Dessert Recipes

What can I say but delicious. Made this Jewish cookie the first time in my life, and I was impressed! Definitely a sweet cake. If you have a sweet tooth like I do, you will love it.

Low fat lemon pudding cake separates as it bakes into a tender sponge top and silky lemon-curd bottom. Light dessert with skim milk and only one tablespoon of fat.

Deep chocolate cookies spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, made lighter with yogurt instead of butter. Crisp edges with chewy centers at just 41 calories per cookie.

Spiced cherry biscotti studded with candied cherries and almonds, warmed with nutmeg, and dusted with cinnamon-nutmeg sugar. A ruby-flecked holiday coffee cookie.

Spiced pizzelles flavor the classic Italian wafer cookie with warm nutmeg and floral cardamom. Crisp, lacy, and lightly spiced, perfect for stacking on a holiday cookie tray or sandwiching with mascarpone.

Salty-sweet strawberry pretzel salad with a buttery pretzel crust, tangy cream cheese filling, and a jewel-toned strawberry jello topping. The ultimate potluck crowd-pleaser.

Triple-chocolate cheesecake with a crushed cookie crust, rich semi-sweet filling, and a silky chocolate-orange liqueur frosting. Baked low and slow for a dense, fudgy center that'll ruin you for ordinary desserts.

Thin, crisp Swedish cookies brushed with egg white, dusted with cinnamon-clove sugar, and topped with a whole almond pressed into each one. Lemon zest brightens the buttery dough. Ready in 25 minutes, makes 2 dozen.

A Southern-style pound cake with butter, five eggs, and a hint of almond extract, baked low and slow then soaked with a warm lemon glaze. Dense, buttery, and utterly addictive.

Carrot cake with crushed pineapple, raisins, cinnamon, and ginger. Moist, tender crumb perfect with cream cheese frosting. Makes a sheet cake or 4 mini loaves.

Brown sugar chocolate chip cookies with extra brown sugar, a splash of corn syrup, and three full cups of semisweet chips. Soft, chewy centers, golden edges, and a deep butterscotch backbone.

Deluxe brownies bake up fudgy and rich with a glossy, crackly top, thanks to a long beat of eggs and sugar. Made with real melted unsweetened chocolate, they're a simple six-ingredient batch worth the bowl.

Old-fashioned sugar cookies with a dual-sugar dough of granulated and powdered sugar, flattened with a sugar-dipped glass. Tender, crackly-topped, and buttery.

Crunchy pecan biscotti with almond extract and vanilla, twice-baked until golden. Perfect for dunking in coffee and they store for up to 2 weeks.

Flourless Passover chocolate almond torte with bittersweet chocolate, ground almonds, and a rich chocolate-butter icing. Kosher for Pesach with no wheat flour.

Peanut butter filled fudge cupcakes hide a cream cheese and peanut butter core inside rich cocoa cupcakes. Bake reveals a fudgy exterior with a soft, cheesecake-like peanut butter center.