Dessert Recipes

Easy eggnog cookies: classic Christmas roll-out cookies made with real eggnog and freshly grated nutmeg. Crisp edges, soft centers, perfect for decorating with kids.

Granny Smith apple pie packs tart sliced apples between flaky shortening crusts with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and lemon zest, finished with a honey-spiced whipped cream on the side.

Apple praline cheesecake layers spiced sauteed apples into a cream cheese filling, then bakes under a buttery brown sugar pecan praline crust. Fall dessert showstopper.

Old-fashioned coconut custard pie made from a fresh whole coconut. Coconut milk infuses dairy milk before joining eggs and sugar in a single crust for the deepest, purest coconut flavor.

Impossible blender coconut pie that forms its own crust while baking. Everything blended together and poured into a greased pie plate for a self-crusting coconut custard pie.

Old-fashioned sour cream cookies with nutmeg, rolled and cut into rounds with a sugar-sprinkled top. Soft, tender, and lightly spiced with a big-batch yield of 60 cookies.

Banana fritters in a nutmeg-spiced batter, deep-fried until golden and tossed in powdered sugar. A quick stovetop dessert ready in under 25 minutes.

Jamaican banana bread custard with dark rum, apricot preserves, and a rich egg custard baked over bread and ripe bananas. Warm, tropical bread pudding.

Papaya pie with warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin pie spice in a custard-style filling. A tropical twist on pumpkin pie with a similar sweet, spiced flavor.

Spice walnut cake marries toasted walnuts with whole-wheat pastry and barley flours, warm cinnamon and clove, then soaks in a fresh orange syrup after baking. A healthier Greek-inspired karydopita.

Spiced spritz cookies with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice pressed into festive shapes. Egg-white based for a crisp, light texture with warm holiday spice flavor.

Spiced pumpkin or winter squash cake with a classic cooked caramel frosting. Four autumn spices, buttermilk tenderness, and a rich old-fashioned finish worth the candy thermometer.

Apple cookies with butterscotch chips, walnuts, and brown sugar topped with a cinnamon butter glaze and a walnut half. A soft, fruit-studded fall cookie.

Authentic Pennsylvania Dutch shoo fly pie with a deep molasses filling and spiced brown sugar crumb topping with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. A true wet-bottom pie from the Amish tradition.

Whole apples wrapped in pastry and baked in cinnamon sugar syrup. Fill cored apples with spiced sugar and butter, wrap in pastry, bake in hot syrup.

Whole wheat apple cake bars with wheat germ, walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Dense, fruity, and lightly spiced, cut into bars and dusted with powdered sugar.