Dessert Recipes

Simple Chinese almond cookies that stay pale and cream-colored, decorated with whole almonds or red food coloring dots. Traditional cookies perfect for celebrations.

Almond crisp bars with rolled oats, coconut, and toasted almond pieces in a buttery brown sugar base. Six ingredients pressed into a pan, baked, and cut while warm into chewy-crisp squares.

Twice-baked Jewish biscotti loaded with crunchy almonds, mixed dried fruit, and a cinnamon-sugar crust. Crisp edges meet tender centers in this traditional cookie perfect for dunking in coffee or tea.

Tender drop cookies with slivered almonds and almond extract, baked at low temperature until lightly golden. Classic sandies that melt in your mouth.

Half-whole-wheat apple nut cookies with diced fresh apples, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. Cake-like, soft-textured drop cookies that taste like apple pie filling baked into a cookie. Makes 48.

Chocolate thumbprint cookies rolled in powdered sugar with a rich chocolate ganache filling. Brown sugar shortbread base with chopped chocolate chips baked into the dough.

German apple cream kuchen with yeast dough base, cinnamon apples, and creamy cheesecake topping for an elegant hybrid dessert best served warm from the oven.

Light-as-air vintage pie with sweetened applesauce folded into stiffly beaten egg whites, baked until the filling puffs golden and sets into soft clouds.

Oil-based apple nut cake loaded with chopped walnuts and fresh apples. A one-bowl recipe with just enough sweetness and a tender, moist crumb that stays fresh for days.

Flaky pastry squares layered with spiced apple filling and crumbly streusel topping, drizzled with vanilla glaze. These hand-held treats bake up golden and taste like portable apple pie.

Apple pie streusel folds chopped apples into a sour cream custard inside a single crust, then crowns it with a buttery cinnamon streusel topping. The Pennsylvania Dutch sour cream apple pie.

Classic apple pie in a graham cracker crust with crumbly brown sugar topping. Brush the crust with egg yolk to seal it, pile in spiced apples, then add buttery streusel on top.

Light gelatin dessert made with sugar-free Jello and chilled applesauce instead of water. Cinnamon adds warmth. Garnish with mint, apple slices, and cinnamon sticks for pretty presentation.

Apple sour cream coffee cake layers buttery batter with sliced apples and a cinnamon-sugar-nut streusel ribbon, topped with more streusel for a tender, bakery-style brunch cake.

Flaky pastry bars filled with thin-sliced MacIntosh apples, raisins, and sugar, topped with lattice strips. Sour cream dough creates tender layers. Dust with powdered sugar while warm for elegant finish.

Apple or pear upside-down cake baked in a cast iron pan with a buttery base and golden caramelized fruit. A simple six-ingredient cake with crisp sugary edges and tender fruit on top.