Dessert Recipes

The great Apple Crisp I grew up on! Maybe this is one of the reasons I had by-pass surgery!

Pig Lickin' Cake: a classic Southern layer cake made with yellow cake mix and mandarin oranges, frosted with whipped topping, vanilla pudding, and crushed pineapple. Retro potluck royalty.

Filled Poppy Seed Cake with Butter Cream Topping recipe

Pig cake is the Southern potluck classic: a moist mandarin-orange cake topped with a fluffy pineapple, vanilla pudding, and whipped topping frosting. Light, fruity, and made with a cake-mix shortcut. Keeps cool in the fridge.

No-roll apple pie with a press-in-pan oil crust and a sweet streusel top. Cinnamon and ginger spice six cups of sliced apples for a beginner-friendly pie that skips the rolling pin entirely.

Apple cake with a cinnamon-nut streusel topping, chopped apples folded into a brown sugar batter with sour milk. A tender, spiced sheet cake for fall baking.

A three-layer cake with two rich cocoa layers and one maple-walnut layer, all covered in homemade chocolate fudge frosting. Vermont cocoa cake is a New England showstopper.

Pears Helene is a classic French dessert of poached pear halves served with hot chocolate sauce and optional vanilla ice cream and chopped almonds. Elegant, timeless, and surprisingly simple to make at home.

A rich sour cream chocolate cake with a cocoa fudge filling marbled through the batter, creating "craters" as it bakes. Topped with chopped nuts and a dusting of powdered sugar. One pan, zero fuss.

Soft, buttery, creamy and sweet cookies that are popular all the time at our St. Patrick's Day!

Two-layer apricot bars with a buttery shortbread base and a chewy brown sugar-apricot-nut topping, rolled in powdered sugar. Makes 75 bite-sized bars from one pan.

Traditional Jewish taiglach: little dough knots studded with raisins and nuts, boiled in honey syrup with ginger until golden and sticky. A Rosh Hashanah and holiday essential.

Surprise your relatives at your next family gathering with this rich and delicious cake that will have everyone wanting a second slice!

Top and bottom layers are brownies, the middle layer is made with raspberry jam and cream cheese. Make this delicious raspberry cream brownies for your Valentine's Day.

This simply delicious apple cake is made with 100% whole wheat flour, apple sauce and olive oil. It has much less sugar than a regular cake, but still well satisfies your sweet tooth. The caramel drizzling and toasted walnuts add more shine to the cake. Nobody could resist it!

Fresh peaches fill into an almond and flour crust, the sweetness, slightly sourness, and refreshing taste from the peaches go very well with the nutty crusty. It's a light, fruity and delicious dessert that fits a hot summer day wonderfully!