Mincemeat cookie recipes

Unlike New York style cheesecake, this cheese pie is much lighter and much lower fat; but it is still creamy, smooth and tasty, sour cream gives the extra zing, and the lemon zest brings the refreshing flavor.

The cookies will keep, their flavor improving, for at least a week.

Black Pepper Biscotti recipe

Chocolate Cheesecake recipe

Double Decker Brownies Using Basic Cookie Mix recipe

The colors the fruits used in the cookies suggest those of the robes worn by the four ordres mendiants, monastic orders that originally lived on charity -- the Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans and Franciscans.

Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie with Caramel Sauce recipe