vanilla whip filling. A tangy, citrus-packed rolled dessert with a powdered sugar finish.

Brown sugar chocolate chip cookies made with butter-flavored shortening for extra chewy centers and crisp edges. Choose your bake time for chewy or crunchy results. Makes 3 dozen with optional pecans.

James Beard's hands-on masterclass in a three-layer cake: beating butter by hand, folding egg whites like a soufflé, and mastering classic technique for a fluffy golden crumb with citrus filling.

The Pennsylvania Dutch settlers made these at Thanksgiving and stored them in a stoneware crock until Christmas. The cookies can be made at any time, but allowed to age for 4-6 weeks.

Famous Amos copycat chocolate chip coconut cookies with flaked coconut, chopped pecans, and semi-sweet chips in a buttery brown-sugar dough. Bigger and chewier than the bag version.

Lindy's famous cheesecake from the legendary New York deli features a buttery cookie crust, dense citrus-perfumed filling, and a glossy strawberry topping. The benchmark for classic NYC cheesecake.

No-bake pumpkin crunch cream pie with vanilla pudding folded into pumpkin, slivered almonds, and chocolate chips, all in a graham cracker crust. Easy holiday dessert with chocolate-pumpkin twist.

Pumpkin chiffon praline pie with a buttery brown sugar pecan praline baked into the crust, plus a light gelatin-set pumpkin chiffon filling lifted with whipped meringue.

Maple chiffon pie sets a light, mousse-like maple custard into a baked pie shell using gelatin, beaten egg whites, and whipped cream. The flavor is pure Vermont sugar shack in cloud form.

Bette's coconut cake is a buttermilk tube cake soaked in hot coconut syrup for a moist, sticky-sweet finish. Loaded with flaked coconut and chopped nuts in every slice.

Use some whole wheat flour to replace all-purpose flour; use canola oil and applesauce to replace some of butter. Give these date pinwheel cookies a healthy twist. They not only deliver all the yumminess, but also lots of goodness.

Godiva ultimate chocolate layer cake: three buttermilk cocoa layers brushed with Godiva chocolate liqueur and stacked with a cocoa-liqueur buttercream. Boozy, deep, unapologetically chocolate.

Cherry fruit chews are a vintage Bisquick bar studded with maraschino cherries, dates, and walnuts. Seven ingredients, one bowl, baked in a 9x13 pan. Yields four dozen retro holiday bites.

Apple pierogi filling: grated fresh apples with cinnamon and sugar. Traditional Polish dessert pierogi served with sour cream, buttered crumbs, and a final cinnamon dust.

Homemade fig newton bars with fresh fig filling inside a cinnamon-laced brown sugar dough, folded like a letter and baked golden. Better than store-bought.

Moist spice cake loaded with four cups of chopped apples, raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg, baked in a sugar-dusted pan until the fruit turns tender and sweet.