Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Fudgy brownie flavor meets chewy cookie texture in these chocolate-studded treats loaded with toasted pecans. The secret? Cocoa powder and chocolate chips team up for double-chocolate intensity.

Chocolate, cream cheese, coconut, sour cream and brandy make this delicious cheesecake.

No-bake chocolate drops with cocoa, coconut, and rolled oats set in the fridge. Five ingredients and no oven needed for these fudgy, chewy candy cookies.

A showpiece Christmas coconut layer cake with tutti-frutti filling loaded with pecans, candied cherries, golden raisins, and coconut, then frosted with almond whipped cream. Holiday baking at its finest.

Buttery drop cookies loaded with oats, vanilla milk chips, flaked coconut, and macadamia nuts. Sour cream keeps them soft and chewy. Makes 5 dozen for the holiday cookie swap.

A thin, fudgy chocolate sheet cake baked right on a cookie sheet and iced while still hot. Feeds a crowd in 30 minutes flat. The ultimate potluck and church supper cake.

Wacky cake (Depression-era chocolate cake) made with no eggs, no milk, no butter. Vinegar and baking soda lift it to fluffy chocolate perfection in one pan.

A one-bowl bundt cake that mixes cocoa, applesauce, cinnamon, and cloves into a moist, spiced chocolate cake. Ten ingredients, no fuss, done in under an hour.

Fabulous Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting recipe

Homemade fig newtons: a tender brown sugar and sour cream cookie dough wrapped around real homemade fig jam, baked in logs and sliced into soft bars. So much better than the boxed kind.

Creamy, moist and buttery, this greek style lemon cake is so tasty, the citrus flavor makes the cake so refreshing.

Hoernchen are German almond crescent cookies made with ground almonds, butter, and vanilla, dipped in colored sugar or sprinkles for a festive holiday cookie.

A decadent cake that is buttery, moist, rich and delicious.

Knäckebröd, the traditional Swedish rye crispbread baked thin and crackling. Just six pantry staples turn into snappy crackers, perfect with butter, cheese, smoked salmon, or pickled herring.

Greek butter cookies (kourabiedes) with ground cloves and a thick powdered sugar coating. Tender, crumbly, and lightly spiced for the holidays.

Krumkake are crisp Norwegian waffle cookies pressed in a decorative iron and shaped while warm into cones or cookie bowls. Six ingredients for an elegant Scandinavian dessert vessel.