Dessert Recipes

This healthier version of chocolate zucchini rum cake is made with whole wheat flour, grape seed oil, apple sauce, a small amount of butter. Also has much less sugar than the original recipe, and the cake is super moist, packed with chocolate flavor and absolutely divine.

These mini lemon meringue tarts are so cute and handy, and they taste amazingly delicious, buttery shell with lemony filling, topped with fluffy meringue. They are perfect sweet treats at any occasion.

I made mine in mini pie pans and used a cream cheese/sour cream topping slightly sweetened with confectioner's sugar. The filling is excellent.

Gingersnaps are always liked by us, because of the classic tangy flavor. Make your own freshly baked cookies at home, they taste better and fresher.

Rich, fudgy brownies loaded with unsweetened baking chocolate that stay moist even after freezing. Toss in nuts or chocolate chips if you like, then cut, freeze, and serve straight from the freezer for a crowd.

Easy to make, and these cookies are simply delicious!

This very rich cake from the West Indies is ideal for those who prefer not to ice their Christmas cakes.

Robb's Low-Cholesterol Pumpkin Pie with Oil Pastry recipe

Impossible peaches and cream pie that builds its own crust as it bakes. Cinnamon-spiced peaches on the bottom, creamy vanilla custard in the middle, buttery almond streusel on top.

Bisquick pound cake with cream cheese, soaked in orange liqueur syrup and finished with a glossy apricot glaze. A bakery-worthy tube cake from a baking-mix shortcut.

Italian nut ball cookies coated in chopped pistachios with a jelly-filled center. Almond extract and vanilla give these thumbprint cookies classic Italian bakery flavor.

Chocolate hazelnut mascarpone torte layering a coffee-deepened chocolate butter cake with framboise-spiked mascarpone cream, fresh raspberries, and caramelized hazelnuts under a glossy chocolate ganache glaze.

Impossible cheesecake made in a blender with Bisquick, cream cheese, eggs, and milk. No crust to prepare separately. It forms its own base as it bakes, topped with sour cream.

Eggnog layer cake is a tender, nutmeg-scented two-layer cake made with dairy eggnog and topped with cooked-custard eggnog buttercream spiked with rum. A Christmas showpiece cake.

Austrian butter cookies: simple four-ingredient nut shortbread rounds. Roll plain for tea time or sandwich with jam and chocolate frosting for traditional Austrian dessert.

Golden amaranth shortcake made with amaranth flour, whole wheat pastry flour, tahini, and almonds, topped with crushed pineapple and a blended tofu cream. Dairy-free and honey-sweetened.