Dessert recipe collection

Favourite shoofly pie with baking-soda-aerated molasses filling, ginger and cinnamon spice, and lard-and-butter crumbs. The Lancaster County classic with extra lift and warm spice.

Favourite sour cream apple pie tosses tart apples in a vanilla sour cream custard, then crowns it with a crunchy walnut-cinnamon sugar topping. No butter in the topping means a cleaner, crispier nut crust.

Sour cream pound cake bakes a tall, dense Bundt-style cake with a tangy crumb from a full cup of sour cream. Vanilla and lemon extract carry the flavor, with optional coconut for chew.

Old-fashioned sour cream raisin pie with chopped raisins folded into a tangy custard finished with nutmeg and a touch of lemon juice. Serves equally well warm, at room temperature, or chilled the next day.

Strawberry daiquiri pie, a cool no-bake dessert with a creamy cream cheese and condensed milk filling spiked with strawberry daiquiri mix and rum extract, all in a graham cracker crust. Chill or freeze for a breezy summer slice.

Favourite Sugar and Spice Cookies with Lemon Frosting recipe

Taffy apple cookies are buttery bite-sized cookies on toothpicks, dipped in melted caramel and rolled in chopped nuts. Holiday party trick that looks like mini caramel apples.

Classic Italian tiramisu with mascarpone, espresso, cognac, amaretto, and dual layers of Savoiardi ladyfingers and amaretti biscuits. No-bake dessert showstopper.

Favourite walnut cake: a flourless, ground-walnut sponge held together with whipped eggs and a whisper of breadcrumbs. Tall, tender, and naturally gluten-free.

Washington apple cake packed with three cups of fresh chopped apples and crunchy walnuts, warm with cinnamon and nutmeg. An oil-rich, ultra-moist tube cake served with a cloud of sweetened whipped cream.

Favourite Yorkshire pudding made with hot beef drippings in a muffin tin for crisp, puffed cups with custardy centers. The traditional British accompaniment to a roast.

Chocolate zucchini cake with grated zucchini and buttermilk for an unbelievably moist crumb, warmed with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a whisper of orange zest. The garden surplus dessert that hides its vegetables.

Soft pumpkin cookies loaded with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, raisins, and walnuts. A big-batch holiday cookie with warm spice flavor in every cakey bite.

Flourless chocolate cake spiked with Grand Marnier, baked low and slow for a dense, fudgy interior with a delicate soufflé-like crown. Naturally gluten-free dessert for holidays, dinner parties, or any chocolate-lover's celebration.

Festival Half Moon Cookies with Chocolate Frosting recipe

Lighter snickerdoodles made with just an egg white and margarine for a tender, lower-fat cinnamon-sugar cookie. Rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked into 40 small bites.