Dessert Recipes

Ginger honey cheesecake with crystallized ginger, golden raisins, and sour cream on a graham cracker crust. Warm spice meets creamy tang in every slice.

Ginger molasses skillet cake baked in cast iron with brown sugar, five warm spices, pine nuts on top, and a sour cream whipped cream. Served warm from the pan.

Spiced gingerbread baked in mason jars with molasses, crystallized ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. A charming gift-worthy dessert served warm with lemon sauce.

Glazed lemon squares with a Bisquick shortbread base, a tangy lemon-coconut custard filling, and a sweet lemon glaze on top. A bright, citrusy bar cookie with three distinct layers.

Soft apple cookies loaded with raisins, nuts, and warm spices, topped with a vanilla powdered sugar glaze. Apple juice in the batter doubles down on fresh apple flavor.

Gold medal caramel bars layer a chocolate cake mix base with caramel topping and chocolate chips, then crumbled cake mix streusel. Four-ingredient potluck bars for the cookie swap.

Golden fruitcake with dried apricots, raisins, candied cherries, orange peel, citron, and shaved almonds in a light cake flour batter. Baked low and slow for 4 gorgeous holiday loaves.

A rice pudding style custard dessert from Louisiana.

Old-fashioned sour cream drop cookies that bake up soft and pillowy. Versatile enough for chocolate chips, raisins, nuts, or rolled and cut into shapes.

Granny cake is a no-fuss pineapple sheet cake with a brown sugar nut topping baked on, then soaked with a hot vanilla milk glaze. A vintage dump-and-stir recipe with no butter in the batter.

Triple-chocolate bundt cake made with chocolate cake mix, chocolate pudding, sour cream, and chocolate chips. A dense, ultra-moist semi-homemade cake with fudgy pockets of melted chips.

Green pepper jelly made with fresh bell peppers, vinegar, cayenne, and Certo pectin. A sweet-hot condiment that pairs with cream cheese and crackers, grilled meats, or barbecue.

To see a very similar dessert I made this summer, check out my Grilled Peaches with Coconut Milk Ice Cream recipe.

Halloween spiderweb cheesecake is a no-bake creamy vanilla cheesecake on chocolate crust, decorated with a piped-and-pulled chocolate web. A spooky kid-friendly dessert ready to chill in 10 minutes.

Spooky chocolate cookies with pretzel stick legs coated in melted chocolate and sprinkles with candy eyes. These Halloween tarantula treats are fun to make with kids.

Harvest pumpkin bars with canned pumpkin, cinnamon, and a smart soy flour boost for extra protein. Soft, moist sheet pan bars perfect for fall potlucks.