Dessert Recipes

Cheesecake lovers will simply enjoy this healthier version that doesn't take a lot to make.

Lower-fat ricotta cheesecake with no crust, no cream cheese, and no sour cream. Light and fluffy with lemon zest and vanilla, topped with fresh strawberries.

Lemon angel food cake baked from scratch and hollowed out to hold a lemon whipped cream filling set with gelatin. Light, airy, and bright with citrus.

Macadamia chiffon pie folds rum-spiked custard, beaten egg whites, and chopped macadamias into a feather-light filling, set with gelatin and topped with rum whipped cream. A retro showpiece pie.

Macadamia mandelbrot with orange juice, orange zest, and almond extract, twice-baked into crisp, crunchy cookies. A tropical twist on the classic Jewish biscotti.

Magnificent chocolate cake baked in a 10-inch tube pan with six ounces of unsweetened chocolate, six eggs, and chopped nuts. A tall, tender, old-fashioned bundt-style cake.

Maple cream cake: a tender brown sugar and maple syrup cake topped with a fluffy maple buttercream made with egg white. Pure Canadian sugar shack flavor.

These are better then the average peanut butter cookie and really do melt in your mouth!

Market mystery cookies with just five ingredients: butter, dark brown sugar, oats, egg, and vanilla. Cooked in a double boiler, then baked into tiny, crisp, toffee-like wafers.

Butter-almond cookies shaped and colored into tiny fruit miniatures like strawberries, bananas, pears, and oranges. A showstopper holiday cookie project using simple dough with food coloring and clever shaping techniques.

Milk chocolate biscotti packed with toasted whole almonds and cocoa-darkened dough. Crisp, twice-baked Italian cookies ready for dunking in coffee or espresso.

Mini blackbottom cupcakes with a fudgy chocolate cake base topped with a sweet cream cheese and chocolate chip filling, cooked in the microwave using paper egg cartons as molds. A vintage retro treat that's quick and fun.

Mini cheesecakes baked in muffin cups with a graham cracker crust, sour cream topping, and golden lemon sauce. Perfectly portioned individual desserts for parties and potlucks.

Mini chip cheesecake cookies layer a chocolate graham cracker crust under cream cheese filling spiked with melted chocolate chips. Each two-bite cup bakes in a mini muffin tin. Bite-sized cheesecakes built for parties.

Mississippi mud cake loaded with cocoa, butter, and pecans under a thick chocolate buttercream icing. Dense, fudgy, and unapologetically Southern.

Mocha fudge pie with a brownie mix crust, Kahlua-spiked chocolate pudding filling, and a coffee whipped topping layer. Three layers of chocolate-coffee flavor on a fudgy base.