Dessert Recipes

Make-ahead slice-and-bake hermit cookies with five warming spices, plump raisins, and buttery dough. Roll into logs, freeze, slice, and bake fresh cookies anytime.

Soft honey carrot cookies with shredded carrots, nutmeg, and real honey for natural sweetness. Shaped into 1-inch balls for a tender, cake-like bite.

Soft iced pumpkin cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg, walnuts, and raisins topped with a vanilla cream icing. Cake-like fall cookies that smell like autumn in every bite.

Warm cornmeal pudding sweetened with molasses and brown sugar, spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. This traditional New England dessert bakes up creamy with a characteristic whey center, perfect with cold cream.

Johnny Appleseed cake made with whole wheat flour, applesauce, honey, raisins, and walnuts. An egg-free spice cake sweetened naturally without refined sugar.

Jumbles are a colonial-era ring-shaped cookie scented with rosewater, caraway, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Crisp, buttery, and dusted with sugar. A historical American recipe from the 1700s.

Jumbles are old-fashioned filled sandwich cookies, two rolled rounds enclosing a smear of grape jelly with three peek-a-boo windows cut into the top. Vintage pantry treat.

Lizzies are bourbon-soaked fruitcake cookies with golden raisins, candied cherries, citron, and pecans. A classic Southern holiday cookie that freezes beautifully.

Loshen kugel (Jewish noodle pudding) with broad egg noodles, apple juice, raisins, nutmeg, and chopped walnuts. A lighter, lower-sugar kugel baked golden and topped with nuts.

Maple syrup and brown sugar pie with a buttery crumb topping. Old Quebec-style dessert with a gooey molten filling and a nutmeg-warmed streusel cap.

Macaroon meets chocolate chip cookie in this co-winner in the drop cookie category, with a twist of cinnamon, nutmeg and mint; it's from Jessica Wall-Valadez of Milwaukee.

Mocha crumb cake built on a boxed cake mix spiked with cold coffee and warm spices, finished with a broiled brown sugar granola topping. A quick-to-mix sheet cake with bakery-style crunch.

An absolutely wonderful apple pie that will remind you of simpler days.

No-egg applesauce cake with cocoa, warm spices, raisins, and nuts. Three cups of hot applesauce replace the eggs and most of the fat for an incredibly moist, spiced sheet cake.

Fresh peach pie layers ripe sliced peaches under a glossy peach-and-nutmeg glaze in a pre-baked shell. No double crust, no second bake. The classic American summer fridge pie that lets ripe fruit do the talking.

Oatmeal crunchies with orange zest, nutmeg, and orange-apricot juice for a citrusy twist on classic drop cookies. Crispy edges, chewy centers.