Recipe Sifter

Light yet delicious chocolate raspberry roll cake. The creamy and fruity filling is made with skim ricotta cheese and fresh raspberries, the cake is made with flour, cocoa powder and egg substitute. It's much lighter than a classic roll cake, but without losing any flavor.

Buttermilk pecan pie with a creamy custard filling baked low and slow until golden on top. No corn syrup needed. A Southern classic with tangy, nutty richness.

Crispy caramel biscuits with coconut, corn flakes, and sweetened condensed milk. Buttery drop cookies that bake in 15 minutes and make 3 dozen from one batch.

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Southern fig preserve cake baked in a tube pan with warm spices, buttermilk, chopped pecans, and a generous swirl of fig jam, finished with a buttermilk glaze.

Oatmeal raisin sheet cake spiked with cinnamon, cloves, and plumped raisins, baked thin on a sheet pan and finished with a quick poured icing. The bake-sale and potluck cake that feeds a crowd of 24.

Low-fat carrot fig cake that replaces oil and butter with pureed dried figs for moisture. Loaded with grated carrots, crushed pineapple, and raisins, drizzled with a simple pineapple juice glaze.

Low-calorie applesauce raisin squares with whole wheat flour, natural bran, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg, topped with sliced almonds. Just 61 calories per square.

Cinnamon-apple cheesecake with a shortbread crust, creamy filling, overlapping apple slices on top, and a warm orange marmalade glaze. A fall cheesecake that's more fruit tart than dense New York style.

Mincemeat sundae pie blends fruit mincemeat into vanilla ice cream, packs it into a vanilla wafer-pecan crust, and finishes each slice with warm homemade caramel sauce. A festive frozen twist on a Christmas classic.

Classic German Lebkuchen: spiced honey bars with almonds and candied citrus peel, glazed with lemon icing and dotted with cherries. Centuries-old Nuremberg Christmas tradition.

German chocolate pound cake with a dense, buttery crumb made from cake flour, buttermilk, and melted German sweet chocolate. Baked low and slow in a tube pan for a tender, fine-textured slice.

Banana chocolate marble cake swirls melted semi-sweet chocolate into a moist sour cream banana batter, finished with a glossy orange-scented chocolate ganache.

Lemon chiffon pie with a lemon-zest shortbread crust, cloud-light gelatin-set citrus filling, and a topping of fresh whipped cream. Bright, fluffy, refreshing.

Low-fat barley kugel studded with cinnamon apples and plump raisins. This lighter twist on a Jewish comfort classic swaps butter for yogurt yet still delivers that creamy, custardy bite.

Monster cookies loaded with peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, M&M's, raisins and nuts. Flourless, chewy, and built for a crowd.