Dessert Recipes

Eugenie's baklava layers crisp, buttery phyllo with a spiced walnut filling and soaks it in a honey-lemon syrup, complete with a cook's secret for shatteringly crisp, never-soggy layers. A Mediterranean classic.

Fresh strawberry muffins with sliced berries, buttermilk, and cinnamon, lightened with egg whites and substitute. A summer brunch muffin with sugar-crusted tops, makes 18.

Three-layer German chocolate cake with coconut-pecan frosting, rich cocoa layers, and drizzled chocolate topping. Classic American dessert for birthdays and celebrations.

Southern-style peach cobbler with brown sugar, cinnamon, and lemon-kissed peaches under a tender drop biscuit topping. Half whole wheat flour gives the crust nutty depth.

This year I switched CSAs, to one that was a bit more fruit-heavy (so I thought). It turns out, this CSA share is 75% fruit, leaving me with a whole heck of a lot of peaches. I had saved this recipe for Oven Roasted Peaches from Real Fit Mama, but it turns out that I totally bungled my grocery list, and didn’t have most of the ingredients.

I tried this pumpkin pie last week, it turned out delicious. At Thanksgiving I will make this pumpkin pie for my family, I bet they will love it.

This beautiful and romantic cake is perfect for Valentine's Day! The recipe is also easy to turn into a cake for any occasion, Flag Day, birthdays you name it. Decorate it accordingly.

Chewy Rich Carob Brownies Are Delicious!! Easy To Make!!

My two favorites were dark chocolate drizzled with white chocolate and white chocolate with crushed candy cane. These make great hostess gifts or gifts for neighbors or coworkers.

Apple date strudel rolls a homemade dough around toasted Zwieback crumbs, sliced apples, dates, walnuts, and cinnamon-sugar, then bakes into a buttery horseshoe-shaped German pastry.

These cookies have been popular at our home over years, we bake them all the time, and always turn out great!

Love anything with peanut butter! These pretty looking peanut butter blossoms were also delicious, they were just melting in my mouth.

Six-ingredient pumpkin bundt cake from yellow cake mix, eggs, oil, pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and nuts. The shortcut autumn bake for potlucks and last-minute hospitality.

Miniature pecan pies bake up in 17 minutes for a one-bite holiday treat. Dark corn syrup filling, chopped pecans, and an egg-white-sealed tart shell keep the bottoms crisp. Sixteen tarts per batch.

Chocolate brownies spiked with amaretto in both the batter and the chocolate frosting, finished with sliced almonds. A grown-up brownie with deep almond and unsweetened chocolate notes.

Bailey's marbled cheesecake on a chocolate graham crust with Irish cream in the batter and a swirled chocolate ribbon. Boozy, silky, and dressed up for the holidays.