Dessert/6 recipes

Petite cheesecakes baked in mini muffin tins with a vanilla wafer base and cherry pie filling on top. Bite-sized, freezer-friendly, and perfect for parties and potlucks.

Traditional German Pfeffernusse cookies with five warm spices, candied citron, and lemon. Tiny spiced rounds that dry overnight and ripen for days before eating.

Bread pudding loaded with pecans, raisins, and chopped apple, baked in a spiced custard and drowned in a rich bourbon butter sauce. A classic New Orleans-style dessert.

Jan's 1940s apple pie heaped with McIntosh and Cortland apples, finished with a quick water-rinse trick on the top crust that produces an exceptionally flaky finish.

Classic chocolate cream pie with a deep two-chocolate filling spiked with rum and vanilla, topped with rum-laced whipped cream and grated chocolate. A make-ahead diner classic.

No-bake cheesecake with cream cheese, sour cream, and whipped topping folded into graham crust: 8 minutes of mixing, 4 hours of chilling, topped with fresh strawberries.

A dead-simple chocolate cheesecake pie with a secret weapon: mayonnaise for ultra-creamy richness. Melted chocolate chips, cream cheese, and a chocolate crumb crust. Five minutes to prep.

Mint cheesecake squares on a chocolate wafer crust topped with sour cream chocolate ganache. Cool, creamy, and loaded with creme de menthe flavor.

Baked Indian pudding with molasses is the colonial New England dessert at its purest: scalded milk, cornmeal, dark molasses, and warm spices baked low for 2 hours into a quivering, deeply spiced custard. Serve with cream.

Fairy cookies made with both powdered and granulated sugar, margarine, and oil for a melt-in-your-mouth texture. A big batch sugar cookie recipe that bakes up light, tender, and crisp.

Rich cocoa-swirled cheesecake meets gooey coconut pecan frosting in this German chocolate cake hybrid. Crisp chocolate cookie crust, velvety filling, and sticky caramel topping loaded with toasted nuts.

Spiced apple cake with warm cinnamon and nutmeg, crowned with a silky rum sauce made in a double boiler. Bake ahead and reheat for easy entertaining with make-ahead convenience.

Two egg cake is a versatile vanilla cake made with just two eggs, cake flour, and shortening. Bake it as a loaf, layer cake, or cupcakes and frost however you like.

Chocolate heart sandwich cookies with almond extract, pink buttercream frosting, and a peek-through cutout center. A Valentine's Day baking project with show-stopping results.

Rich chocolate spritz cookies pressed through a cookie press into festive shapes. Unsweetened chocolate and shortening create crisp edges with tender centers in just 10 minutes.

This is a tasty no bake take on pumpkin pie that's fluffy and creamy like a mousse.