Dessert Recipes
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Easy, Soft Homemade Ginger Molasses Cookies
Ginger Molasses Cookies are a holiday staple with hot cocoa and lively music. They are easier to make than rolled gingerbread cookies and still fill your home with all the smells of cinnamon and exotic spices from the orient.
White Wheat Caramel Pecan Sticky Buns
The secret to these remarkable sticky buns in topping the baked cinnamon rolls with the cooked caramel pecan sauce after the rolls are baked. Add an accent of the orange, lemon, and vanilla in the dough, and you end up with perfection.
Indulgent Fluffy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
It’s that time of year when pumpkin is everywhere and that excuse to finally bake the soft fluffy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies has finally arrived!
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Iconic, irresistible, and universally adored, whoopie pies are one of the most delicious desserts around! This recipe for a red velvet version are delicate, delicious, and very easy to make.
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!
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.
Cake Recipes
Quick Best Cinnamon Crumble Jam-Filled Coffee Cake
Simple, quick, and filled with jam, this rich delicate coffee cake is one of the easiest and most delicious on the internet!
Simple Best Homemade Pound Cake
Pound cake is made with simple pantry staples, so one can make this up whenever desired. If you were raised on the frozen pound cakes from the grocery store, making it may seem like a ton of work. It’s not!
Simple Delicious Chocolate Sour Cream Pecan Coffee Cake
The winter months beg for opportunities to turn on the oven and bake something. Add the chance to gather with friends and chat over a warm coffee cake, and this recipe was born.
Cookies & Bars Recipes
Best Ultimate Homemade Butterscotch Blondies with Chocolate Chips
Does anyone remember Nancy Drew? She always gave away Blondies to get information from witnesses. Here is our chef’s favorite recipe for them. It’s not top secret, but it is the best.
Easy Double Fudge Chocolate Chip Cookies
Next to chocolate chip cookies, double chocolate chip cookies are the most popular cookies in most bakeries.
The Top Secret Recipe for New York Italian Butter Cookies
Our chef has recently helped a few bakers, originally from Brooklyn, who have been on a long quest to find a recipe for certain Italian bakery cookies. These bakers call them butter cookies, although they don’t taste buttery.
Pie Recipes
Easy French Raspberry Rhubarb Crostata Tart
A rustic tart or French crostata is a free-form tart baked without a tart pan with the dough edged folded up around the filling. It is the simplest of all pastries to make.
Best Ever Classic Frangipane Tart
Our Chef’s Best Ever Classic Pear Frangipane Tart or Tarte Bourdaloue in French is a delicious lightly spiced Fall and Winter pastry full of almond notes and perfect pear texture. The Sweet Pastry is filled with Almond Cream and topped with Poached Pears.
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.