Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

This is a very pretty cake with the thin sliced almonds and the sugar not dissolved on top.

Buttery Swedish Melting Moments cookies with almond and orange extract literally dissolve on your tongue. Six ingredients, one hour chill, and you've got 2 dozen tender, crumbly Scandinavian treats.

Fresh strawberry muffins with sliced berries, buttermilk, and cinnamon, lightened with egg whites and substitute. A summer brunch muffin with sugar-crusted tops, makes 18.

Glazed plum bundt cake with chopped fresh plums, walnuts, cinnamon, and a warm brown sugar glaze. A late-summer fruit cake with juicy plum pockets and a tender, oil-based crumb.

Coconut cream pie with a silky vanilla custard packed with flaked coconut, finished with fresh whipped cream and toasted coconut on top. The Southern diner classic, made from scratch.

Miniature pecan pies bake up in 17 minutes for a one-bite holiday treat. Dark corn syrup filling, chopped pecans, and an egg-white-sealed tart shell keep the bottoms crisp. Sixteen tarts per batch.

Eugenie's baklava layers crisp, buttery phyllo with a spiced walnut filling and soaks it in a honey-lemon syrup, complete with a cook's secret for shatteringly crisp, never-soggy layers. A Mediterranean classic.

Lemon poppy seed bundt cake uses a doctored lemon cake mix with instant pudding for a moist crumb, finished with a glossy lemon glaze. The bakery-style shortcut every home baker should know.

Silky pumpkin pie with a delicate cinnamon-vanilla custard set in a flaky crust. Lighter than most thanks to fresh milk instead of evaporated, perfect for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

White chocolate cheesecake folds melted white chocolate into a cream cheese filling laced with apricot brandy, set on a buttery pound cake crust. A sophisticated upgrade on the classic.

Six-ingredient pumpkin bundt cake from yellow cake mix, eggs, oil, pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and nuts. The shortcut autumn bake for potlucks and last-minute hospitality.

I tried this pumpkin pie last week, it turned out delicious. At Thanksgiving I will make this pumpkin pie for my family, I bet they will love it.

This beautiful and romantic cake is perfect for Valentine's Day! The recipe is also easy to turn into a cake for any occasion, Flag Day, birthdays you name it. Decorate it accordingly.

Love anything with peanut butter! These pretty looking peanut butter blossoms were also delicious, they were just melting in my mouth.

Bailey's marbled cheesecake on a chocolate graham crust with Irish cream in the batter and a swirled chocolate ribbon. Boozy, silky, and dressed up for the holidays.

Chocolate almond zucchini bread: a moist, deeply chocolate quick bread that hides grated zucchini for tenderness and toasted almonds for crunch. Two loaves from one batch.