Dessert recipes

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.

Chocolate chip cream cheese brownies layered with a sour cream chocolate batter, a sweetened cream cheese ribbon, and a top scattering of chips. Fudgy, tangy, three textures in every bite.

Peppermint pinwheel cookies with mint extract, rolled into red and white (or green) spirals and sliced. A festive holiday cookie that's all about the swirl.

Southern chocolate chess pie: a one-bowl classic with butter, cocoa, sugar, eggs, and a touch of cornmeal in an unbaked pie shell. Crackly sugar top, fudgy interior.

Raspberry angel food cake with fresh berries folded directly into the whipped egg white batter. Light, fat-free, and bursting with pockets of fruit.

Old-fashioned date cake with chopped nuts and a warm date-sugar topping poured over straight from the oven. Serve with whipped cream for a rich, sticky finish.

Browned butter cookies with a nutty, toasted flavor baked into every bite. Simple thumbprint-style cookies made with just five ingredients and ready in under an hour.

Eggless chocolate cake using vinegar and skim milk for tender, moist layers. A wartime-style two-layer cake with a light chocolate whipped frosting. Sixteen servings of nostalgia.

Crisp, lacy brandy wafers spiced with ginger and rolled into elegant tubes while still warm. Golden syrup gives them a buttery toffee crunch that shatters with every bite.

Malted milk cookies stir malt powder into classic chocolate chip cookie dough for chewy results with the toasty, malty flavor of an old-fashioned milkshake.

Lemon meringue kisses baked low and slow until crisp and dry. Light-as-air cookies with lemon zest and vanilla from just five ingredients.

Crisp butter wafers pressed paper-thin and baked until barely golden. A simple six-ingredient cookie with a delicate snap and pure butter flavor.

Marshmallow cream chocolate cake whips egg whites with marshmallow fluff and folds in cocoa for a virtually fat-free chocolate cake with a soft, almost angel-food crumb.