Dessert, Baked Good Recipes

Microwave amaretto cheesecake with almond crust and fresh raspberry sauce. Quick, creamy dessert without heating up the oven.

Blueberry meringue pie with a thick blueberry-lemon filling of both crushed and whole berries, topped with golden meringue. The classic late-summer fruit pie that uses every blueberry texture.

Two-layer oat crumble cake with a pressed crust bottom, apple filling cooked with cornstarch until glossy, and buttery crumb topping. Bake for an hour and serve with vanilla ice cream.

Sweet dessert quiche filled with sliced apples and raisins in a creamy cinnamon custard. The fruit base gets topped with rich cream and eggs that bake into silky smoothness. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Apples and cottage cheese baked in a round cake pie make an easy to make delicious low fat apple and cheese Danish.

Tender sour cream pastry rolled with apricot jam, walnuts, and raisins into elegant strudel cookies. These make-ahead sweets are perfect for holiday cookie trays.

Chocolate cherry cookies with a maraschino cherry tucked into each thumbprint and a glossy chocolate-condensed milk frosting spooned over the top before baking.

Soft, cake-like banana cookies with buttermilk and chopped nuts, topped with a thin vanilla confectioners' sugar icing. Chill the dough for puffier cookies. A vintage recipe with 18 reviews.

Old-fashioned Southern sour cream cookies with chopped walnuts and a cinnamon-sugar crunch. Soft, cakey, and perfect for cookie swaps, these drop cookies freeze beautifully and make 3 dozen in just 30 minutes.

Bakery-sized oatmeal cookies loaded with chopped dates, walnuts, coconut, and sesame seeds, spiced with cinnamon, allspice, and almond extract. Crisp edges, chewy centers.

A boozy chocolate chip cake spiked with vodka, Kahlua, and instant coffee, then drenched in a buttery vodka-Kahlua glaze. Starts with a box mix but finishes like a showstopper.

Pillowy soft buttermilk drop cookies baked until pale golden get frosted with sweet buttercream and sprinkled with colored sugar for nostalgic treats.

Dense chocolate fudge cake with oats, Kahlua, and chocolate syrup, topped with a broiled brown sugar and nut crunch. One pan, under an hour, and dangerously rich.

Southern Carolina apple cake packed with 3 cups of diced apples and chopped nuts, finished with a warm brown sugar butter sauce poured right over the top. Dense, moist, and deeply comforting.

Old-fashioned cottage cheese custard pie with a cloud-light texture from folded egg whites. Sieved cottage cheese, vanilla, and milk bake into a silky, sweet filling.

No-bake cheesecake with cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon juice in a graham cracker crust. Just chill and top with cherry or blueberry pie filling.