Dessert Recipes

Ann's banana chiffon cake layers ripe bananas and buttermilk into tender, golden rounds topped with billowy whipped cream. A Southern-style stunner for brunch or dessert.

Decadent layered brownies with raspberry cream cheese filling and white chocolate glaze. Elegant Chambord-spiked dessert that slices into beautiful wedges for special occasions.

Simple cocoa brownies mixed in one microwave-safe bowl, no melting chocolate required, with a tender crumb and deep chocolate flavor from Dutch-process cocoa.

Lighter cocoa brownies sweetened with liquid sweetener and applesauce instead of excess sugar, delivering chocolate satisfaction with a tender cake-like crumb.

New England apple pie with a butter pastry, crumb topping, and heritage apples like Northern Spy or Rhode Island Greening. Cinnamon and lemon zest brighten the filling, and a two-stage bake browns the crust without burning.

Butternut squash pie with a from-scratch shortening crust, spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and a touch of lemon extract. A sweeter, nuttier alternative to pumpkin pie.

Munich cheesecake with a shortcrust base, vanilla bean cream cheese filling, poppy seed-raisin layer, and brown sugar streusel topping broiled until crisp.

Vintage 1935 chocolate yeast bread with cocoa, pecans, and vanilla kneaded by hand and baked into a dark, fragrant loaf. A Depression-era recipe worth reviving.

Mixed berry cobbler with boysenberries, blueberries, and raspberries under a buttery cream biscuit topping. Baked until bubbling and golden, served warm with cream.

Honey beer cake baked in a tube pan with apple butter, orange juice, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. A dense, fragrant cake with five layers of sweetness and a beer-malt backbone.

7-layer brownie ice cream cake with thin homemade brownie rounds stacked with vanilla ice cream and frozen in a springform pan. A make-ahead frozen dessert that slices like a dream.

Caramel apple pie recipe loaded with chopped Jonathan or Rome apples, melted caramel candies, gooey caramel topping, and toasted pecans baked into a buttery crust.

Died and went to heaven chocolate cake is a deeply chocolate bundt that's secretly low-fat: buttermilk and hot coffee make it rich and moist with just a quarter cup of oil. Bittersweet, tender, and crowd-worthy.

Maple walnut poundcake with a cinnamon walnut streusel swirl and pancake syrup sweetening the batter. A dense, tender tube-pan cake that makes its own maple glaze as the streusel melts during baking.

Apple cobbler cake: a dense, oil-based bundt cake loaded with chopped apples and toasted pecans. Moist, fruit-heavy and fall-friendly. The kind of cake that lives on the kitchen counter.

Traditional English plum pudding, a steamed Christmas classic packed with raisins, currants, apples, walnuts, and beef suet. Spiced, dense, and deeply boozy-optional.