Dessert Recipes

Amazing recipe! I love this...reminds me of my grandma's cookies. People devour these. I use a buttercream frosting, homemade to frost them. I found the recipe on the back of the confectioners sugar bag. 10 stars...this recipe is a keeper!

M&M peanut butter cookies with oats: a chewy peanut-butter base studded with semi-sweet M&M's for the candy-shell crunch. A colorful spin on the classic peanut butter cookie.

Banana loaf cake comes together from just five ingredients, including ripe mashed bananas and self-rising flour, for a moist, tender everyday loaf. A simple bake that's lovely with a cup of tea.

Orange bundt cake with fresh orange juice and zest in the batter, finished with a warm bourbon-butter-sugar glaze that soaks into the hot cake. Freezes beautifully.

Oreo Surprise, a no-bake layered icebox dessert: crushed Oreo crust, sweet cream cheese cream, chocolate pudding, and whipped topping, crowned with cookie crumbs. Best made the night before.

Fruit cake cookies loaded with candied cherries, candied pineapple, white raisins, and pecans with brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Holiday baking in cookie form.

Chewy praline cookies with brown sugar, butter, and chopped pecans. Thin, crisp-edged, and candy-like with a soft center. Just six ingredients and 20 minutes start to finish.

The original 1939 Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe, straight from Ruth Wakefield's kitchen. Butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and semi-sweet chips with chopped walnuts. Makes 100 cookies with crispy edges and chewy, melty centers.

Love apricots, and this double apricot bread was right up to my ally. The bread was so moist and delicious. Breakfast, snack, or dessert. Yum, yum!

Light rum balls roll up in 5 minutes from ground walnuts, vanilla wafer crumbs, honey, and rum. No-bake holiday cookies that stash in a tin for over a month and only get better with age.

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.

Raisin cake loaded with chopped apples, plump raisins, and warm cinnamon and cloves. Sour cream keeps the crumb tender, while a cozy spice blend turns this old-fashioned spice cake into a fall-baking favorite.

Grated chocolate folded into airy chiffon cake batter creates a light, tender crumb crowned with rich mocha frosting studded with chocolate flecks.

Almond crescent cookies, a classic holiday shortbread shaped into delicate crescents with chopped almonds, vanilla, and almond extract, rolled in powdered sugar after baking. Buttery, tender, slightly sandy.

Almonds, chocolate and coffee make these delicious biscotti. A great snack with a cup of tea or coffee.

If you think zucchini is just not your thing, this moist and chocolaty zucchini rum cake will knock your socks off and you even won't notice that there is zucchini in it. Such a deliciously sweet way to use up some of your seasonal zucchinis.