Dessert Recipes

Apfeltorte: German apple cake with whole peeled apples baked into a butter cake, their cores stuffed with rum-soaked raisins and chocolate. Finished with apricot glaze and powdered sugar.

The perfect spice cookie. Loaded with flavor with crispy edges and a very chewy center from the molasses and brown sugar.

Apple cheddar shortcake layers cinnamon-spiced apples between two sharp cheddar biscuit rounds, finished with whipped cream. A sweet-savory New England-style dessert that plays on the classic apple pie pairing.

Molasses cookies with a surprising hit of mint extract, warm cinnamon, ginger, and clove. Crackly sugar-rolled tops and chewy spiced centers.

Old-fashioned cold water cake with muscat raisins, warm spices, and no eggs or butter. A Depression-era boiled raisin cake that bakes up dense, spiced, and deeply satisfying.

Duchess spice cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves topped with maple buttercream frosting. A warmly spiced buttermilk layer cake with old-fashioned charm.

Freezer cinnamon fruit rolls with soft yeasted dough, a rich filling of brown sugar, golden raisins, dried apricots, pecans, and cinnamon, finished with a simple sugar glaze. Make ahead and freeze for up to 2 months.

Rich cappuccino pound cake with cocoa, honey, sour cream, and warm spices like cinnamon and cloves. Finished with a Kahlua coffee cream glaze that takes it over the top.

Oatmeal apple raisin muffins with cinnamon and nutmeg, ready in 30 minutes. Hearty, warmly spiced breakfast muffins that taste like fall in every bite.

A pumpkin pie with attitude: warm cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves meet a bold hit of cayenne pepper, sweetened with honey and thickened with ground pecans. Creamy, spicy, and completely unforgettable.

Apple dabble cake baked in a tube pan with chopped apples, cinnamon, and nuts, then drenched in a hot brown sugar-butter glaze that soaks in as it cools. A dense, moist apple cake.

Glazed apple gem cookies: small drop cookies with chopped apple, raisins, and nuts, dipped in apple juice glaze while warm. Soft, spiced, and packed with fall flavor.

Moist coffee orange fudge bundt cake doctored from a German chocolate cake mix with Kahlua, orange zest, sour cream, instant pudding, and chocolate chips. Bakery-quality from a box.

Baked fig and raisin pudding with crumbled waffle cookies, cocoa, walnuts, and warm spices, cooked in a water bath. A rich, old-fashioned holiday dessert served warm with hard sauce.

Fruit and tofu pie layers honey-sweetened peaches and coconut under a silky blended tofu-cream cheese custard, baked in a pastry shell. A lighter dessert with hidden protein.

Rhubarb-strawberry cobbler with cinnamon and orange zest in the filling and fluffy buttermilk biscuit topping. A classic spring dessert where tart rhubarb and sweet strawberries bubble under golden drop biscuits.