Dessert Recipes

Cappuccino muffins with cocoa, espresso crystals, bittersweet chocolate, and orange zest. Sour cream and half-and-half keep the crumb tender while coffee deepens the chocolate flavor.

Surprise your relatives at your next family gathering with this rich and delicious cake that will have everyone wanting a second slice!

Avocado in the brownies? It may sound strange, but it tastes very pleasant. Avocado adds delicious creaminess and richness to these moist and chocolaty brownies.

This simply delicious apple cake is made with 100% whole wheat flour, apple sauce and olive oil. It has much less sugar than a regular cake, but still well satisfies your sweet tooth. The caramel drizzling and toasted walnuts add more shine to the cake. Nobody could resist it!

Fudgy cocoa brownies with crispy edges and a tender center prove you don't need fancy chocolate bars when quality cocoa powder delivers the goods.

Chewy vanilla blondies loaded with brown sugar, butter, and optional chocolate chips. Dense, butterscotchy bars with crisp edges that bake in one pan and disappear even faster.

Mo Cookies are a big-batch chocolate chip and nut cookie that yields 60 generous, chewy rounds from a pound of butter and 6 cups of flour. Bake-sale and bake-along ready.

Thin, crispy macadamia nut lace cookies made with brown sugar, dark corn syrup, and butter. Five ingredients that spread into delicate, golden, candy-like wafers.

Maple-glazed apple pie layers thinly sliced apples with a crushed gingersnap, walnut, and brown sugar mixture. A pour of hot maple syrup midway through baking soaks down through the steam vents.

Brazilian jubilee cookies blend instant coffee, cinnamon, and chopped Brazil nuts into a warm-spiced dough, then crown each warm cookie with a pressed chocolate kiss melted into a glossy frosting.

A Southern classic bundt cake made with butter cake mix, sour cream, and a hidden ribbon of cinnamon-brown sugar-nut filling swirled through the center.

Victorian jewels, glistening mini fruitcakes: brandy-soaked candied fruit and raisins in a spiced walnut batter, baked as bite-size muffins and glazed with melted jelly so they shine. A jewel-like holiday gift.

Pumpkin Frangelico cheesecake: a spiced pumpkin cheesecake on a gingersnap crust, spiked with hazelnut Frangelico liqueur and topped with a boozy sour cream layer. The Thanksgiving cheesecake adults reach for first.

Sad cake is a dense, chewy brown-sugar cake studded with coconut and nuts, made easy with a baking mix. It sinks in the middle on purpose, baking up gooey and butterscotchy like a giant blondie.

Buttery brown sugar pecan cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. Slice and bake from chilled or frozen dough for warm, spiced cookies anytime you want them.

Holiday fruit cake bakes candied pineapple, red and green cherries, golden and dark raisins, pecans, and oats into a nutmeg-mace spiced loaf. Wraps and keeps for weeks.