Dessert Recipes

Super chunky cookies pack four kinds of chocolate plus pecans and English toffee bits into a brown sugar dough. Bakery-style chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges and chewy centers.

Traditional Scottish shortbread made with butter, flour, cornstarch, and sugar. A four-ingredient buttery cookie baked low and slow until just pale gold, then dusted with sugar while warm.

Pecan tossies with cream cheese pastry cups filled with a brown sugar, butter, and pecan filling. Miniature pecan pies baked in muffin tins for bite-sized holiday treats.

Pfeffernusse-style German pepper cookies with white pepper, cinnamon, mixed spice, candied peel, and lemon zest. Small, puffy spice balls dusted in powdered sugar.

Apple cookies with butterscotch chips, walnuts, and brown sugar topped with a cinnamon butter glaze and a walnut half. A soft, fruit-studded fall cookie.

Homemade banana layer cake with mashed ripe banana and buttermilk for a moist, tender crumb. A classic two-layer cake ready to frost with your favorite icing.

Half moon cookies with a soft, cake-like buttermilk crumb, frosted half white and half chocolate. The classic upstate New York holiday cookie, also known as a black-and-white.

Greek revani cake: a sweet semolina-and-orange syrup cake studded with almonds, soaked in lemon-scented sugar syrup. A classic Eastern Mediterranean dessert cut into diamonds and served with cream.

Chewy peanut butter cookies loaded with ground and whole sesame seeds, brown sugar, honey, and a warm ginger kick. Rolled in raw sesame seeds for a nutty, crackly coating.

One butter cookie dough, eight different cookies. Drop cookies, snowballs, butter fingers, cinnamon balls, chocolate mint creams, and more from a single batch.

Rhubarb oatmeal crunch with a buttery oat-cinnamon crumble crust and a vanilla-glazed rhubarb filling. A classic farmhouse dessert served warm with vanilla ice cream.

Flourless-style chocolate mini-cakes baked in a heart pan with semisweet morsels, butter, walnuts, and just two tablespoons of flour. Finished with ganache.

Fallen chocolate souffle cake: a dense, fudgy flourless-style cake of bittersweet chocolate, almond, and egg whites that puffs then collapses into a crackled top. An elegant, almost gluten-free dessert.

Authentic Pennsylvania Dutch shoo fly pie with a deep molasses filling and spiced brown sugar crumb topping with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. A true wet-bottom pie from the Amish tradition.

Loaded oatmeal cookies packed with bittersweet chocolate chunks, raisins, and pecans. Chewy centers with crisp golden edges from a brown sugar butter dough.

Easy one-bowl bundt pound cake: butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla beaten together for 10 minutes into a tender, golden, sliceable cake. Six eggs, no creaming step required. Truly fool-proof.