Goose recipes

Neiman Marcus seven layer cake is a legendary Texas department-store dessert: seven paper-thin vanilla cake layers stacked with chocolate butter frosting. Stately, showy, and engineered for special occasions.

Low-fat Dutch apple cake spreads a thin, biscuit-like batter under overlapping cinnamon-sugar apples. Egg whites and skim milk keep it light, more fruit than cake in every slice.

Caramel-pecan cake made with buttermilk chocolate batter, folded egg whites for lift, and a gooey caramel-chocolate chip topping baked right on top.

Glazed apple gem cookies: small drop cookies with chopped apple, raisins, and nuts, dipped in apple juice glaze while warm. Soft, spiced, and packed with fall flavor.

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

1-2-3-4 cake: classic American butter layer cake named for its 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 4 eggs ratio. Finished with chocolate frosting between three tender layers.

Flourless chocolate cream cake made with semi-sweet chocolate, pecans, and Irish cream liqueur, crowned with a pillowy Irish cream whipped cream topping.

Mexican wedding cookies (polvorones): tender almond shortbread balls baked low and slow, then rolled twice in powdered sugar for that signature snowy coating. Melt-in-your-mouth holiday classics.

Low-fat cherry cheesecake built on blended cottage cheese and whipped egg whites for a light, airy slice, with no added sugar. A crustless lightened cheesecake topped with sweet bing cherries.

Warm brownie pudding cake bakes its own fudgy chocolate sauce underneath a soft cake top. Pour boiling water over the batter, don't stir, bake, then spoon out cake and sauce in one go.

Moist persimmon bread studded with walnuts and raisins, lightly spiced and finished with a touch of bourbon. The persimmons keep the loaves tender for days.

Cherry cheese brownies swirled with cream cheese, coconut, almond extract, and dark sweet cherries through a brownie mix batter. A fancy twist on box brownies.

Homemade flatbread with a slow-rise yeast dough using just five ingredients. Chewy, pillowy, and versatile enough for wraps, pizza, or dipping alongside any meal.

Hot fudge pudding cake that creates its own chocolate sauce as it bakes. Cocoa batter topped with sugar and hot water transforms into cake over a pool of rich fudge sauce.

Buttery shortbread base topped with a honey-almond caramel, double-baked into golden bars and cut while still warm. Crisp underneath, chewy on top.

Honey spice ball cookies rolled in oats with cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, and a tablespoon of honey. Crackle-topped holiday cookies ready in 30 minutes.