Dessert Recipes

Irish curd cake: a traditional sieved cottage cheese cheesecake in a shortbread crust with lemon zest and a sugar-butter glaze. Light alternative to heavy American cheesecake.

Lemon almond madeleines: classic French shell-shaped tea cakes with ground almonds and fresh lemon zest, finished with powdered sugar. Twenty-four buttery cookies for tea time.

Lemon butter biscotti: buttery lemon-zest dough rounds layered with microwave vanilla pastry cream in cupcake pans, then baked into individual lemon cream pastries.

Lemon oat lacies are crisp, lacy oatmeal cookies brightened with fresh lemon zest and dusted with powdered sugar. Buttery shortbread meets oatmeal in a delicate egg-free cookie.

Light lemon bundt cake with fresh lemon zest and juice gets soaked in citrus glaze while warm, then served with fresh berries for summer picnics or potlucks.

Vegan lemon tofu cheesecake with a Grape-Nuts-and-maple crust and a bright, creamy silken tofu filling. Dairy-free cheesecake that slices clean and skips the cream cheese entirely.

No-bake lemon-ginger cheesecake with a gingersnap and vanilla wafer crust, gelatin-set cream cheese filling, and lemon curd swirl. Bright citrus and warm ginger in every slice.

Diabetic-friendly lemon meringue pie sweetened with fructose and sugar substitute. The classic citrus dessert with a glossy meringue, formulated for lower-impact glucose response.

These biscuits are called bones to chew because they are hard and pale. They are traditionally baked on All Soul's Day in Italy.

Unlike New York style cheesecake, this cheese pie is much lighter and much lower fat; but it is still creamy, smooth and tasty, sour cream gives the extra zing, and the lemon zest brings the refreshing flavor.

Lemon poppy seed cake builds a tender tube cake with butter, cream cheese, lemon juice and zest, whipped egg whites, and poppy seeds, finished with a tart lemon glaze.

Chewy spice cookies are low-fat molasses cookies sweetened with applesauce, scented with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice, then drizzled with lemon icing. Holiday spice cookies without butter or eggs.

Moist lemon blueberry cake with cornmeal, buttermilk, and fresh lemon zest. Bursting with 3 cups of blueberries, this from-scratch sheet cake has a golden crumb and bright citrus flavor in every slice.

An elegant no-bake amaretto cheesecake on a baked hazelnut macaroon crust. A light, gelatin-set cream cheese filling spiked with almond liqueur over a nutty, chewy-crisp base.

Classic cheesecake supreme with a cinnamon-walnut graham cracker crust and a creamy lemon-vanilla filling, plus four variations: low-fat berry marble, sour cream, chocolate, and chocolate swirl.

Italian tiramisu with whipped mascarpone, cottage cheese and egg yolks, layered over coffee-soaked ladyfingers and dusted with cocoa. Includes a strawberry-rhubarb variation. Make-ahead, no-bake dessert.