Dessert Recipes

Thick, peppery cream gravy made from a butter or bacon fat roux, milk, and freshly cracked black pepper. Ready in 20 minutes and just right for smothering biscuits, fried chicken, or country-fried steak.

Oreo dirt cake is the no-bake party dessert that looks like a bucket of dirt, with crushed Oreos layered over a creamy cream cheese and vanilla pudding filling, topped with gummy worms. A guaranteed kids' party hit.

If you can't find orange cake mix, use white or golden---just use orange juice in place of the water when preparing the mix, and add 1 tsp. of orange extract/flavoring. To the topping I also add 3/4 tsp. each of vanilla and orange extract. Garnish, if desired, with Mandarin orange segments.

They are delicious and pretty. Make these chocolate crinkle cookies as Christmas gift, you will get rave reviews back.

You may also try and roll with a rolling pin but may not work since these will be soft after they are baked.

Classic Viennese Christmas cookie. Soft and buttery with a dusting of snowy sugar.

Pineapple coconut pie, an old-fashioned single-crust dessert with a rich custard filling of crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, butter, sugar, and eggs. One bowl, one pie pan.

Maple praline biscotti loaded with toasted pecans, flavored with maple extract, and dipped in a maple powdered sugar glaze. Twice-baked for a crispy snap.

Wendy Lindsey of Wauwatosa sent this winning no-bake cookie, which any date and coconut lover will find irresistible.

Blueberry cheesecake bakes a velvety vanilla cream cheese filling on a buttery graham crust, crowned with sweet blueberry topping. A no-fuss potluck dessert that always disappears.

Almond ginger biscotti with the proper twice-baked crunch, studded with whole almonds, candied ginger and warm cardamom. Crisp, dunkable Italian cookies that keep for weeks in the jar.

Pineapple bundt cake with crushed pineapple folded into a buttery cake-flour batter and a sneaky hit of lemon extract to brighten the tropical flavor. Tender, moist, and gorgeous from the fluted pan.

These chocolaty and moist cupcakes are filled with cream cheese and chocolate chips filling that adds extra creaminess and chocolaty taste into every bite. Decorate these delicious cupcakes into Halloween spiders, skulls, skeleton, mummies... Whichever way you or your kids love. Being creative and make sure to make a few bunches, they will disappear quickly.

A moist, fluffy and delicious carrot cake, and it is very easy to make, it's always a hit at my family dinner table.

Truly the best ever old fashioned ginger snap cookies. Enjoy!

his is a concentrated, liquid coffee easily found in Ireland, but probably not in the States. I would dissolve 2 T of a good instant coffee in an equivalent amount of water, and use that.