Dessert Recipes

Traditional German Christmas butter cookies (Weihnachtsplätzchen) with vanilla and almond extract, rolled and cut into festive shapes. Decorated with colored sugar, nuts, and candied cherries.

These Easter Bunny Face Cupcakes are so cute, and cakes are so moist, coated with vanilla frosting and coconut flakes, enjoy these pretty bunny face cupcakes!

Easy to prepare sweet cheese filling that's prefect for Danishes.

A touch of Irish Cream teams up with chocolate for a mouth-watering change of pace.

Sugar-free blond brownies built on a no-sugar white cake mix with mint chocolate chips and peanut butter chips folded in. A diabetic-friendly dessert with classic blondie texture and chocolate-mint surprise.

Hmmm, these cookies were so good. Nothing is like chocolate chip peanut butter cookie, just by reading these words is making me salivate. These cookies were so easy to make, and tasted absolutely delicious. I don't have to say much, you know what I mean :)

Therapeutic oatmeal cookies where you squeeze, smash, and beat the dough to release stress: brown sugar, margarine, oats, and flour become tender cookies through aggression.

Lighter oatmeal raisin cookies with quick oats, brown sugar, and a quarter cup of butter. Egg substitute trims the cholesterol while keeping the chewy texture intact. Yields 36 lunchbox-sized cookies.

I have loved this recipe for years. The cookies are moist and yuummmmmmmy.

Pineapple fudge cooked stovetop with crushed pineapple, marshmallows, and pecans, then beaten to a creamy, old-fashioned finish. Ready in 30 minutes and yields nearly 49 pieces.

Punchbowl Cake layers crumbled yellow cake, vanilla pudding, cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, bananas, coconut, and pecans in a stunning no-bake party dessert. A Southern crowd-pleaser that feeds a crowd.

Cherry chocolate chip cookies with chopped maraschino cherries, semi-sweet chips, and almond extract in a chewy brown sugar dough. Bake 8 minutes for chewy, 13 for crisp.

The 2nd place winner in the Chicago Tribune's 1996 Annual Holiday Cookie Contest, a simple brown-sugar shortbread from Sandra Petrille of Naperville, Illinois.

Ricotta and cream cheese blend with amaretto liqueur and vanilla in this lighter cheesecake where a graham cracker crust supports creamy filling that's less dense than New York style but just as satisfying.

Irish soda bread flavored cookies, enjoy irish soda bread in these tiny cookies!

Oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and three warm spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom. The chewy holiday-leaning take on the classic. Four dozen per batch.