Dessert Recipes

Festival Half Moon Cookies with Chocolate Frosting recipe

A buttery, moist and delicious cake, whoever has it will definitely give you a big "wow".

Mazevozky Prianiki (Russian Rye Honey Cookie) recipe

Three-layer pecan fudge cake made with unsweetened chocolate in both the batter and frosting. Rich, dense, and loaded with chopped pecans throughout.

Rich chocolate bundt cake studded with nuts and crowned with a velvety mocha cream cheese frosting. Inspired by the legendary Waldorf Astoria, this showstopper is pure old-school elegance.

Coconut angel food cake folds shredded coconut into a fat-free egg-white batter, then frosts the cooled tube cake in seven-minute orange frosting and toasted coconut.

I added some pureed strawberries and a couple of drops of red food coloring to make the cake pink.

Low-fat s'mores cake bakes all the campfire flavor into a light graham-cracker crumb cake. Applesauce stands in for the butter, with broiled marshmallows and chocolate chips melting over the top.

Lemon macaroon pie with coconut, fresh lemon juice, and almond extract in a from-scratch butter crust. Topped with vanilla whipped cream and lemon slices.

Chewy almond paste macaroons with crackled tops and tender centers, baked from a homemade four-day-aged paste of blanched almonds and egg whites. The classic Italian-style cookie before the French sandwich version took over.

Three-layer Southern coconut cake with a tangy crushed-pineapple filling and billowy seven-minute frosting. An almond-scented butter cake stacked with grated coconut between every layer.

German chocolate pound cake with a dense, buttery crumb made from cake flour, buttermilk, and melted German sweet chocolate. Baked low and slow in a tube pan for a tender, fine-textured slice.

Old-fashioned vinegar chocolate cake with sour milk, melted chocolate, and a vinegar-baking soda fizz for lift. A heritage two-layer recipe with a tender, velvety crumb.

Red velvet cake made from scratch with a buttermilk-and-vinegar tang, a whisper of cocoa, and a tender oil-based crumb. Crowned with classic cream cheese frosting for the real Southern bakery version.

Devil's food cake: a deep, dark, three-layer chocolate cake built on melted chocolate and sour milk for that signature reddish-brown crumb. The classic American showstopper that puts boxed mixes to shame.

Upside-down chocolate cake baked over a brown-sugar caramel with apricot halves and maraschino cherries. Cocoa-rich cake flipped onto the platter for a glossy fruit top.