Dessert Recipes

Cream cheese chocolate chip cookie bars made from two rolls of refrigerated cookie dough sandwiching a vanilla cream cheese filling. A bakery-counter dessert from supermarket shortcuts in 15 minutes of prep.

Godiva white chocolate cheesecake with mascarpone, cream cheese, espresso, and chocolate liqueur baked in a water bath. A crustless, silky-smooth cheesecake garnished with fresh raspberries.

This very old recipe is famous for the artistic, decorative sculpture arranged on top. The picture in the cookbook has the upper outer edge circled with a braid of dough and cut-outs of ducks arranged flat on the top.

Roly-poly peach cobbler: juicy peaches under a biscuit topping rolled jelly-roll style with cinnamon sugar, then sliced into pinwheels. A Southern-style cobbler that looks as good as it tastes.

Humdingers are no-bake date balls cooked stovetop with eggs, butter, and sugar, then folded with crispy rice cereal and rolled in coconut. A vintage Southern Christmas treat.

Crunchy Golden Grahams cereal coated in melted chocolate and peanut butter, tossed with pecans and golden raisins, then dusted in powdered sugar. A no-bake snack mix that vanishes at every holiday party.

Cherry dream squares with an oat-and-cake-mix crust, cherry pie filling center, and a brown sugar crumb topping with nuts. A semi-homemade bar cookie that's part crumble, part pie.

Herman coffee cake bakes a 10-day fed sourdough-style starter into a tender cinnamon-raisin coffee cake. The classic friendship cake passed jar-by-jar between neighbors.

Satisfy your kids sweet tooth with these scrumptious snacks made with coconut.

Creamy cheesecake made without any cheese using condensed milk, eggs, lemon, and a buttery zwieback crust. Light, tangy, and set with a slow cool in the oven for silky texture.

Almond Roca bars layer a buttery shortbread base under melted Hershey chocolate and chopped almonds. The classic potluck cookie that mimics the famous toffee candy in cookie-bar form.

Intensely chocolatey bundt cake using boxed mix, instant pudding, and chocolate chips. Rich, moist crumb ready in an hour with chocolate glaze drizzle.

Coffee cake that has coffee in the cake and in the glaze! Of course you can always enjoy a slice with a cup of coffee. Perfect as a morning or afternoon pick me up.

These lamb face cupcakes are too cute, and also they are so easy to make, the tender cupcakes are coated with the vanilla frosting and marshmallows, great cupcakes for your Easter!

A moist, lightly spiced snack cake. I have made this using butter or shortening, and both work fine. The butter method is a bit richer in flavor, though.

These Easter Bunny Face Cupcakes are so cute, and cakes are so moist, coated with vanilla frosting and coconut flakes, enjoy these pretty bunny face cupcakes!