Dessert Recipes

My mother and I made these cookies when I was little, many years ago, using the box of dry mincemeat. I have looked for years for the recipe, they are the best cookies ever!!!

Milk goes bad, don't just throw it away, make this moist and delicious sour milk cake. Serve it with ice cream or any fruit sauce.

Rich devil's food cake made with sour milk and brown sugar, layered with chocolate fudge frosting studded with raisins. Moist, deep chocolate flavor from an old-school recipe.

Just like little fruitcakes! I soaked my fruit in the bourbon overnight. Easy recipe to put together and great way to use extra fruit from making my fruitcakes.

Reminisce Magazine's contest winning recipe. By: Oma Rollison (my mother) "'This absolutely scrumptious cake needs no icing...just a dusting of confectioners' sugar. Even though this recipe has been a 'family secret' for years, I'm delighted to share it with my fellow Reminisce readers."

Learn how to make Salpores de Arroz, a delightful gluten-free Latin American dessert that is perfect for special occasions, such as the Fourth of July. These crispy and golden treats are made from a simple batter that once fried to perfection, they can be enjoyed as a dessert or a sweet snack, adding a touch of sweetness to your celebration.

These buttery and moist yankee doodle cupcakes are absolutely delicious. They are filled with vanilla creme that gives you some yummy surprise in every bite.

Classic Christmas cut-out sugar cookies with clean edges that hold their shape. A simple butter-and-shortening dough that rolls thin, bakes crisp, and takes royal icing like a dream.

A sugar-free white cake for diabetics, sweetened with sorbitol instead of sugar and lightened with whipped egg whites. A tender, fluffy, snowy white layer that's a versatile base for any frosting.

Wow! This was my first time making a cake from scratch, and boy and I glad I came across this recipe. Moist and rich I used cane sugar and added honey, and the resulting flavor was so unique and yummy! I paired it with chocolate-coconut frosting. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Lightning-fast sheet cake with boiled cocoa mixture poured over flour and sugar, baked thin at high heat, then drenched in warm chocolate-nut frosting straight from the oven.

Mincemeat oatmeal cookies with molasses, brown sugar, and rolled oats deliver a chewy, spice-laced bite. A vintage holiday cookie with rich fruit-and-spice flavor in every drop.

These cherry cream cheese bars were divine. The cream cheese added the rich creaminess; I made my own cherry pie filling, which was packed with cherry flavour and not super sweet, also did a few changes to make these bars healthier (see the linked recipe below) but still decadent.

Old-fashioned buttermilk pound cake with butter, shortening, and five eggs for a dense, velvety crumb. Baked in a tube pan with a tender tang from real buttermilk.

They are best chocolate chip cookies for sure. These cookies were so easy to make, and they turned out buttery and crunchy, the melting chocolate chips gave some extra bites and delicious flavor. Nobody will refuse to try these small sweet treats.

Jeanne's cake stacks a tender vanilla cake on a crisp shortbread base, all wrapped in silky old-fashioned ermine frosting, the cooked-flour kind that's fluffy and far less sweet than buttercream.