Dessert recipe collection

Vintage 1935 chocolate yeast bread with cocoa, pecans, and vanilla kneaded by hand and baked into a dark, fragrant loaf. A Depression-era recipe worth reviving.

Chocolate mug cake for one, mixed and microwaved right in the mug in about 5 minutes. No oven, one dish, and a warm, fudgy chocolate cake whenever a craving hits.

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.

Easy Graham Cracker Toffee Cookies: a 4-ingredient bake-sale shortcut where buttery toffee pours over graham crackers and toasted pecans. Crisp, candy-like, ready in 30 minutes.

Special Easter bread made with whole wheat breadcrumbs, candied citron, and orange zest in a bread machine. This sweet, fruit-studded loaf has Old World charm.

Absolutely Deep Dark Chocolate Fudge Biscuits recipe

Aeblekage: a traditional Danish apple cake with cinnamon-dusted apples baked under a buttery cake batter. Equal-weight flour-sugar-butter ratio for tender, golden-topped slices.

Great recipe. Make it exactly as is. This is my new standby!

Traditional New Mexican biscochitos with anise seed and cinnamon-sugar topping. These shortening-based cookies are crisp, fragrant, and cut into festive shapes.

Loaded granola cookies with toasted walnuts, chocolate chips, raisins, oats, and granola in a buttery brown sugar dough. Chewy, chunky, and they keep for weeks.

Apple meringue pie with grated apples in a custardy cinnamon-nutmeg filling and a cloud of vanilla meringue on top. A two-stage bake that finishes lightly golden.

Alice's chess pie blends butter, sugar, eggs, half-and-half, cornmeal, and a splash of vinegar into a glossy custard pie with a crackly sugar top. A Southern pantry classic baked in a single crust.

Funnel cake: classic state-fair fried batter poured through a funnel in a spiral pattern, fried golden, and dusted with powdered sugar and cinnamon. The Pennsylvania Dutch carnival treat.

Mississippi mud cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with melted unsweetened chocolate, instant pudding and a generous pour of milk. Dark, dense and impossibly moist, dusted with confectioners' sugar.

One of the best carrot cakes I've ever had with a decadent cream cheese frosting.

Harvest apple pie with a rolled oat crust that bakes up flakier and toastier than the standard double crust. Cinnamon and nutmeg apples bubble underneath while the lattice top turns deep gold.