Dessert Recipes

Peaches and cream cheesecake bars: a vanilla pudding-spiked cake base topped with sliced peaches and a dollop-and-swirl cream cheese layer, dusted with cinnamon sugar. Sheet pan dessert that feeds 16.

Old-fashioned 1850 blackberry pie with five ingredients. Berries baked into a single crust under a flour, sugar, and milk custard for a rustic 19th-century farmhouse pie that sets into a soft, jammy slice.

Red velvet pound cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with cocoa, shortening, and seven eggs for a dense, velvety crumb. Topped with cream cheese icing.

Apple raisin walnut cookies are soft, cake-like drop cookies spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Old-fashioned fall flavor with chunks of fresh apple in every bite.

Sawdust salad layered jello dessert with lemon-orange gelatin, pineapple custard, and cream cheese whipped topping. Vintage church potluck dish that’s sweet, light, and ready in stages.

No-bake peanut butter Nanaimo bars with a chocolate coconut crumb base, creamy peanut butter custard filling, and glossy semisweet chocolate topping. A Canadian classic with a twist.

Traditional baked Christmas pudding with candied fruits, pecans, molasses, and warm spices, served with brandy sauce. A festive holiday dessert with an optional flambé presentation.

Crunchy chocolate chip cookies loaded with pecans and crisp rice cereal, flavored with almond extract and brown sugar. Makes 5 dozen crispy-edged treats in 30 minutes.

Six thin cake layers stacked high with cream cheese frosting and blueberry pie filling between each one. A showpiece dessert that's much easier to make than it looks.

Buttery laminated dough enriched with cardamom and orange creates flaky Danish pastries through careful rolling and folding for serious bakers seeking a challenge.

Just like the name, this bread pudding is buttery, creamy and it looks beautiful as well. I adapted this recipe from Donna Hay magazine. If you love bread pudding, give it a try and you will love it.

These cute wicked cupcakes will definitely impress your kids and the friends, and they are delicious!

Humdingers are no-bake date balls cooked stovetop with eggs, butter, and sugar, then folded with crispy rice cereal and rolled in coconut. A vintage Southern Christmas treat.

Apple crunch coffee cake built on biscuit mix: layered batter, sliced apples and cinnamon streusel, finished with a vanilla glaze drizzle. From box to oven in 10 minutes flat.

Boston cream pie from scratch: tender vanilla butter cake split into four layers, filled with a homemade vanilla pastry custard, and crowned with a glossy milk chocolate glaze.

Roly-poly peach cobbler: juicy peaches under a biscuit topping rolled jelly-roll style with cinnamon sugar, then sliced into pinwheels. A Southern-style cobbler that looks as good as it tastes.