Dessert recipe collection

Moist wholemeal zucchini cake topped with sliced apple, crunchy walnuts, and warm allspice. Baked in a ring tin, this one's brilliant warm or cold with a cuppa.

This old-fashioned yellow squash pie sneaks garden-fresh squash into a sweet custard filling with coconut and lemon. A Southern secret that turns summer squash into the most unexpected dessert your family will ever fight over.

Pecan thumbprint cookies, the classic shortbread-style holiday cookie. Buttery, melt-in-your-mouth dough rolled in finely chopped pecans with a thumbprint well ready for jam, chocolate, or icing.

Chocolate cookies, rolled in powdered sugar with a Hershey's kiss in the center.

Zesty apricot cream filling combines apricot jam with sherry, lemon zest, and orange juice for a bright pastry cream. Egg yolks thicken it into a silken filling for tarts, eclairs, or layer cakes.

Cranberry and lemon star in this winning drop cookie with fluffy frosting from Liz Bannon of Port Washington, which was adapted from a recipe in a Taste of Home cookbook.

Domino cookies are buttery shortbread bars with lemon zest, scored down the center and topped with chocolate chips arranged as domino dots. A fun baking project for kids and parties.

Best of class senior contest--1950 Pillsbury Cookoff. This is a simple cake that looks fancy.

Ultimate everything cookies: ground oatmeal, chocolate chips, grated chocolate bar, and chopped nuts in buttery dough baked to golden perfection in just six minutes.

Legendary loaded cookies with blended oatmeal, chocolate chips, grated chocolate bar, and nuts baked into buttery dough: the famous Neiman Marcus recipe that supposedly cost $250.

Rich and moist easy cake and it only takes minutes to prepare.

This easy chocolate cake recipe has been handed down for generations!

James Beard's hands-on masterclass in a three-layer cake: beating butter by hand, folding egg whites like a soufflé, and mastering classic technique for a fluffy golden crumb with citrus filling.

Classic counting cake with foolproof 1-2-3-4-5 proportions: butter, sugar, flour, eggs, and baking powder create a tender vanilla cake that's ridiculously easy to memorize and bake from scratch.

Next time when you crave something sweet but not too rich, try this recipe. Within 10 minutes you will enjoy a creamy, chocolaty yet light treat.

Frozen chocolate pie with German sweet chocolate folded into cream cheese and whipped topping: rich, silky, no-bake dessert ready in minutes, perfect straight from the freezer.