Dessert/6 recipes

Four-ingredient homemade crumb crust with flour, butter, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt. Mixes in 5 minutes for a buttery, lightly spiced pie base or streusel topping.

Dense, jewel-toned fruit cake packed with whole dates, walnuts, and candied cherries held together by just enough batter. A showstopper for holiday giving.

Layered white chocolate raspberry cheesecake with chocolate wafer crust and dark chocolate whipped cream topping. Slow-baked low and slow for a silky, crack-free finish.

Buttery shortbread-style cut-out cookies topped with a simple vanilla powdered sugar frosting. Makes 4 dozen soft, melt-in-your-mouth holiday cookies with just 5 dough ingredients.

Buttery lemon tea cake with chopped pecans, soaked in a hot lemon zest and juice sauce while still warm. A tender, citrus-drenched cake with crunchy pockets of toasted nut.

Ultra-tender shortbread cookies with a full pound of unsalted butter, sweetened condensed milk, and cornstarch for a melt-on-your-tongue crumble. Baked low and slow until barely golden.

Buttery Italian-style shortbread cookies made with powdered sugar, vanilla, and three-quarters of a pound of real butter. Chill the dough, roll it out, cut your favorite shapes, and bake until golden.

Classic French apple dumplings wrapped in lemon-scented pastry, filled with a cognac-butter stuffing and baked golden. Serve warm with whipped cream or a pour of Marsala wine.

Lemon filbert logs are buttery shortbread-style cookies shaped into fingers, rolled in chopped hazelnuts, and baked golden. Bright lemon zest and brown sugar give each bite a citrusy, nutty crunch.

Lady Baltimore cake is a tall white layer cake filled with fruit and nuts, then covered in fluffy boiled icing. The genteel Charleston dessert that's been a Southern wedding cake for over a century.

Eggnog cake with rum, orange and nutmeg, layered with eggnog cream filling and chocolate frosting. Festive holiday layer cake for Christmas dessert tables.

Old-fashioned slice-and-bake butterscotch cookies loaded with brown sugar and chopped nuts. Chill the dough in a log, slice into rounds, and bake in just 10 minutes.

Slice-and-bake butterscotch cookies with brown sugar, cinnamon, and a make-ahead frozen dough. Press into loaf pans, freeze, then slice thin and bake whenever the craving hits.

Filled devil dogs are homemade chocolate sandwich cookies with a fluffy cooked-flour cream filling. A nostalgic copycat of the classic Drake's snack cake, soft, cocoa-rich, and bakery-fresh.

Tart rhubarb and sweet strawberries mingle under a golden lattice crust with a nutmeg-kissed custard that sets this classic spring pie apart from all the rest.

Maple glazed pumpkin ring cake with brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, and real maple syrup in both the batter and the sour cream glaze.