Dessert Recipes

From classic favorites to creative confections, explore our dessert recipe archive and bring a little sweetness to your day. There’s a dessert recipe for every season and occasion!

  • Chocolate Butterball Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 29 minutes

    These chocolate butterball cookies make an easy and delicious weekend treat. They’re also great holiday cookies!

  • Chocolate Bourbon Truffles With Chopped Pecans

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 7 hours 15 minutes

    Celebrate the day with a special treat, like these rich and creamy chocolate and bourbon truffles!

  • Bite-Sized Chicken Salad Puffs

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 33 minutes

    Use Gruyere or milder havarti cheese in these delicious little choux puffs. The puffs are baked and then split and filled with a delicious chicken salad mixture.

  • Chewy Sugar Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 24 minutes

    These chewy sugar cookies are soft and tender with a crisp sugar coating. An easy, classic recipe that’s perfect for holidays, parties, or anytime you need a quick homemade treat.

  • Carrot Applesauce Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

    This moist carrot applesauce cake is filled with shredded carrots, warm spices, raisins, and pecans for texture. It’s an easy one-layer cake that works for birthdays, potlucks, or a simple afternoon treat. Finish it with a tangy cream cheese frosting or keep it simple with a dusting of powdered sugar.

  • Homemade Salted Caramels

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 35 minutes

    These homemade caramel candies are garnished with flaky sea salt or fleur de sel. The chewy caramels make fabulous gifts.

  • Caramel Glaze

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 12 minutes

    This buttery caramel glaze is easy to make in just 10 minutes, and it adds rich, sweet flavor to everything from spice cakes to bread pudding. With just four ingredients—brown sugar, granulated sugar, butter, and heavy cream—it creates a velvety finish that’s perfect for drizzling over your favorite baked goods. Try it on fig cake, apple cake, or even pancakes for an indulgent touch.

  • Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 22 minutes

    A chocolate cake mix makes these chocolate cake mix cookies a snap to mix and bake. Oats, brickle or toffee chips, and optional chopped nuts add to the flavor and texture.

  • Easy Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

    These butter pecan snowball cookies are a classic holiday favorite! They’re buttery, nutty, and rolled in powdered sugar for a beautiful snowy finish. With just 6 simple ingredients, they’re quick to make and perfect for gifting or sharing.

  • Butter-Pecan Shortbread Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 22 minutes

    Brown sugar shortbread with a buttery flavor and bits of chopped pecan. These will quickly become a favorite cookie!

  • Chocolate Drop Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 24 minutes

    Soft chocolate drop cookies are easy to make and versatile. Add white chocolate chips and chopped nuts or add semisweet chips.

  • Brown Sugar Sour Cream Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 22 minutes

    Sour cream is the secret to the soft texture of these brown sugar drop cookies. You can also add chocolate chips or raisins to the cookies.

  • Brown Sugar Pound Cake

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 1 hour 22 minutes

    This brown sugar pound cake loaf—half-pound cake—is the perfect size for most families, and it is easily doubled for a Bundt or tube cake pan.

  • Brown Sugar Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 1 hour

    Brown sugar cookies are delicately sweet, with a soft texture from ground almonds. Roll them thin for crisp cookies, make sandwich cookies, or pair with ice cream. Perfect for holidays or everyday treats!

  • Brown Sugar Bars With Chocolate Chips

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 40 minutes

    These Brown Sugar Bars with Chocolate Chips are soft and cake-like, loaded with melty chocolate chips and crunchy pecans. They’re easy to customize with your favorite mix-ins.

  • Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 32 minutes

    Simple brown butter gives these chocolate chip cookies amazing flavor. Add pecans to the cookies or leave them out.

  • Brown Butter Blondies

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 35 minutes

    Brown butter gives these blondies the best flavor, and they’re super easy to prepare and bake! Add chocolate chips and pecans for an amazing treat!

  • Boston Cream Pie Recipe

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 3 hours 5 minutes

    A homemade Boston cream pie is a lovely layered cake to make for a holiday dessert table or special weekend treat.

  • Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

    ByDiana Rattray
    Total Time: 55 minutes

    These blueberry cheesecake bars are baked on a shortbread crust. Fresh lemon zest and juice flavor the delicious bars.