Dessert Recipes

Traditional New Year's portzelky cookies are pillowy fried dough studded with plump raisins, dusted with icing sugar for celebration breakfasts.

No-bake vinegar pie, the simplest pioneer pantry pie with a sweet-tart filling of cider vinegar and lemon extract. No eggs, no oven, just five ingredients and a pre-baked crust.

Everyone loves the crunchy oat topping and sweet pear filling in this fruity crisp. This crisp is delicious, served warm.

A simple cake adorned with a rich caramel frosting and sprinkled with crunchy chopped pecans is a comforting dessert that combines the satisfying sweetness of caramel with the delightful texture of pecans. This inviting treat is perfect for sharing with friends and family, or simply indulging in a moment of pure confectionary bliss.

A good friend of mine introduced this recipe to me, I made this cookies following the ingredients, really nice, different from the cookies I made before, very worthful to try!

Soft sour cream drop cookies with apricot preserves baked right into the dough. Brush with warm apricot glaze for a fruity shine. Makes 5 dozen in about 30 minutes.

Sourdough chocolate cookies, a discard recipe with rolled oats, unsweetened chocolate, and a splash of rum. Rolled and cut with cookie cutters for shaped cookies that taste like a tangier brownie.

These pretty little peppermint-flavored cookies are a tasty, colorful addition to any holiday cookie box.

This buttery and moist Texas sheet cake is a all time winner. Everyone loves it.

Chocolate chip cookie bars with a show-stopping marble swirl on top. Brown sugar, vanilla, and chopped nuts in a chewy base with melted chocolate dragged through for a bakery-worthy finish. Pan to plate in 30 minutes.

Mix this vanilla crazy cake right in the baking pan with no butter, no mixer, and minimal cleanup. Pecans add crunch and swirled chocolate chips on top finish it off.

Light, airy Vermont maple chiffon cake with walnuts, drizzled in reduced maple syrup glaze. Baked in an angel food pan and cooled upside down for a tall, tender crumb.

Sweet pie dough (pate sucree) made in a food processor with butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. The buttery, slightly sweet pastry that elevates fruit pies and tarts.

James Beard's brownies sweetened with maple syrup instead of granulated sugar. Just seven ingredients, one bowl, ready in 40 minutes. No butter or oil added.

Chocolate chip muffins with a tender buttery crumb from buttermilk and sour cream. Makes two dozen bakery-style muffins with semisweet chips folded throughout. Lunchbox staple.

Coffee bean brownies: thin sheet-pan brownies with Kahlua and strong brewed coffee in the batter, topped with warm fudgy cocoa frosting poured onto the hot tray. Makes 36.