Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Biscotti ai pignoli are Italian pine nut cookies made with a warmed sugar-egg foam, lemon zest, and cake flour. Crisp, golden Sicilian-style sweets topped with pine nuts. Makes 36 cookies.

Hazelnut chocolate toffee layers crunchy buttery brown-sugar candy with toasted hazelnuts and a melted-on chocolate chip topping. Holiday gift candy that breaks into rough shards.

Kiss cookies tuck a whole chocolate kiss inside a buttery walnut shortbread, baked until just set and rolled in powdered sugar. Crack one open and the melty chocolate middle is the payoff. An easy holiday cookie that keeps for days.

Loaded with 4 cups of blueberries and kissed with almond extract, this sheet pan cake bakes up golden with a juicy berry filling and sweet lemon glaze drizzle.

Strawberry angel food cake made from a box mix with strawberry soda and honey replacing the water, topped with a pink powdered sugar glaze. A semi-homemade cake with fruity flavor.

Maple syrup is the only sweetener in these soft, chewy oatmeal cookies with rolled oats, raisins, and chopped walnuts or pecans. Old-fashioned and refined-sugar-free.

Additive Devil's Food Cake with Caramel Filling recipe

Twice-baked Jewish biscotti loaded with crunchy almonds, mixed dried fruit, and a cinnamon-sugar crust. Crisp edges meet tender centers in this traditional cookie perfect for dunking in coffee or tea.

Spiced refrigerator cookies with sour cream, sliced almonds, cloves, and nutmeg. Make-ahead dough keeps for 2 weeks refrigerated or freezes for months.

Half-whole-wheat apple nut cookies with diced fresh apples, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. Cake-like, soft-textured drop cookies that taste like apple pie filling baked into a cookie. Makes 48.

Always Popular lemon meringue pie tempers the egg yolks before cooking, then finishes with boiling water for a fast, fail-proof curd. Topped with classic French meringue in a baked pastry shell.

Amaretto cheesecake delite blends silken tofu and reduced-fat cream cheese into a lighter cheesecake spiked with amaretto and vanilla. Topped with caramelized almonds on a chocolate cookie crust.

Amazing lemon meringue pie uses both cornstarch and flour for a curd that holds clean wedges. Lemon juice goes into the meringue too for a stable foam that resists weeping.

Thick, chewy oatmeal cookies studded with plump raisins and warmly spiced with cinnamon—yields 6 dozen bakery-style treats.

Peppermint meringue kisses with crushed red and green candy canes sprinkled over delicate egg-white peaks. The light-as-air holiday cookie that's naturally gluten-free and fat-free.

Sour cream raisin pie folds plump cooked raisins into a tangy sour cream custard, finished with a cloud of toasted meringue. An old-school Midwest classic that turns a simple pantry into a showstopper.