Dessert Recipes

A rich chocolate coconut layer cake made from scratch with unsweetened baking chocolate, brown sugar, and light cream, topped with a pink cinnamon candy boiled frosting. Retro baking with serious wow factor.

Cola Cake with Broiled Peanut Butter Frosting recipe

Old-fashioned Christmas fruit cake with boiled raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. No eggs or butter needed, just cold water and shortening for a dense, spiced holiday cake.

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.

Fresh raspberry pie with chopped mint, baked in a double crust until golden and bubbling. Unexpected herb twist on classic fruit pie.

Classic French apple dumplings wrapped in lemon-scented pastry, filled with a cognac-butter stuffing and baked golden. Serve warm with whipped cream or a pour of Marsala wine.

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.

Crazy cake mixed right in the baking pan with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Cocoa, vinegar, and oil create a surprisingly moist chocolate cake from Depression-era ingenuity.

Cream cheese swirl brownies with a fudgy chocolate base marbled with tangy cheesecake filling. Made from scratch with real chocolate melted in a double boiler and crunchy pecans.

Chocolate cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, made with chocolate sweetened condensed milk for a silky, no-fuss filling. Six ingredients, one bowl, deeply chocolatey.

Creamy toasted cashew nuts and coconut fills into a chocolate crust, and it is rich, creamy, chocolaty and so delicious.