Dessert Recipes

Old-fashioned icebox cookies with cardamom, cinnamon, lemon juice, and chopped nuts. Slice-and-bake dough that refrigerates overnight or freezes for weeks. Paper-thin and crispy.

Old-fashioned double-crust lemon pie filled with thin lemon slices in a buttery sugar-egg filling, topped with a cinnamon-sugar crust. Tart, sweet, and meant to be served warm.

Morrison's mace cake: a classic hot-milk sponge cake fragrant with warm mace, finished with a crackly mace-sugar topping that bakes into the surface. Old-fashioned Southern coffee cake at its most aromatic.

Almond shortbread cookies with a melt-in-your-mouth crumb, thanks to cornstarch in the dough. Five ingredients, no chilling required, and three dozen cookies ready in 30 minutes.

Rolled molasses cookies spiced with cinnamon and ginger, cut into shapes and baked until firm. A classic roll-and-cut cookie with deep, dark molasses flavor and a crisp edge.

Cranberry pumpkin bread with chopped pecans, pumpkin pie spice, and a tangy orange-allspice glaze drizzled on top. A moist, festive quick bread perfect for fall baking and holiday gifting.

Lemon blossom cookies are buttery thumbprint cookies made with lemon juice and powdered sugar, rolled in chopped nuts, and filled with fruit preserves or pecans. A classic holiday cookie tray staple.

Amaretto cheesecake cookies with a brown sugar shortbread crust, cream cheese filling spiked with amaretto, and an almond crumble topping. Cut into squares.

Lily cookies: cream cheese pastry rounds folded around a jelly center and dusted with powdered sugar. Old-school holiday cookies shaped like opening lilies.

Chocolate shortbread cookies dipped in both white and dark chocolate ganache. Melted semi-sweet chocolate in the dough plus cocoa creates an intensely rich, buttery cookie with a stunning two-tone finish.

Kahlua pecan pie cookies with a buttery brown sugar cookie cup filled with a caramel pecan center spiked with coffee liqueur. A two-bite spin on pecan pie.

Brown sugar apple pie with a spiced crumb topping of cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace. Five cups of sliced apples heaped into a flaky shell and baked golden.

Fresh pineapple pie with dried apricots, macadamia nuts, and a splash of rum in a flaky double crust. A tropical twist on classic fruit pie with Hawaiian accents.

Peach upside-down cake with a spiced gingerbread batter over brown sugar-glazed peach halves and cherries. A warmly spiced twist on the classic upside-down cake.

Southern peach shortcake with sliced peaches, almond extract, and cinnamon baked under a light biscuit topping. Diabetic-friendly with fructose instead of sugar.

PB&O snackers: chewy peanut butter oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, warm cinnamon, and nutmeg. A hearty snack cookie that beats any coffee-shop version.