Dessert Recipes

Classic no-bake grasshopper pie with a chocolate cookie crust and a creamy mint chiffon filling spiked with creme de menthe and creme de cacao. A pale green retro icebox pie for holidays and dinner parties.

Do-ahead sticky buns made with biscuit mix and butterscotch pudding, assembled the night before and baked fresh in the morning. Gooey, caramel-topped, and easy.

Chocolate turtle cheesecake: vanilla wafer crust topped with melted caramel, toasted pecans, and chocolate cheesecake filling. A layered showstopper dessert for serious occasions.

No-bake peanut butter and chocolate cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling, and chocolate syrup drizzle. Freezer-friendly for up to 6 weeks.

Spiced gingerbread baked in mason jars with molasses, crystallized ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. A charming gift-worthy dessert served warm with lemon sauce.

Cappuccino cheesecake: a silky cream cheese filling spiked with espresso and cinnamon, set on a buttery toasted-nut crust. Espresso-bar flavor in classic New York cheesecake form.

Paradise pumpkin cheesecake layers a gingered graham crust, a vanilla cream cheese layer and a spiced pumpkin layer, all crowned with a brown-sugar walnut praline topping. A Thanksgiving cheesecake showpiece.

Harvest apple pie with a brown sugar-nut praline topping baked over the top crust. A double-crust apple pie with a caramelized, crunchy finish.

Indiana fresh rhubarb creme pie with scalded rhubarb in a custard of egg yolks, sugar, and flour, optionally topped with meringue. A heritage Midwestern spring pie.

Diabetic-friendly chocolate bars made with cocoa, sugar substitute, and a hint of cinnamon, topped with melted chocolate chips. Fudgy, rich, and lower in sugar than traditional brownies.

Marji's fudgies: dense fudgy chocolate drop cookies with cocoa, powdered milk, and a stiff dough that bakes into a brownie-cookie hybrid. Foil-pan baking trick included.

Cider apple cake: a sheet cake layered with thin-sliced apples and a cinnamon-pecan-sugar streusel, built on a batter moistened with dry apple cider. Autumn on a plate.

Orange-butterscotch cheesecake on an oat-and-brown-sugar crust, scented with orange zest and crowned with homemade butterscotch sauce. Bright citrus and deep caramel in one dramatic dessert.

Midwest apple crunch pie tops sliced apples with a maple-scented sweetened condensed milk custard, then finishes with a brown sugar and granola streusel for the crunch on top. A Sunday-supper pie with a hearty crunch.

Light apple raisin crepes with an oat bran batter, part-skim ricotta and apple filling, and a warm cinnamon syrup poured over at serving. Just 178 calories per serving.

Caramel-pecan cake made with buttermilk chocolate batter, folded egg whites for lift, and a gooey caramel-chocolate chip topping baked right on top.