Dessert Recipes

Orange-berry bundt cake, a rich, moist citrus pound cake brightened with orange juice and lemon, made tender with heavy cream and extra egg yolks, then dusted with sugar and crowned with fresh raspberries.

Panforte is the dense, chewy Sienese Christmas cake packed with toasted hazelnuts and almonds, dates, cherries, cocoa, and warm spices, bound by hot honey caramel. A traditional Italian holiday confection.

Drop cookies loaded with peanut butter, oats, and chopped peanuts. Chewy, hearty cookies with both peanut butter and whole peanut crunch in every bite. Makes 4 dozen.

Peanut butter oatmeal cookies with corn syrup, egg whites, and rolled oats. Chewy, lower-fat cookies sweetened with brown sugar and natural peanut butter.

Peanut butter oatmeal cookies with rolled oats and your choice of chocolate chips or chopped peanuts. Chewy centers, crisp edges, and a 5-dozen yield from one batch.

Pecan squares with a buttery shortbread crust and a gooey pecan pie filling baked on a sheet pan. All the flavor of pecan pie in a portable, shareable bar cookie format.

Butter-free pecan sugar cookies with brown sugar, honey, cinnamon, and allspice. Chewy with warm spice flavor and ground pecans in every bite.

Pignoli cookies (pine nut macaroons): the chewy almond-paste Italian classic studded with toasted pine nuts and dusted with powdered sugar. Naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, and totally addictive.

Pistachio chip cookies with white vanilla milk chips, brown sugar, and a touch of oats for chew. Buttery, salty-sweet drop cookies studded with crunchy green pistachios in every bite.

Poor Knights of Windsor: sherry-soaked bread fried golden in butter, dusted with cinnamon, and topped with crushed raspberries and whipped cream. A British dessert classic.

Old-world poppy seed cake with a buttery egg yolk dough topped with ground poppy seeds mixed in cream and orange zest. A traditional Eastern European pastry rolled and baked.

A spicy cookie with a mealy, rather unusual texture.

Pumpkin tunnel cake bakes a brown sugar buttermilk-bran bundt with a hidden ring of spiced pumpkin filling running through the center. Lower-fat with egg whites and oil.

Raspberry chiffon pie with a light, airy gelatin filling and a buttery toasted oat crust. Fluffy beaten egg whites give it a mousse-like texture.

Raspberry paradise pie with a chewy oat-walnut meringue shell holding thickened raspberries, topped with whipped cream and coconut. A gluten-free pie with a built-in granola crust that's crisp on top, chewy at the edges.

Raspberry ribbon cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust with a layer of homemade raspberry sauce baked inside and fresh berries on top. A showstopper dessert.