Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Fairy cookies made with both powdered and granulated sugar, margarine, and oil for a melt-in-your-mouth texture. A big batch sugar cookie recipe that bakes up light, tender, and crisp.

Alice's chocolate cake bakes a moist two-layer cocoa cake using boiling water for extra-deep chocolate flavor, then frosts with a from-scratch buttery cocoa-powdered sugar icing. The reliable birthday cake home bakers swear by.

Steel Trolley Diner's Fresh Apple Crumb Pie recipe

Fresh apple spiced cake with cinnamon, allspice, and chopped nuts baked in a loaf or tube pan. A moist, oil-based cake where sugar-macerated apples provide natural sweetness and moisture.

Chocolate chip and currant pound cake with Cognac-soaked currants, semi-sweet chocolate, and a hint of cinnamon, baked in a Bundt pan and drizzled with a Cognac glaze.

Deep-dish apple pie with a single top crust hiding a heap of brown sugar and cinnamon-spiced apples. Old-fashioned simplicity served with cream or hard sauce, just the way grandmother made it.

Classic lemon squares with a shortbread base and a tart-sweet lemon curd topping baked on a pre-baked crust. Powdered sugar dusted. Twelve squares per batch.

Miracle Whip spice cake folds the salad dressing into a molasses-and-spice batter for a moist, eggless cake with deep cinnamon, clove and nutmeg warmth.

This is an easy chocolate pie made with tofu. Very mousse-like!

Haupia pumpkin pie combines Hawaiian coconut pudding on top of a spiced pumpkin filling with shredded coconut and whipped cream. A tropical twist on classic pumpkin pie.

Buttery white chocolate chip cookies with a hint of orange zest. Soft, golden-edged drop cookies loaded with white chocolate morsels and a subtle citrus fragrance.

Chocolate zucchini tube cake using a cake mix hack with shredded zucchini folded in for extra moisture. Topped with cream cheese frosting and chopped nuts.

Cape Cod blueberry cake folds fresh blueberries and bran flakes cereal into a lightly spiced one-bowl batter. A New England farmhouse cake with a tender, fiber-rich crumb served warm with whipped topping.

Diabetic-friendly lemon cream pie with a blind-baked pastry crust, tart lemon custard set with gelatin, and a light whipped topping. Bright, creamy, and sugar-free.

A four-layer Snickers pie: graham cracker crust, fudgy chocolate brownie layer studded with Snickers chunks, creamy cheesecake, and drizzled milk chocolate ganache on top. Decadent dessert overload.

Lickety-Split Cocoa Cake: a one-bowl, eggless, dairy-free chocolate cake mixed with water, oil, and a splash of vinegar. The original Depression-era "crazy cake" that bakes up tender every time.