Dessert Recipes

Fresh figs poached in port and creme de cassis, the wine reduced to a glossy syrup, served over vanilla frozen yogurt. An elegant, low-fat dessert with deep berry and fig flavor from just a few ingredients.

Substitute the cake for the cobbler with this quick and easy to follow recipe.

Raspberry meringues are pink, pillowy egg-white cookies flavored with seedless raspberry preserves. Low-fat, gluten-free, and slow-baked to crisp-shell, tender-center perfection.

Rhubarb sorbet sweetened with honey and brightened with orange zest, lightened with whipped egg whites. A pale pink, refreshing dessert that captures spring rhubarb at its best.

This is excellent served as a spread over fresh French bread or roasted potatoes.

Santa Claus cookies are soft drop cookies with bright lemon zest, baked then frosted and decorated into jolly Santa faces. A Christmas cookie tray classic for kids.

Santa Claus cookies decorate flat sugar cookies with red sugar caps, miniature marshmallow tassels, currant eyes, cinnamon candy noses, and coconut beards. A festive holiday craft cookie kids can help build from baked rounds.

A delicate Asian-style steamed seafood custard (chawanmushi) with whole clams, fresh ginger, scallions, and umami-rich fish sauce. Light, savory, silky, and ready in under an hour.

Sawmill cake with no eggs and no dairy, just cocoa, vinegar, and margarine for a moist, dark chocolate sheet cake. The Depression-era one-bowl dessert born from pantry shortages.

Used in drinks, desserts and all kinds of recipes. A staple of any confectioners repertoire.

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

Sliced Kiwi and Banana with Strawberry Puree recipe

Snickers pie assembly with fudge filling, chopped candy bars, cream cheese layer and milk chocolate drizzle. Decadent triple-layer chocolate pie finished cold.

Blended dried fruit pudding made with peaches, apricots, dates, and pineapple soaked in lemon juice. A naturally sweet no-cook dessert with no added sugar.

Spiced applesauce cookies with cinnamon and cloves bake into soft, cake-like drops sweetened with thick unsweetened applesauce. Makes 3 dozen tender old-fashioned cookies in 30 minutes.

Diabetic-friendly strawberries Romanoff: fresh strawberries folded into a sweetened yogurt with a whisper of nutmeg. Four ingredients, no sugar, five minutes to a guilt-free dessert.