Dessert recipe collection

German sweet chocolate cake built on a chocolate cake mix base enriched with extra butter, buttermilk, and folded egg whites for a tender, tall three-layer cake. Designed for the classic coconut-pecan frosting on the tops only.

Gingerbread bears: classic rolled and cut gingerbread cookies with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, molasses, and a lemon zest brightener. Chill the dough, roll thin, decorate as bears for the holidays.

Lemon butter wafers are thin, lacy butter cookies scented with fresh lemon zest and ground almonds. Perfect with tea or sandwiched with raspberry jam.

Buttery pecan shortbread balls rolled in snowy powdered sugar for these melt-in-your-mouth Mexican wedding cookies. A holiday favorite that's actually simple enough for weeknight baking.

Old-fashioned oatmeal raisin cookies with walnuts, warm cinnamon and clove, and sour milk for tenderness. Crisp golden edges, soft chewy centers, and the kind of nostalgic flavor that beats any bakery version.

Homemade pineapple upside-down cake from scratch with butter, mace-spiced vanilla batter, and caramelized crushed pineapple topping. Tender crumb meets sticky-sweet fruit in every bite.

Poppyseed cookies made with sweetened poppy seed paste folded into a buttery shortbread-style dough. Tender drop cookies with deep blue speckling and a powdered sugar finish.

Russian tea cakes with a buttery shortbread base, a thumbprint of jam or chopped walnuts, and a snowfall of powdered sugar. Holiday cookie tin classic.

Strawberry cheesecake muffins hide a sweet cream cheese filling and a spoonful of strawberry jam in the middle of an almond-scented brown sugar muffin. Bakery-style brunch treat with a surprise center.

Streusel cream cheese coffee cake layers tender butter cake around a sweet cream cheese filling, finished with a buttery flour-sugar streusel. Baked in a springform pan, perfect for brunch.

Layered white chocolate raspberry cheesecake with chocolate wafer crust and dark chocolate whipped cream topping. Slow-baked low and slow for a silky, crack-free finish.

While watching the first snowfall, try these scrumptious cookies that contain a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Slice and bake sugar cookies: a make-ahead dough rolled in wax paper and chilled, then sliced and baked into tender cookies. Yields nearly eight dozen.

Whole wheat apple cake bars with wheat germ, walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Dense, fruity, and lightly spiced, cut into bars and dusted with powdered sugar.

Bacardi rum cake made with yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, pecans, and dark rum, then soaked in a buttery rum syrup. A boozy, sticky bundt cake that's a holiday classic.

A scrumptious dessert that is perfect thing to warm you and your tastebuds up on that cold winter night.