Dessert/7 recipes

Baked apples stuffed with oats and brown sugar, dusted in cinnamon, and baked in a splash of grape juice until tender and bubbling. A cozy fall dessert with no butter and a warm, spiced finish.

Buttery Swedish Melting Moments cookies with almond and orange extract literally dissolve on your tongue. Six ingredients, one hour chill, and you've got 2 dozen tender, crumbly Scandinavian treats.

A stunning three-tiered champagne cake soaked in bubbly and frosted with champagne buttercream. Built from two pans and cut into graduated layers, this is the centerpiece for weddings, New Year's, and any excuse to celebrate.

Caramel apple cheesecake bars stacked four layers deep: a brown sugar shortbread crust, creamy cheesecake, spiced cinnamon-nutmeg apples, and an oat streusel, all finished with a caramel drizzle. Fall in a pan.

A flourless European-style torte made with chestnuts, almonds, and dark rum, filled with chocolate whipped cream, then glazed with apricot preserves and chocolate icing.

Rich chocolate cake: single 8-inch buttermilk cocoa layer cake finished with bittersweet chocolate glaze. Can be split for a filled two-layer version.

Soft pumpkin walnut cookies topped with maple frosting. Made with real pumpkin puree, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and crunchy walnuts for a cakey fall cookie.

Easy chocolate almond pie with melted milk chocolate almond bars, marshmallows, and whipped cream in a pie shell. A no-bake silky filling that sets overnight for a rich, mousse-like dessert.

Scottish shortbread fingers with the secret cornstarch swap for an ultra-tender, melt-in-the-mouth crumb. A four-ingredient traditional biscuit from Edinburgh tea-room tradition.

Do It Yourself Devil’S Food Cake Mix recipe

These sugar-free pudding cookies are easy to make, and no worries about sugar.

Godiva chocolate tiramisu with espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cream, and grated dark chocolate. A boozy, no-bake Italian dessert that chills overnight.

British style chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.

Anytime cake doctors up boxed chocolate cake mix with mashed banana and rum extract for a moist, lower-sugar loaf. Ready in 20 minutes start to finish, no eggs or oil needed.

his is a concentrated, liquid coffee easily found in Ireland, but probably not in the States. I would dissolve 2 T of a good instant coffee in an equivalent amount of water, and use that.

Make sure to sit by the fireplace when enjoying this decadent cake that goes great with a cup hot chocolate.