Recipe Sifter

Buttermilk cinnamon coffee cake with a brown sugar-cinnamon swirl, made with a blend of white and whole wheat flour. Tender, lightly spiced, and not overly sweet.

Light, airy angel food cake drizzled with a buttery cinnamon-apple glaze. Made from scratch with egg whites, cake flour, and a hint of almond extract.

A silky baked custard infused with orange zest, cinnamon, and cloves, set over golden homemade caramel with slivers of candied orange peel. Low-fat, elegant, and worth the overnight chill.

Classic pound cake made with powdered sugar, margarine, eggs, flour and a hint of lemon. Dense, buttery and finished with a dusting of powdered sugar. Baked low and slow in a tube pan.

Cream cheese shortbread cookies crowned with a fresh strawberry half. Buttery, tender rounds with a jammy ruby center that bakes right into the dough. Pretty enough for tea, easy enough for a weeknight.

Classic strawberry cheesecake bakes a crustless cream cheese filling sweetened with pourable strawberry fruit, then crowns it with a sour cream layer and fresh berries. A creamy New York-style classic.

Coca-Cola Cake with Hot Fudge Icing and Nuts recipe

A cocoa cheesecake on a toasted coconut-pecan crust, crowned with a marshmallow meringue topping baked until golden. Three layers of texture and flavor in every slice.

Thin, crispy slice-and-bake cookies with shredded coconut and walnuts. A refrigerator cookie dough you roll, chill, and slice into wafer-thin rounds that bake up snappy in 10 minutes. Makes 48.

No-bake chocolate haystacks with coconut, dried apricots, oats, and chopped nuts. A stovetop candy that boils for 30 seconds, drops onto wax paper, and sets as it cools.

Four-layer coconut cake with coconut filling spread between each layer. A classic Southern layer cake made with shortening for a tender, fine crumb.

A sweet, sipping chocolate, perfect on a cold winter day. I use 85% chocolate. The amount of sugar can be decreased, or the chocolate can be increased for a richer chocolate flavor.

Cranapple cake baked in a tube pan with cranberries, shredded apple, and applesauce for moisture. A lower-fat fall cake with a vanilla confectioners sugar drizzle.

This co-winner in the filled-cookie category from Gerry Cofta of Milwaukee has a great, rich flavor in the filling.

Cream cheese marbled brownies with chopped nuts. A sweet chocolate batter swirled with tangy cheesecake filling, topped with more brownie batter, and zigzagged into marble. Old-fashioned bakery classic.

Simple sweetened whipped cream filling with just three ingredients: heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla. Whip until stiff in 5 minutes for cakes, pastries, and pies.