Dessert Recipes

Cottage cheese and sour cream make this light and healthy version of strawberry cheesecake.

Creamy, smooth and absolutely delicious. It's a pure indulgence to enjoy a slice of Brooklyn cheesecake.

Melt in your mouth Russian tea cookies with walnuts. Perfect accompaniment for a cup of tea.

This delicious chocolate bundt cake contains ground flax seeds, chopped walnuts, buttermilk and bittersweet chocolate, not only tasty but also full of goodness.

This is a traditional English sweet. Moist, rich cake with dates, covered in a caramel/toffee sauce. Best served warm.

These cookies are buttery and delicious. By dipping them into melted chocolate gives them another chocolaty layer that make these cookies taste even better. Great treats at your Christmas party.

Applesauce cheesecake: smooth cream cheese cheesecake with applesauce and warm spices on graham-pecan crust, finished with warm pecan caramel sauce.

Fresh tomato cake with dark brown sugar, dates, raisins, nuts, and nutmeg topped with cream cheese frosting. A Southern heritage cake that uses ripe tomatoes for incredible moisture.

Soft French buttercream cookies made with powdered sugar, cream of tartar, and vanilla. Tint the dough with food coloring and top with colored sugar for holidays or parties.

German plum cake (Zwetschgenkuchen) layers fresh plum wedges over a yeast-and-baking-powder dough, finished with cardamom sugar. A late-summer Bavarian classic for coffee hour.

Made this apple cake a while ago, and finally got the photos uploaded. The cake was moist and delicious. I used half whole wheat flour and half all-purpose flour to make it a bit healthier, reduced sugar to 1 1/2 cups, which was sweet enough for us. Also added 1/2 cup chopped pecans to the apples, and it was a great addition.

Old-fashioned crumb cake made with sour milk, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The same flour-butter mixture forms both the spiced cake batter and the crumbly streusel topping. One bowl, one pan.

Thick, peppery cream gravy made from a butter or bacon fat roux, milk, and freshly cracked black pepper. Ready in 20 minutes and just right for smothering biscuits, fried chicken, or country-fried steak.

They are delicious and pretty. Make these chocolate crinkle cookies as Christmas gift, you will get rave reviews back.

You may also try and roll with a rolling pin but may not work since these will be soft after they are baked.

Classic Viennese Christmas cookie. Soft and buttery with a dusting of snowy sugar.