Sweet Recipes

Spiced Zucchini Cookies with Raisin and Nuts recipe

Orange-spiced oatmeal raisin cookies with overnight orange-juice-soaked raisins, orange zest, and rolled oats. Plump, chewy, and citrus-bright.

Apple butter cookies are soft, spiced drop cookies sweetened with brown sugar and apple butter, studded with raisins and chopped nuts. Freezer-friendly for months and ready in under an hour.

Banana surprise cookies are soft chewy oatmeal cookies with mashed bananas, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and your choice of walnuts or chocolate chips. A 30-minute drop cookie.

Christmas sugar cookies are buttery rolled cut-out cookies for decorating. Crisp edges, tender centers. Big-batch dough yields four dozen festive shapes for the holidays.

A delicately thin, not too sweet, yummy spicy cookie.

Wholesome oat cookies sweetened with honey and studded with fresh apples. Soft, cake-like texture with optional raisins. Naturally lower in refined sugar.

This crisp is quick and easy to make, and the blackberries can be substituted with other berries. Our favorite dish in fall and winter.

Got his recipe in an email. From the Harvest restaurant, Cambridge, MA

One of my favorites. These are the cookies I make when I am trying to impress someone or cheer a person up. Though they are made with milk chocolate they are not too sweet. The edges are airy and crunchy and the center is soft and chewy.

Made popular back in the 1960's by a bakery in Brooklyn. Chocoholics of all ages love this rich chocolate layer cake that uses a thick pudding instead of icing.

Favorite peanut butter cookies with crushed Rice Chex folded into the dough for unexpected crunch in every bite. The classic crisscross fork-mark cookie with a textural twist.

Instead of store-bought pie crust, we made our own with most whole wheat flour and olive oil, which made the crust a lot healthier with flaky texture and delicious flavor. Now enjoy this juicy-fruity pie without feeling guilty at all.

Honey sour cream anise cookies bake into pillowy, soft drop cookies with brown sugar, honey, tangy sour cream, and aromatic aniseed. A licorice-scented old-country cookie for big batches.

Brown sugar pound cake with a deep caramel note and a toasted-pecan frosting that drips down the sides. A dense, buttery tube cake from TV weatherman Willard Scott's kitchen.

Traditional Scottish shortbread with all-purpose and rice flours, butter, and a mix of white and brown sugars. Buttery, sandy-textured cookie scored into wedges and baked golden.