Dessert Recipes
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Big Texas Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is a big ol’ cake with a shocking red color and an extra-tender cake piled high with fluffy cream cheese frosting. The finished cake is almost a foot tall when frosted! It’s a wonderful dramatic dessert.
The Best French Macarons
French Macarons are the pinnacle of baking confectionery genius. Macarons take cookies to an unimaginable extreme of culinary perfection. Don’t confuse Macarons with the coconut cookies called “macaroons.” These almond flour cookies are made with a meringue base. When baked correctly, they have a light, crisp sugary coating surrounding a tender, chewy cookie interior.
4 Easy Delicious Homemade Holiday Cookie Mixes
This cookie mix recipe collection is just fantastic! There are four flavor variations here in one post. Homemade mixes are easy to make and you can control the ingredients. It’s a wonderful way to bake from scratch and still enjoy the convenience of a mix.
Gingerbread Cutout Cookie Formulation
Gingerbread cookies are perhaps the most requested and baked cookies of the Holiday Season. Here is a fantastic formula that will give you excellent shape and texture.
Gingerbread Pound Cake with Browned Butter Pecan Glaze
This recipe for gingerbread pound cake makes a rich, dense cake with a tender crumb. The sponge of the cake is a fine texture with a silky finish. It stays moist for several days and is heavy with spice and a hint of warm black pepper.
Classic Mile High Apple Pie
This pie recipe effortlessly combines everything we love about pies. A super buttery flaky crust that melts in your mouth and a sweet (but not-too-sweet) fresh apple filling that evokes a sense of down-home warmth and comfort.
Cake Recipes
Killer Delicious Black Forest Bundt Cake with Truffle Frosting
We wanted to save the effort of making an elaborate layer cake, but keep the flavors of the traditional Black Forest Cake. The secret ingredient in the batter makes all the difference.
Easy Chocolate Gluten-Free, Keto-friendly, One-Minute Microwave Mug Muffin
Looking for a quick grab-and-go breakfast that has all the rich delicious flavors of a dessert but the healthy benefits of a low-carb meal? This is it! A Coconut flour One minute microwave muffin that you literally make in a mug!
Easy Beginner’s Sponge Cake & Boston Cream Pie
If you’ve never made a sponge cake, this is a fantastic recipe to start your baking adventure. It is also a good base in our Boston Cream Pie recipe because it doesn’t require any tricky folding or separating of eggs usually required for making a good sponge cake.
Cookies & Bars Recipes
Easy Extra-Chocolate Coconut Cookie Bars
Magic Bars, Coconut Chocolate Cookie Bars, Choco-Coconut Bars, whatever you want to call them, our bars will be your new go-to favorite dessert. Try the recipe below.
Healthier Whole-Grain Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy delicious caramel buttery cookies made with whole-grain are an artform. These cookies make you look like a master renaissance baker!
The Ultimate Gourmet Salted Caramel Buttery Shortbread Bars
Looking for a signature dessert bar that sets you apart as a totally wicked genius? This bar is loaded with decadent salted caramel enthroned in a rich buttery shortbread. It is worthy of the most gourmet bakeshop! In fact, it has been served in them!
Pie Recipes
Classic Mile High Apple Pie
This pie recipe effortlessly combines everything we love about pies. A super buttery flaky crust that melts in your mouth and a sweet (but not-too-sweet) fresh apple filling that evokes a sense of down-home warmth and comfort.
Home Baker’s Perfect Pie Crust Tutorial
Today we’re covering some of the top tips and tricks used by our chefs to create some of the best pies in the baking industry.
Spiced Cherry Cranberry Pie
This crisp flaky crust is the right contrast to the tender juicy fruit-filled center of this pie that is bursting with cherries and a handful of cranberries to add the right balance of tartness. There are hints of citrus and spice in the filling as well, adding subtle nuances of gourmet elegance.
