Dessert Recipes

Halloween mini pumpkin cupcakes are tender pumpkin spice bites topped with cream cheese frosting tinted orange, black, and white. Decorate with candy and sugar crystals for spooky kid-friendly party treats.

A double-crust apple pie sweetened with brown sugar instead of white for deep butterscotch flavor that tastes like fall itself.

Traditional plum dumplings made with potato dough, farina, and fresh plums stuffed with sugar. Boiled until tender and topped with buttered bread crumbs.

Chocolate and cherries - always a great combo - are enhanced in this winning shaped-cookie recipe by a coating of cocoa and powdered sugar. It was submitted by Lois A. Hernandez of West Allis.

Dense, buttery sour cream pound cake loaded with mini chocolate chips and baked in a fluted tube pan. Six eggs, a full cup of butter, and sour cream create a velvety, tight crumb. Dust with powdered sugar and slice thick.

Ultra-moist chocolate zucchini cake with shredded zucchini hidden in a cocoa batter loaded with chocolate chips and walnuts. The sneakiest way to use up summer zucchini, and nobody will guess the secret ingredient.

Lightened cranberry cake with whole berries on the bottom and a tender egg-white batter on top. A jewel-toned holiday dessert with naturally sweet-tart bite.

A creamy tofu-based cheesecake loaded with almond flavor from almond meal, almond extract, and a crown of slivered almonds on a graham cracker crust. Blend, pour, bake. No dairy, no eggs, no stress.

These delicious and melted in your mouth cookies don't last long.

Rhubarb pie sweetened with light brown sugar instead of white, with thin lemon slices layered between the rhubarb for bright citrus contrast. A lattice-topped pie that's tart, caramelly, and old-fashioned.

A traditional European-style fruit cake -- Although fruitcakes have a bad reputation, this one is *excellent*.

Moist and chocolaty cake, a decedent dessert to enjoy at any occasion.

Kentucky bourbon brown sugar pound cake: a tender bundt-style pound cake spiked with real bourbon and sweetened with dark brown sugar for a caramel-deep, slightly boozy Southern classic.

Feathery fudge cake: a light, airy two-layer chocolate cake with melted unsweetened chocolate and a creaming-method batter. Tender, fluffy crumb that takes any frosting beautifully.

Fruit puffed cookies made with angel food cake mix, dried fruit, and pecans. Just 4 ingredients for light, airy cookies that puff up golden in under 10 minutes.

Buttery macadamia nut biscotti with half the nuts ground into the dough and half left whole. Twice-baked for a crisp, crunchy cookie with rich tropical flavor.