Dessert Recipes

German plum cake (Zwetschgenkuchen) layers fresh plum wedges over a yeast-and-baking-powder dough, finished with cardamom sugar. A late-summer Bavarian classic for coffee hour.

Golden, slightly browned and puffed homemade lady fingers. Make your favorite desserts with them, you will not be disappointed.

Made this apple cake a while ago, and finally got the photos uploaded. The cake was moist and delicious. I used half whole wheat flour and half all-purpose flour to make it a bit healthier, reduced sugar to 1 1/2 cups, which was sweet enough for us. Also added 1/2 cup chopped pecans to the apples, and it was a great addition.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.