Dessert Recipes

Double chocolate drop cookies with melted unsweetened chocolate in the batter, semi-sweet chips throughout, and a from-scratch chocolate frosting on top.

Fudge brownie pie baked crustless in a pie pan with unsweetened chocolate, butter, and pecans. Dense, fudgy, and rich with just six main ingredients.

Lemon roll-out cookies with sour cream, lemon zest and lemon extract, brushed with fresh lemon juice before baking. Tender citrus shortbread for tea trays and gift tins.

Tender drop cookies with slivered almonds and almond extract, baked at low temperature until lightly golden. Classic sandies that melt in your mouth.

Peanut butter oatmeal cookies with rolled oats and your choice of chocolate chips or chopped peanuts. Chewy centers, crisp edges, and a 5-dozen yield from one batch.

Easy sour cream apple cake with a buttery coconut crust made from yellow cake mix. Cinnamon-dusted apple slices get a tangy sour cream drizzle and bake up golden in under an hour. Serve warm.

Sundae brownie pie bakes a fudgy brownie batter loaded with chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and nuts right into a pie crust. Served warm with ice cream, it's a scoopable sundae in pie form.

Santa Claus cookies decorate flat sugar cookies with red sugar caps, miniature marshmallow tassels, currant eyes, cinnamon candy noses, and coconut beards. A festive holiday craft cookie kids can help build from baked rounds.

Rough puff pastry is the home cook's shortcut to puff pastry, made by folding walnut-sized chunks of cold fat through a soft dough four to five times. Flaky enough for tart shells, vol-au-vents, and turnovers.

Panforte is the dense, chewy Sienese Christmas cake packed with toasted hazelnuts and almonds, dates, cherries, cocoa, and warm spices, bound by hot honey caramel. A traditional Italian holiday confection.

Chewy, buttery oatmeal raisin cookies loaded with cinnamon and brown sugar that vanish from the cookie jar before they cool. Quick 25-minute recipe the whole family will fight over.

Mocha cheesecake with a chocolate wafer crust, cocoa-cream cheese filling, and instant coffee for real coffeehouse depth. Rich, dense, and built on the classic cheesecake frame.

Jam Jams are old-fashioned sandwich cookies made with brown sugar and corn syrup, rolled and cut, then filled with apple butter or raspberry jam.

Pumpkin Poundcake with Brown-Sugar-Walnut Glaze recipe

Oatmeal chocolate chip sheet cake with a boiling-water oat soak for a tender, moist crumb. Topped with walnuts and extra chips for a crackly crust.

Hello Dollys (magic cookie bars) layered with vanilla wafer crumbs, chocolate chips, coconut, pecans, and sweetened condensed milk. No mixing needed, just layer and bake for a gooey, chewy bar.