Dessert Recipes

Vintage Midwest Jell-O salad with lime gelatin, sour cream, crushed pineapple, pecans, and maraschino cherries. No baking required. Set, slice into squares, and top with whipped cream.

Old-fashioned Southern cream cookies made with sour cream, walnuts, and pressed flat with a cinnamon-sugar glass. Soft, cakey drop cookies that yield six dozen from one batch.

Sunshine orange cream cake layered with tangy sour cream and fresh orange slices. A from-scratch sheet cake split into two layers with a bright, creamy citrus filling.

A thin, fudgy chocolate sheet cake with sour cream for moisture, topped with a warm boiled cocoa icing poured on while still hot. Bakes in a jelly roll pan and feeds a big crowd fast.

Rich white chocolate cheesecake on a cinnamon-almond crust, served over fresh raspberry Grand Marnier sauce. A stunning baked cheesecake with a water bath method for crack-free results every time.

Fudgy chocolate brownies with both unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate plus a hit of sour cream for tang and tenderness. Dense, dark, and bakery-style.

Tender sour cream brownies studded with chocolate chips. The sour cream creates extra-moist texture that stays fudgy for days in this simple one-bowl recipe.

Mom's poppy seed bundt cake with canned poppy seed filling, sour cream, and folded egg whites for a moist, tender crumb. Topped with a simple powdered sugar glaze.

Marble cheesecake with swirled vanilla and cocoa batters on a chocolate crumb crust. Baked with a slow cool-down method for a creamy, crack-free finish every time.

A multi-layered chocolate showstopper: fudgy brownie, chocolate ganache, cocoa meringue, mocha mousse, and rum sauce all in one jaw-dropping dessert.

Chocolate chip cream cheese brownies layered with a sour cream chocolate batter, a sweetened cream cheese ribbon, and a top scattering of chips. Fudgy, tangy, three textures in every bite.

Pumpkin cheesecake layers a graham cracker crust with spiced pumpkin cream cheese filling and a sour cream topping, finished with pecan halves. The perfect Thanksgiving and Christmas dessert.

Hazelnut cheesecake with a toasted hazelnut and vanilla wafer crust, creme de cocoa in the filling, and a broiled sour cream topping. Rich and nutty.

Helen's Cheesecake with a ground pecan and graham cracker crust, a lemon-kissed cream cheese filling, and a sour cream topping baked right on. Refrigerate 24 to 72 hours - patience is the secret ingredient.

Double chocolate cheesecake with a chocolate wafer and macadamia nut crust, sour cream topping, and frozen chocolate shavings. A rich, creamy no-crack baked cheesecake.

Sour cream sugar cakes, soft tender drop cookies made with sour cream and half butter, half shortening. Lightly sugared tops, cake-like crumb, a forgotten heartland classic.