Dessert Recipes

First-rate carrot cake folds shredded carrots, crushed pineapple, coconut, and walnuts into a moist buttermilk batter. Topped with orange-spiked cream cheese frosting for the ultimate spring dessert.

Barbara Bush's signature chocolate chip cookies with a quirky splash of hot water in the dough that yields a crisp-edged, soft-centered cookie. A small-batch White House classic.

Chocolate marshmallow stuffed cookies with cocoa-laced dough wrapped around mini marshmallows that melt into gooey clouds inside. A surprise-center treat that kids and adults adore.

Grapefruit chiffon cake made with fresh juice and grated peel, six eggs whipped to stiff peaks, baked in a tube pan and drizzled with a citrus glaze. Light, tall, and bright.

No-fat cheesecake with nonfat cream cheese set with gelatin, topped with a warm berry compote with cinnamon. A crustless, guilt-free dessert that sets in the fridge in 2 hours.

Sugar and spice molasses cookies for Christmas. Soft, chewy, rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. Cinnamon, cloves, and ginger for warm holiday flavor.

Z Tejas' chile fudge pie copycat: a gooey chocolate-and-nut pie spiked with smoky ancho chile puree for a subtle warmth behind the sweetness. Loaded with toasted pecans, walnuts, and melty chocolate chips.

Grand Marnier orange liqueur cake with sour cream, chopped nuts, and slivered almonds. A rich, tender tube cake soaked in a boozy orange syrup for a sophisticated celebration dessert.

Lazy Daisy oatmeal cake with rolled oats soaked in boiling water for a moist crumb, topped with a broiled brown sugar, coconut, and nut frosting that bubbles up caramel-golden. A beloved American classic.

Jam kolaches fold a cream cheese pastry dough around a dot of strawberry jam, then bake into tender pillows dusted with powdered sugar. The Czech-American Christmas cookie with a four-ingredient base.

Ladies will enjoy this decadent chocolate cake made with cream cheese and chopped pecans.

Soft-baked bars with apples, cranberries, and nuts baked into orange-scented batter, then frosted with tangy orange cream cheese icing. Perfect for holiday cookie trays.

Warm fruit crisp loaded with sliced apples and plump raisins under a crunchy oat-pecan streusel. Soaking the raisins in boiling water keeps them tender. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Applesauce, quick oats and raisins flavored with warm cinnamon and cloves.

Moist, chocolaty and creamy cake is always a popular dessert at any occasion.

Three-layer butternut cake with tangy cream cheese frosting and chopped nuts. Rich buttermilk batter laced with butternut flavoring bakes up tender and moist, then gets slathered in a thick, nutty frosting that'll have folks lining up for seconds.