Dessert Recipes

Mini nut tarts with a flaky cream cheese crust and a brown sugar pecan or walnut filling. Bite-sized pecan-tassie style cookies that bake in mini muffin tins for holiday cookie trays.

Cranberries and pistachios are the complementary flavors of this cookie recipe submitted by Jane Bortz of Beaver Dam.

Bonnie Graber of Oak Creek sent this recipe for an old-fashioned kitchen sink cookie that would be good any time of the year.

Four-ingredient cookies using Bisquick and instant pudding mix. Mix, roll, flatten, and bake in under 10 minutes. The easiest soft cookie recipe when you need something sweet right now.

After carving that Halloween pumpkin, don't toss the seeds. Roast them for a delicious healthy snack.

Swiss Miss mousse is a 3-ingredient chocolate mousse made by dissolving hot cocoa mix in boiling water and folding it into whipped topping. No cooking, no eggs, light and airy, and chilled to set in about 30 minutes.

Cape Breton oatmeal shortbread with rolled oats, brown sugar, and vanilla. Crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth Maritime cookies ready in 40 minutes with just 6 ingredients.

Diabetic-friendly gingerbread men made with whole wheat flour, bran, sugar substitute, and a bold blend of ginger, allspice, and cinnamon. Crisp and spiced without the sugar.

Brown sugar chocolate chip cookies made with butter-flavored shortening for extra chewy centers and crisp edges. Choose your bake time for chewy or crunchy results. Makes 3 dozen with optional pecans.

Chinese red bean pudding, a silky steamed dessert thickened with rice flour and cornstarch, lightly sweetened with raw slab sugar, and studded with soft adzuki beans. Dairy-free and delicately sweet.

This is a fun recipe for you to make with your kids, and your kids will love these chocolate coated spiders!!

in a food processor combine 1 pack of oreos, crush until fine. add 1 8 oc package of cream cheese. blend together. make into balls the size of a walnut. dip into powdered sugar or white chocolate

Oatmeal, dried cranberries, and chocolate chips are all my favorites. I always use low-fat yogurt to replace sour cream if possible. These cookies are so yummy.

Old-fashioned icebox cookies with brown sugar, butter, and chopped nuts. Shape the dough into logs, chill, slice, and bake for crisp, nutty cookies with caramel-rich flavor.

Homemade strudel dough from scratch with just five basic ingredients. Kneaded until elastic, rested, then hand-stretched tissue-paper thin the traditional way.

Hershey's Kiss cookies: tender brown-sugar thumbprint cookies rolled in chopped nuts and crowned with a chocolate kiss the moment they exit the oven. A holiday cookie tray staple.