Dessert Recipes

Fruit pizza with a sugar cookie crust, vanilla cream cheese sauce, fresh fruit topping, and a shiny orange juice glaze. A colorful party dessert that slices like pizza.

Peppernuts cookies with ground raisins, coconut, and nuts in a brown sugar-buttermilk dough, rolled into ropes and cut into bite-sized pieces. A Mennonite holiday tradition.

Barley and cranberry dessert cooked in cranberry juice with raisins, cinnamon, lemon zest, and honey. A naturally sweet, whole grain treat served warm or cold with almost no fat.

Bob's vinegar pie crust holds up to two weeks in the fridge or freezes for months. One large batch yields four single 9-inch shells. The egg and splash of vinegar deliver a tender, flaky crust every time.

Four-ingredient low-calorie cookies made with banana, oats, peanut butter, and baking powder. No flour, no sugar, no eggs, no butter. Just mash, mix, and bake.

Mint Surprise Cookies hide a melty chocolate mint wafer inside soft brown-sugar dough, each one crowned with a toasted walnut. Chill the dough so it seals the surprise neatly before baking.

Lincoln log cookies shaped from cocoa-chocolate chip dough into two-inch logs, then drizzled with white and chocolate icing stripes. A fun, chocolatey bake for kids and adults.

Apple cheddar wontons deep fried until golden and coated in cinnamon brown sugar. Sharp cheddar melts into sweet apple inside a crispy wonton shell for an addictive snack.

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.

Make-ahead slice and bake sugar cookies with lemon extract. Shape the dough into logs, freeze for up to 6 months, and bake fresh cookies in 10 minutes whenever the craving hits.

Almond krumkake: paper-thin Norwegian wafers pressed on a krumkake iron, rolled into delicate cones while warm, then filled with whipped cream or jam. The Scandinavian holiday cookie classic.

Puffy sour cream drop cookies topped with cinnamon sugar before baking. Soft, cakey, and lightly golden around the edges. Simple pantry ingredients, 30 minutes start to finish. Makes 18.

Brownie and cookies, you can eat both of them at the same time, moist, crunchy and delicious!

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.

Fudgy brownie flavor meets chewy cookie texture in these chocolate-studded treats loaded with toasted pecans. The secret? Cocoa powder and chocolate chips team up for double-chocolate intensity.

No-bake chocolate drops with cocoa, coconut, and rolled oats set in the fridge. Five ingredients and no oven needed for these fudgy, chewy candy cookies.