Baked Good Recipes

Espresso-hazelnut shortbread cookies with real coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, and cold butter baked low and slow. Sandy, crumbly, and deeply aromatic with a bold coffee bite.

Junior's cheesecake delivers the iconic Brooklyn-style dense, tangy cream cheese cake with a graham crumb base and golden brown top. Cornstarch keeps the crumb tight, vanilla and heavy cream lift it silky.

Almond fortune cookies are crisp homemade Chinese-American cookies with almond extract, hand-folded around paper fortunes while still warm. Bake one sheet at a time for fresh, customized messages.

Impressive apple pie with cinnamon crust, sour cream filling, and crunchy walnut-brown sugar topping. Three distinct layers of flavor and texture.

Flaky puff pastry tarts filled with flambéed Calvados apples and caramel sauce, crowned with puff pastry cutouts and served warm with caramel ice cream.

German yeast cake with rows of sliced apples topped with buttery streusel and slivered almonds for a not-too-sweet coffee cake perfect for brunch or afternoon tea.

A spiced sheet cake packed with grated carrots, mashed bananas, toasted coconut, and pecans. Warm cloves and mace set it apart from ordinary carrot cake. Cuts into 24 squares and freezes well.

Aniseed biscotti from Genoa, twice-baked into long, crisp logs scented with whole anise seed. A yeast-raised dough makes them lighter and more bread-like than the typical Tuscan biscotti, ideal for dunking in coffee or sweet wine.

A showstopper Boston cream pie with four layers of airy genoise, white chocolate pastry cream between each layer, a glossy dark chocolate ganache coating, and fresh raspberries on top. Patisserie-level dessert.

Butterscotch chocolate chunk cookies: chewy brown-sugar cookies loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chunks. The butterscotch flavor comes from both light and dark brown sugar, no chips required.

Homemade chocolate almond caramels infused with coffee-steeped cream. Chewy, rich, and studded with toasted almonds. Wrapped individually, they make a stunning handmade gift.

Buttery chocolate shortbread with cocoa, melted unsweetened chocolate, and chopped walnuts baked low and slow into crisp, snappy wedges with a sugar-sprinkled top.

Double chocolate biscotti with wine-plumped dried cherries, melted bittersweet chocolate, and cocoa powder. Crisp, dunkable cookies that stay fresh for a month.

Buttery slice-and-bake cookies studded with chopped almonds or hazelnuts, then dipped in melted chocolate. Crisp, nutty, and elegant enough for a holiday cookie box.

Cranberry-raspberry meringue pie with a tart juice concentrate filling, buttery egg yolk custard, and golden toasted meringue. A vibrant twist on classic meringue pie.

Devil's food cake bakes a deep cocoa layer cake with a separated-egg method for extra lift, then tops it with classic boiled chocolate fudge frosting. A tall, old-fashioned chocolate showstopper.