Dessert Recipes

No bake, 7-up lemon pudding cake made in a spring-form pan. It's more like a pie than a cake.

Simple cheesecake with graham cracker crust and three-ingredient filling: cream cheese, eggs, and sugar baked 20 minutes, then topped with fresh fruit or flavored with coffee, almonds, or pumpkin.

One of the best carrot cakes I've ever had with a decadent cream cheese frosting.

Spiced apple cake with warm cinnamon and nutmeg, crowned with a silky rum sauce made in a double boiler. Bake ahead and reheat for easy entertaining with make-ahead convenience.

Moist spice cake made with apricot baby food and puréed canned apricots, topped with boiled brown sugar icing.

It takes some time to make this decadent cake, but whoever tastes it will tell you how delicious it is. They might think this is from some high-end bakery.

Rich chocolate drop cookies with a sour cream batter and glossy chocolate-coffee icing drizzled on top. Old-fashioned bakery-style cookies that melt on your tongue.

Move over banana bread. This banana frosted and glazed German chocolate banana cake recipe steals the show.

Buttercream filled oatmeal sandwich cookies: chewy oat-and-corn-syrup rounds sandwiched around a silky cooked-yolk buttercream. Bakery-style sandwich cookies for tins and dessert trays.

Yeasted anise biscotti from Genoa, made with a sponge starter for a lighter, bread-like crumb. Twice-baked with butter and aniseed, these are nothing like ordinary biscotti.

Rich chocolate cake meets tangy cream cheese in marbled cupcakes studded with mini chocolate chips for a bakery-style treat that delivers two flavors in every bite.

Walnut-stuffed dates wrapped in buttery sour cream cookie dough and brushed with a vanilla glaze. These retro blind date cookies are chewy, nutty, and irresistible.

A lighter blueberry pie with a graham cracker crust, baked nonfat cream cheese filling, blueberry pie filling, and fluffy whipped topping. Uses reduced-fat ingredients throughout without sacrificing the layered indulgence everyone loves.

Spiced brown sugar bundt cake with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and cloves, baked with chopped pecans and finished with a butterscotch glaze. Holiday-table ready.

Rich chocolate Cajun pound cake with devil's food mix, chocolate pudding, rum extract, and chocolate chips. Topped with a glossy cocoa glaze. Easy one-bowl recipe, bakes in under an hour.

Homemade cannoli from scratch with Marsala wine shells and sweet ricotta filling studded with chocolate chips and candied citron. Crispy, creamy, and worth every minute of effort.