Dessert Recipes

Creamy homemade cornstarch pudding from scratch with butter and vanilla. Includes variations for chocolate, banana, and butterscotch pudding. One base recipe, four desserts.

Mocha layer cake made with hot coffee, cocoa, sour cream, and folded egg whites, topped with a tangy cream cheese frosting. A rich, tender two-layer chocolate coffee cake from scratch.

Traditional Sicilian fig cookies stuffed with ground figs, dates, raisins, walnuts, and orange, then iced and topped with colored sugar. Makes 10 dozen for the holiday cookie tray.

Sliced apples layered with cinnamon sugar get topped with a simple cake batter that bakes into a tender crust for an effortless dessert that's halfway between apple crisp and cake.

Fudgy chocolate layer cake made with a full cup of cocoa powder, brown sugar, and buttermilk for tender, deep-flavored crumb. Frosted with a melted-chocolate buttercream and topped with chocolate curls. The classic two-layer birthday cake.

Friendship starter applesauce cake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. A sourdough-style cake with deep apple flavor and optional nuts or raisins.

Traditional Greek baklava with layers of buttery phyllo, cinnamon-spiced walnuts, and sweet lemon syrup. This classic nut strudel is crispy, sweet, and utterly addictive.

Bourekakia - Greek honey nut rolls in phyllo dough with cinnamon, orange zest, and a hot honey-lemon syrup. Crispy, buttery pastry spirals soaked in sweet syrup like baklava.

Jamocha rum butter cake soaks devil's food cake with a hot rum-coffee-butter syrup, then crowns it with whipped chocolate-coffee frosting and shaved chocolate. Boozy, moist, and rich.

Kahlua eggnog pie in a chocolate wafer crumb crust with a coffee-spiked custard filling lightened with whipped cream and meringue. A boozy, mousse-like holiday pie that chills overnight for effortless entertaining.

Mississippi Pecan Mud Cake with Chocolate Frosting recipe

Old-fashioned butterscotch cream pie with a deep brown sugar custard, butter and vanilla finish, topped with fresh whipped cream. Classic American pastry-shop dessert from scratch.

Scrumptious peanut butter and banana cake, everyone loves it!

Pumpkin cake with a buttery yellow cake mix crust, spiced pumpkin custard filling, and crumbly streusel topping. Freezer-friendly and perfect for fall gatherings.

Schnecken are German-style cinnamon pecan rolls made from a soft yeasted dough filled with brown sugar, raisins, pecans, and cinnamon, then baked in muffin tins until golden.

Sherry glazed poppy seed cake, a doctored cake mix bundt with sour cream richness, crunchy poppy seeds, and a boozy buttered sherry syrup that soaks deep into every slice.