Dessert Recipes

Eggless cocoa cake made with no butter, milk, or eggs. A depression-era style chocolate cake using vinegar and baking soda for lift, baked in a tube pan. Naturally vegan.

Cocoa drop cookies made with cream cheese for an extra-soft, tender crumb. A simple chocolate cookie with just 8 ingredients that comes together in minutes.

This creamy and smooth cocoa orange mousse pie satisfies your palate without giving you too many calories by using nonfat ricotta cheese and whipped topping.

Low-fat cocoa spice cake made with applesauce instead of oil, egg whites only, and a hint of cinnamon. A lighter chocolate cake that still bakes up moist and satisfying.

Four-layer coconut sour cream cake with a fluffy whipped topping filling and shredded coconut all around. Make-ahead Southern dessert that gets better as it sits.

No-bake coconut mocha drops with toasted coconut, instant coffee, and powdered sugar microwaved into rich little candies. Five-ingredient bite-sized treats ready in 25 minutes.

Coconut pecan pie with a buttery egg custard filling, flaked coconut, and chopped pecans baked in a flaky crust. A Southern-style pie with a lemon-vanilla twist and golden, chewy top.

Pecan shortbread cookies shaped into little ovals and rolled in powdered sugar. Only 4 ingredients, no eggs, mixed by hand, and they melt in your mouth. A Mexican wedding cookie cousin that makes 4 dozen.

Cookie brittle with chocolate chips and walnuts pressed into one pan, baked, then snapped into snappy shards. Sugar-substitute friendly with crisp, candy-like edges.

Fudgy cocoa brownies piled high with marshmallows, peanut butter chips, and crushed cookies, then topped with a thick chocolate peanut icing. A bake sale showstopper.

Four-ingredient cookie crust with butter, flour, and sugar pressed into a sheet pan. Golden, buttery base for bars, cheesecakes, and dessert squares.

Cracker pecan pie with a meringue-like base of stiff egg whites, crushed crackers, and sugar topped with pecans and broiled milk chocolate. A crustless, no-flour dessert.

Cranapple snack bars with fresh cranberries, sliced apples, walnuts, and silken tofu in a honey-sweetened cinnamon batter. A naturally sweetened fruit bar with no refined sugar.

Old-fashioned cranberry banana pie with a lattice crust. Sliced bananas layered under homemade cranberry sauce, baked until golden. Just three filling ingredients for a stunning vintage dessert.

Cranberry star mold: a retro raspberry gelatin dessert folded with whipped cream, pineapple, and orange sections, chilled in a star mold. A classic holiday side or light dessert.

Cranberry-orange bars with whole wheat flour, ground whole orange, and raisins. Low in added sugar and diabetic-friendly with a tart, fruity bite in every bar.