Dessert Recipes

Coconut-almond cheesecake with vanilla wafer crust tastes like a Mounds bar in creamy, baked form and makes an impressive dessert for chocolate lovers and coconut fans.

Israeli upside-down apple cake made with potato starch instead of flour, naturally gluten-free. Whole apples stuffed with walnuts and raisins bake in a caramel base topped with a light sponge.

Sour cream apple pie with a thick walnut-cinnamon streusel topping. Granny Smiths in vanilla custard under a buttery crumble. The high-heat start sets the shell, the low finish cooks the apples through.

Banana Passover sponge cake made with cake meal and potato starch, lifted by seven whipped egg whites. A flourless angel-food-style cake for Passover dessert tables.

Pearls and chocolate cookies are chewy dark chocolate drop cookies loaded with white chocolate chips (the pearls). A reverse-palette chocolate chip cookie, ready in 20 minutes.

Irish potato cake with mashed potatoes, melted chocolate, pecans, and raisins baked in a bundt pan. A spiced, dense cake where the potatoes keep every slice incredibly moist.

A delicious variation on the traditional pound cake! As noted in the recipe, the main ingredient measurements are by weight NOT volume. You'll notice that they are all one pound each. THAT'S what makes a TRUE pound cake.

I make this cake for about 10 years, every time people like it.

These scrumptious cookies are a great treat for dessert after a hearty meal.

Dense one-bowl apple cake with orange juice, almonds, and apple pie spice for a simple everyday dessert that's moist and tender from chopped whole apples.

Austrian Gugelhupf is a buttery yeasted bundt cake studded with raisins, currants, and orange zest, crowned with blanched almonds and a snowy dusting of powdered sugar. A Viennese coffee house classic.

Cape Cod cranberry-blueberry crisp with maple syrup, oat-almond topping, and whole wheat flour. A naturally sweetened, butter-free fruit dessert bursting with tart berry flavor.

This cake is moist and tastes fantastic. It is also one of the easiest cakes to make.

Elegant lemon cake roll with a light sponge filled and frosted with creamy lemon filling, then coated in yellow-tinted coconut. A show-stopping spring dessert.

English cheese pie with sieved cottage cheese, cream sherry, rosewater, and currants in a from-scratch butter pastry crust. A fragrant Tudor-era custard dessert.

Filled molasses cookies are old-fashioned sandwich cookies with rolled molasses dough hugging a sweet cooked date filling. A Depression-era cookie jar staple with deep flavor.