Dessert Recipes

The famous Tom Cruise Cake: a German chocolate poke cake soaked in condensed milk and butterscotch, piled with whipped cream and crushed Heath bars. Outrageously rich, dead simple, and worth every sticky, toffee-laced bite.

Pumpkin, cognac, cream cheese, sour cream and spices make this cheesecake creamy, smooth, rich and delicious. The toasted almonds adds extra nuttiness, and it also gives the cheesecake a beautiful coating on the outer edge. This is the kind of cheesecake that everyone gives a big "WOW".

Strawberry Newtons recipe (can use strawberries or figs)

Classic jam filled cookies perfect for Christmas. Fillings can range from various jams to hazelnut spreads only limited by your imagination.

Jeanne's cake stacks a tender vanilla cake on a crisp shortbread base, all wrapped in silky old-fashioned ermine frosting, the cooked-flour kind that's fluffy and far less sweet than buttercream.

Make this delicious and mouth-watering mounds cake for your family or pot-luck, nobody can resist this candy-like mounds cake .

Came up with this delicious key lime slice recipe while in Key Largo, Florida. Similar to the Aussie Lemon slice but with a twist of the keys.

Classic double-crust apple pie with Golden Delicious apples tossed in cinnamon, nutmeg and just enough flour to thicken the juices. Dot with butter, vent the top crust, and bake until the filling bubbles up through the slits.

A tall, creamy New York cheesecake on a buttery graham cracker crust, topped with a glossy homemade strawberry glaze. Dense, rich, tangy, and everything a real NY-style cheesecake should be.

Lemon oatmeal cookies bright with lemon juice, zest, and extract, made lighter with oil and egg whites and given extra crunch from crisp rice cereal. A crisp, citrusy twist on the classic oatmeal cookie.

This old classic has been modernized and scaled down. The biscuit dough absorbs the liquid from the warm soft apples. In an 1888 article on apple dumplings it is said that King George III (1738-1820) had been "sadly puzzled" wondering how the apple came to be inside the dumpling.

Instead of a rich butter cookies, make some macaroon made of egg whites, coconut, pecans and chocolate. They are so chocolaty and delicious, a little bit crunchy at the inside and slightly chewy on the outside. Perfect sweet treats at holidays.

This delicious chocolate ice cream is low fat and low calorie, easy to make, much better for health.

Impossible pecan pie makes its own crust as it bakes, using Bisquick to form a thin layer underneath the pecan-corn syrup custard. No rolling, no chilling, just dump and bake.

I made this because it sounded soooo good! It was delicious. And those in my family that tried it really liked it too!

These pineapple muffins are very moist, mixing pineapples into the flour, also place the pineapple wedges at the bottom of the muffin pans, they can be breakfast, snack or a dessert.