Dessert Recipes

This buttery and moist Irish style coffee cake is so easy to make, and it always impresses everyone!

Southern fig preserve cake baked in a tube pan with warm spices, buttermilk, chopped pecans, and a generous swirl of fig jam, finished with a buttermilk glaze.

Old-fashioned filled sugar cookies with a cooked raisin and nut filling sandwiched between two thin, almond-scented sugar cookie rounds. A classic heirloom cookie recipe.

French gaufrette wafer cookies with whipped cream, vanilla, and powdered sugar, baked on a pizzelle iron. Crispy, delicate French wafers for ice cream cones or tea.

Friendship starter applesauce cake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. A sourdough-style cake with deep apple flavor and optional nuts or raisins.

German marble kuchen swirls vanilla butter cake with chocolate syrup batter for a tender bundt with bold dark and light bands. A traditional German tea cake baked in a tube pan.

Grandma's plum pudding: a traditional steamed Christmas pudding with raisins, currants, citrus peel, suet, and warm spices. Three hours of slow steaming for a dense, fragrant holiday dessert.

Gingerbread Skeleton cookies that kids can make with you together, it is full of fun to make, and it is worth the efforts!

Fluffy, moist and delicious sponge cake is good at any time, it can be a simple dessert served with some cream, or can be a snack with a cup of your favorite coffee or tea!

Jefferson pie with brown sugar custard, dates, raisins, pecans, and warm spices in a flaky crust topped with meringue. A forgotten Southern heirloom dessert.

Twice-baked Italian almond cookies studded with bright maraschino cherries, spiked with kirsch and Grand Marnier. Perfect holiday gift.

Simple cookie bars with a cake-like base topped with fruit pie filling and powdered sugar. A vintage sheet pan dessert that feeds a crowd with minimal effort using canned filling.

Kaesekuchen, traditional German cheesecake: a light cottage cheese and sour cream filling with lemon, vanilla, and raisins, baked on a buttery shortcrust base and topped with almonds. Lighter than the American style.

These low-fat and delicious snacks are perfect for the kids lunches!

Mississippi Pecan Mud Cake with Chocolate Frosting recipe

Moist pumpkin cake layered with spiced whipped cream. Brown sugar, cinnamon, sour milk, and pumpkin puree make a tender, old-fashioned two-layer cake for autumn dessert tables.