Dessert Recipes

Chocolate whoopie pies sandwiched with a fluffy peanut butter filling made the classic cooked-flour-and-milk way, for that bakery-style, marshmallow-soft texture.

Low-cal brownies: a quick blender batter that swaps applesauce for butter and a sugar substitute for sugar, baked into a light chocolate fix. A guilt-free brownie ready in about 30 minutes.

Rubber stamp gingerbread cookies bake up firm enough to hold cutter shapes and decorate, with a pinch of cayenne hiding behind the molasses, ginger, and cloves for unexpected warmth.

Dark chocolate brownies made with both unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate plus brown sugar for chewy edges and a fudgy center. The bake-sale classic with deep chocolate flavor.

Pumpkin layer cake with cooked fresh pumpkin, warm cinnamon, and a tender, moist crumb. A two-layer Thanksgiving and Christmas cake that's lighter than spice cake but just as comforting.

A very moist, custardy pumpkin pie spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove. Lightened up with sugar substitute and skim milk for a lighter slice on the Thanksgiving table.

Daddy's peanut butter cookies: classic crisscross-pressed peanut butter cookies sweetened with both brown and white sugar for chewy edges and tender centers. The everyday cookie kids ask for.

Holley's classic cheesecake with a graham crust, dense sour cream filling, tangy sour cream topping, and a Grand Marnier-spiked hot fudge sauce. The crowd-pleasing dessert that tastes like a celebration.

Better than sex brownies are dense fudgy squares built on melted unsweetened chocolate and shortening, topped with chopped nuts for crackling crunch against the gooey middle.

Pumpkin cake roll spirals a spiced pumpkin sponge around a tangy cream cheese filling. Classic Thanksgiving showstopper that slices into striking pinwheels of orange and white.

Made with 100% whole wheat flour, these moist chocolate muffins are not only addictively delicious, but they are also good for you.

Spiced apple pound cake, a one-bowl Bundt cake made with butter, spiced apple yogurt, and a cinnamon glaze topped with chopped pecans. The autumn coffee cake that turns yogurt into the secret moisture weapon.

Spice cookies with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and clove rolled and cut into festive shapes. The perfect Christmas cookie for decorating with royal icing.

Dense, fudgy brownies with melted chocolate and cocoa in the batter plus mini chocolate chips throughout. Made with just one egg and canola oil for an intensely chocolatey, chewy center.

Reduced fat brownies made with applesauce, cocoa powder, and melted unsweetened chocolate. Fudgy and rich with less oil, topped with toasted walnuts.

Low-fat double chocolate brownies that don't taste like a compromise: unsweetened chocolate, cocoa, and chocolate chips with applesauce standing in for most of the butter. Rich, fudgy, and made with whole wheat flour.