Dessert Recipes

A moist cinnamon-spiced sheet cake loaded with chopped apples and walnuts, topped with tangy lemon butter frosting for crowd-pleasing potluck perfection.

Classic springerle: traditional German anise cookies embossed with intricate designs, dried overnight, and baked pale, then mellowed for a week into crisp, picture-perfect holiday treats.

This is a wonderful, dense, almost brownie-like cake.

Sliced Kiwi and Banana with Strawberry Puree recipe

Microwave bundt cake spiked with creme de cocoa and orange juice, swirled with chocolate syrup. Rich, boozy, and ready in 25 minutes flat.

Oil-based apple nut cake loaded with chopped walnuts and fresh apples. A one-bowl recipe with just enough sweetness and a tender, moist crumb that stays fresh for days.

Christmas crackers are sweet honey-wheat holiday cookies stamped with cookie cutters and sprinkled with sugar. Makes 45 crispy-edged rectangles for gifting or dipping.

Pear and cranberry tart with a buttery oat crumble topping. Tart cranberries burst in a sweet corn syrup sauce with tender sliced pears underneath the crisp.

Luxurious banana cream pie with a from-scratch vanilla custard, whipped cream, and glazed banana slices on top. A show-stopping dessert that's miles beyond the diner version.

Eggless chocolate banana snack cake with mashed ripe banana, cocoa, brown sugar, and a vinegar-baking soda lift. Topped with melted chocolate chips. A no-egg, no-dairy 8-inch square cake.

Coca-Cola Cake with Hot Fudge Icing and Nuts recipe

Fresh pear pie with sliced pears spiced with mace, baked in a single crust under a brown sugar streusel topping. Classic fall fruit pie with crumb crown.

German apple cream kuchen with yeast dough base, cinnamon apples, and creamy cheesecake topping for an elegant hybrid dessert best served warm from the oven.

Diabetic-friendly apple salad with a whole marinated apple cut into flower-like sections and filled with spiced applesauce, raisins, and crisp celery.

Chocolate drop cookies are soft, cake-like buttermilk cookies made with melted unsweetened chocolate and chopped walnuts. An old-fashioned drop cookie recipe that yields 3 dozen.

Sisibakwat-Okwemin, a Native American sugared cherry dessert simmered in maple sugar syrup. Three ingredients, traditional Okanagan recipe served with bannock.