Dessert Recipes

Slice-and-bake molasses cookies with brown sugar, ginger, and a deep rich molasses flavor. Chill the dough, slice thin, and bake until the edges crisp up beautifully.

This is an easy chocolate pie made with tofu. Very mousse-like!

Diabetic-friendly lemon cream pie with a blind-baked pastry crust, tart lemon custard set with gelatin, and a light whipped topping. Bright, creamy, and sugar-free.

Lickety-Split Cocoa Cake: a one-bowl, eggless, dairy-free chocolate cake mixed with water, oil, and a splash of vinegar. The original Depression-era "crazy cake" that bakes up tender every time.

Garlic chocolate chip cookies with blanched garlic cloves soaked in maple syrup, mixed into a buttery dough with brown sugar, nuts, and chocolate chips.

Apple cinnamon cake built on a buttermilk and whole wheat batter, topped with thinly sliced apples and cinnamon sugar. Lighter than a butter-heavy cake, with a tender crumb and warm spice.

Zucchini mock apple pie with sweet raisins folded through and a buttery crumb topping. Lemon juice, cinnamon, and nutmeg fool the taste buds into reading squash as apple, with chewy raisins adding depth.

Five-ingredient Southern pecan dainties with brown sugar, egg whites, and vanilla. Crispy, chewy, flourless pecan cookies baked low and slow. Makes six dozen from one batch.

Cottage cheese pie is an old-fashioned custard pie with a tangy curd filling lightened by beaten egg whites and warmed with vanilla. A simple, frugal dessert with a creamy texture between cheesecake and custard.

Irish barmbrack is a traditional yeasted fruit bread studded with raisins, currants, allspice, and lemon zest. Soft, lightly sweet loaves often baked for Halloween and All Saints' Day.

Whole wheat herb bread with cottage cheese, scallions, dill, and V8 juice: soft yeast loaves enriched with eggs, kneaded until elastic, and baked until golden hollow-sounding.

Tender sour cream pastry rolled with apricot jam, walnuts, and raisins into elegant strudel cookies. These make-ahead sweets are perfect for holiday cookie trays.

Traditional Filipino bibingka made with sticky mochi rice, coconut milk, and dark brown sugar baked on banana leaves. Chewy, sweet, and caramelized on top with a broiled golden crust.

Bourbon Balls with Pecans and Vanilla Wafers recipe

Pillowy soft buttermilk drop cookies baked until pale golden get frosted with sweet buttercream and sprinkled with colored sugar for nostalgic treats.

These citrus honey cookies are so buttery and citrus taste, they are so delicious. Make them every year before Thanksgiving and Christmas, always a big hit, everyone loves these cookies.