Recipe Sifter

Rhubarb meringue pie with a from-scratch shortening crust, tangy rhubarb-orange filling cooked on the stovetop, and a golden vanilla meringue topping. Three layers, all homemade.

Layer cookies with a buttery shortbread base topped with a crisp brown sugar meringue and chopped nuts. The egg yolks go in the bottom layer, the whites become the chewy topping.

Lindy's cheesecake, the legendary New York deli-style recipe with a vanilla bean cookie crust, 2.5 pounds of cream cheese, citrus zest, and a dramatic high-heat bake.

Medieval-style meat cakes with pork shoulder, dates, raisins, pistachios, and saffron baked into a buttery pastry shell. Ancient sweet-savory tart that blends pork with dried fruits and warm spices.

Diabetic-friendly chocolate peanut butter pie with a cooked custard filling using skim evaporated milk and minimal sugar. Thick, creamy, and lower in sugar.

Lele Party Cookies are thumbprint cookies rolled in egg white and chopped nuts, then filled with colorful jelly. A buttery, nutty holiday cookie perfect for Christmas trays.

Classic devil's food cake made with real melted unsweetened chocolate, two sugars, cake flour, and folded egg whites. Dark, moist, and deeply chocolatey from scratch.

Kolachky cream cheese dough, the rich, flaky pastry base for these Eastern European cookies. Just flour, butter, cream cheese and egg, chilled overnight, rolled on sugar and filled with prune, apricot, walnut or poppy seed.

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Blackberry grunt with spiced molasses berries topped with egg-glazed biscuit rounds baked golden brown. An old-fashioned fruit dessert with warm cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

Pan di Spagna, the classic Italian sponge cake with eggs whipped to a ribbon, cake flour and cornstarch folded gently to preserve air. The foundation for tiramisu, zuppa inglese, and fruit-layered tortes.

Deep-dish peach pie with a tangy cream cheese pastry top draped over six cups of fresh peaches, brown sugar, and nutmeg. The cream cheese makes the crust shatteringly tender and golden under the egg wash and sugar.

Pecan tea cookies made with butter, powdered sugar, and nutmeg, topped with a pecan half and egg wash glaze. Dainty, tender bite-sized cookies perfect for tea parties.

Beer-battered fried oysters served in their shells over spinach chiffonade with mango remoulade. A tropical Cajun-Creole appetizer that turns heads at any cocktail party.

Weintraubentorte, a traditional German grape torte with a buttery shortcrust shell and a whipped egg white, almond, and fresh grape filling baked until golden.

Classic French apple tarte Tatin with Granny Smith apples caramelized in a skillet and topped with buttery homemade pastry. A stunning upside-down dessert with deep golden caramel.