Dessert/8 recipes

Introduce your friends to this decadent cake that gets its rich taste from one of the main ingredients: sour cream.

A scrumptious low-fat cake that is perfect snack to have while enjoying a relaxing night on the couch.

Moist banana layer cake studded with grated white chocolate and topped with a banana-white chocolate frosting. Use up those overripe bananas in style.

Toll House crumb cake with sour cream batter, chocolate chips folded in, and a brown sugar walnut-chocolate streusel topping. The classic Nestlé coffee cake recipe.

Classic peanut butter cookies with the signature fork crisscross top, made with butter, equal parts brown and granulated sugar, and a full cup of peanut butter. Yields five dozen and freezes well.

Layered bar cookies with a butter shortbread base, apricot jam, and a cocoa-coconut-peanut meringue topping. Three distinct layers in every square.

Bakery-sized chocolate chunk cookies loaded with macadamia nuts and pecans. Hand-chopped chocolate creates melty pockets in a buttery, chewy cookie.

Classic butter-rich oatmeal cookie dough rolls that freeze for 6 months, ready to slice and bake into chewy raisin nut cookies any time.

Chocolate banana split cake with cocoa-banana layers, fresh sliced bananas, homemade chocolate sauce, whipped topping, and a cherry on top. No butter, no egg yolks.

Brought this cake to my last pot-luck, and it was a huge hit. The cake was so moist and orange-y. Glad that I found this recipe!

Old-fashioned three-layer chocolate cake built with brown sugar, buttermilk, and melted unsweetened chocolate. A heritage American layer cake decorated with walnuts and frosted between every tier.

Cocoa-spice snackin' cake mixes cocoa, applesauce, and warm cinnamon-nutmeg into a tender square pan cake. Easy weekday baking with a moist crumb and chocolate-spice depth.

Marshmallow clouds wrap chocolate-pecan cookie dough around frozen mini marshmallows for soft, pillowy cookies with surprise sweet chewy centers. Better than s'mores, baked at home.

Chocolate top apple cake with chopped apples folded into a cinnamon batter, baked under a crunchy layer of brown sugar, nuts, and mini chocolate chips. A 9x13 crowd-pleaser.

Three layers of deep chocolate cake get brushed with vanilla sugar glaze while hot, then stacked with mocha buttercream icing spiked with coffee and cocoa.

Clinton's Chips are oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with old-fashioned oats, two sugars, and a generous load of semisweet chocolate chips. Crispy-edged, chewy-centered, and ready in 30 minutes.