Dessert Recipes

Yes, mayonnaise in the cupcakes, and they are the very delicious cupcakes, moist, fluffy and tasty. Don't be scared by adding mayonnaise into your cupcakes, and you will love these delicious cupcakes.

Placentia Women's Round Table friend, Brenda, shared this recipe using sour cherries. Can't wait to try it!!

Classic lemon squares with a buttery shortbread crust topped with a bright, tangy lemon filling and powdered sugar glaze. The bake sale favorite everyone fights over.

Traditional Christmas fruitcake with brandy-soaked candied citrus peel, citron, currants, and raisins, deeply spiced and aged in a tin with periodic brandy basting before the holidays.

Carrot raisin cupcakes with cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar in a tender oil-based batter. A single-bowl muffin-meets-cupcake recipe ready to frost with cream cheese icing.

I have found the best moist buttery raisins cake....

These are the best good and chewy chocolate chips cookies I've ever made.

Granny's boiled fruit cake: an old-fashioned eggless, butterless loaf made by simmering raisins with sugar and shortening, then folding into spiced flour. Plump, moist and Christmas-ready.

Fudgy brownies made with unsweetened German chocolate and real butter, delivering intense cocoa flavor and a dense, moist crumb that stays fresh for days.

Make your own Ben and Jerry's Oreo Mint Ice Cream at home, it tastes delicious and cool you down. Perfect for hot summer days.

Peach schnapps bundt cake spiked with peach schnapps and orange juice, baked in a vanilla cake mix base and brushed warm with a peach preserves and schnapps glaze.

Buttery phyllo layers stuffed with a creamy semolina filling, baked golden and drenched in lemon-kissed syrup. This Turkish-style muhallebili baklava skips the nuts for a silky, custard-like center that melts on your tongue.

Blackberry brandy sour cream pound cake built around dissolved jello, brandy, and a quartet of extracts. A boozy, jewel-toned bundt cake with deep berry flavor and a tender pound-cake crumb.

Beet cake with orange cream cheese frosting uses grated fresh beets for a deeply moist, spiced layer cake with a rosy hue. Topped with toasted walnuts, it's a lighter twist on carrot cake.

Applejack apple slab pie bakes 25 sliced tart apples with cinnamon and butter between a shortening pastry crust in a sheet pan, then drizzles with a sweet cream glaze. Crowd-feeding holiday pie.

Buttery shortbread crust topped with gooey pecan-coconut filling creates bar cookies that taste like pecan pie without the fussy pastry work.