Dessert Recipes

Chewy coconut almond macaroons made with homemade almond paste, ground coconut, and egg whites. Naturally gluten-free, crisp on the outside, soft in the middle. Makes 3 to 4 dozen.

Buttery tangerine shortbread with fresh citrus peel and juice baked into a crisp, golden wedge. Only 5 ingredients for a melt-in-your-mouth cookie that's easy to make in bulk.

Farfallette Dolci are Italian bow-tie fried pastries flavored with orange and almond, tied into loose knots and dusted with powdered sugar. A traditional Italian Carnevale sweet with a crisp, delicate shatter.

Chewy maple oat bars with real maple syrup, rolled oats, and chopped nuts. A one-bowl, mix-and-bake treat with warm maple flavor in every bite.

Lemon glazed buttermilk bundt cake: tender buttermilk pound-cake base with vanilla, lemon, and almond extracts under a glossy lemon-butter glaze. Classic potluck bundt for any occasion.

Basler Brunsli are flourless Swiss chocolate almond cookies spiced with cinnamon and cloves, cut into festive shapes. A traditional Basel Christmas cookie, chewy inside with a crackly crust.

Sour cream pound cake with a triple extract blend of lemon, orange, and vanilla baked in a bundt pan. Dense, buttery, and incredibly moist with a fine, velvety crumb.

Old-fashioned double-crust lemon pie filled with thin lemon slices in a buttery sugar-egg filling, topped with a cinnamon-sugar crust. Tart, sweet, and meant to be served warm.

Deep-fried fruit fritters made with apples, pears, and bananas in a light vanilla batter, served with a warm lemon-bourbon sauce. A Creole-inspired dessert.

European-style apple cake presses a rum-spiked shortbread base into a sheet pan, then tops it with grated tart apples, raisins, nuts, and cinnamon sugar. A sliceable, freezable bar-style cake.

Applesauce Walnut Cake with Butter Frosting recipe

Buttery bundt cake studded with poppy seeds and swirled with sweet filling, delivering bakery-quality texture without the fat thanks to buttermilk tang and fluffy egg whites.

Brown sugar apple pie with a spiced crumb topping of cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace. Five cups of sliced apples heaped into a flaky shell and baked golden.

Fresh raspberry crisp with an oat and brown sugar crumble topping baked until golden. A six-ingredient summer dessert that lets ripe raspberries do all the talking.

Honey icing made with a boiled sugar-honey syrup poured over beaten egg whites with melted marshmallows. A fluffy, glossy frosting with floral honey sweetness for cakes.

Bizcochitos are the official state cookie of New Mexico: lard-based shortbread perfumed with anise and sweet wine, dusted in cinnamon sugar, and baked into delicate flaky rounds. The traditional Christmas and wedding cookie of the Southwest.