Recipes - Desserts
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Pecan Pie Dough Cookies with Ice Cream
A trip to a favorite Mexican restaurant inspires Alicia to invent a new cookie. Try it and let us know what you think!
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Chocolate Cherry Tart
Use a cherry pitter to speed you through the prep process of this glorious tart.
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Old-fashioned Snickerdoodles
Give our Old-fashioned Snickerdoodles a try and let us know how you like them!
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Blueberry Crisp with Oatmeal Crust
A dessert that's so simple, so classic, so delicious!
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Grandma Gayle’s Peanut Butter Cookies
These homemade peanut butter cookes are the real thing -- delicious and authentic.
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So-Sweet Sopapilla Chips
Awesome enough to eat straight from the oven, but drizzled with a little warm honey or chocolate, they are simply heavenly.
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Pillsbury Bake-Off's Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups
Sue Compton of Delanco, N.J., won first for her Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups in the Sweet Treats Pillsbury Bake-Off category.
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Old-Fashioned Confectioner’s Icing
This simple icing can be colored for any type of sugar cookie occasion you need.
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Pear Spoon Bread
Here's a lovely dessert made hassle-free with the help of a slow cooker!
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Nanny Edith’s Sugar Cookies
These easy cookies are a blast to bake with kids. Even young tykes love to decorate them. And they survive quite well being shipped as treats for those special people not at home.
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Cream Cheese Frosting
Oh so rich with a slight bite from the cream cheese, this frosting is delicious with Red Velvet Cupcakes or any cake you like!
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Valentine Red Velvet Cupcakes
Martie Leming of Raleigh, NC., tried dozens of red velvet cakes before inventing this, the perfect easy and delicious recipe. We've turned it into cupcakes for Valentine's.
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One-Bowl Chocolate Fudge
This recipe comes from Kraft Creative Kitchens. It's incredibly flexible and quick to make the perfect home-crafted Valentine!
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“Butterless” Oatmeal, Raisin and Pecan Cookies
At only 79 calories per cookie and less than 2 grams of fat, it’s a perfect, guiltless cookie! Our thanks go to Karen Singer of San Diego for the recipe's inspiration.
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Chantilly Cream
Use Chantilly Cream to top chocolate custard, Apple Betty, chocolate bread pudding or any gooey dessert.
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Chocolate Custard with Chantilly Cream
This rich dessert will remind you of caramel cream custard -- only chocolate. Yum!
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Eat Yer Veg Cupcakes
These delightfully different cupcakes come from Guest Blogger Sylvia Regalado. Gotta try 'em.
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Tea Cakes
Our thanks for this recipe go to The Kitchen Diva, Angela Shelf Medearis. Tea Cakes are from her book The New African-American Kitchen.
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Microwave Cashew Brittle
Here’s one of our fastest and favorite holiday food gifts. Think peanut brittle, only way better!
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Angel Slices from Joy of Cooking
This classic bar cookie from Joy of Cooking is Guest Blogger Liza Gyllenhaal's favorite Christmas confection.
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Easy Spiced Stewed Apples
Every fall we start falling for apples all over again. After the pies are baked, we start looking for yet another recipe to make the most of this glorious bounty. This is it!
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Granny Zeta’s Pecan Pies
Beverly has worked on her grandmother's pecan pie recipe for years, updating it for more modern tastes. The trick is to get a pie that's not too sweet with the taste of buttery toasted pecans in every bite!
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Lemon Glaze
Perfectly sweet-tart, this easy glaze is a nice compliment to spicy gingerbread or other dessert cakes and cookies.
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My Favorite Gingerbread with Lemon Glaze
Eating fresh baked gingerbread is like gobbling up a warm hug. It's rare to find gingerbread made from scratch anymore, and yet it is so easy. You’ll love our inexpensive, authentic recipe!
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Banana Bread Pudding
Banana bread pudding is a delicious combination of traditional bread pudding and another traditional dessert -- hot banana pudding. Serve this hybrid pudding warm with vanilla ice cream and our Rich Caramel Sauce.
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Hot Fudge Sauce
This is ice cream parlor hot fudge sauce at its best!
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Peach Season Cobbler with Flax
Take advantage of summer's ripe peaches with this delicious and easy cobbler. The flax gives it a little something extra!
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Rich Caramel Sauce
Just about anything you pour caramel sauce over is vastly better for it. It may only have five ingredients, but this easy caramel sauce tastes like a gourmet delight.
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Margie’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
When a Kitchen Scoop reader told us she remodeled her entire kitchen around one cookie recipe, we knew we had to try them. Here they are, and are they terrific!
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Chocolate-Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies
Lalena Price was desperate. “All I want is that simple recipe for no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies – you know, the kind with oats, peanut butter, and cocoa." Here it is!
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Pineapple-Banana Frozen Salad Cups
Remember those frozen “salads” from the ‘50ies that combined fruit, nuts, sour cream and, more often than not, mayonnaise?
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Strawberry-Blueberry Parfait
Here are the rules for making this amazing summer dessert: Do not cook, throw it together in a jiffy, eat and enjoy!
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Peaches and Cream Trifle
A mix of peaches and creamy pudding with cake and juicy fruit fresh from the orchard -- what’s not to love?
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Crème Custards (Individual), with Berries
We never thought we could turn out the creamy smooth crème custards you find in restaurants until we tried this recipe, featured in Desperation Entertaining!
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Shoney’s Strawberry Pie
Alicia found this version of The Unofficial Shoney's Strawberry Pie in her grandmother’s recipe box. Making the glaze yourself is easy to master and so much better than store-bought.
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Banana Pecan Mini Loaves
The genius in Banana Pecan Mini Loaves is four loaves (three for gifts and one to keep) with just 20 minutes of mixing. Fresh banana bread from your own oven? A great gift!
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Quick Chocolate “Fondue” with Strawberries
Built around an ordinary container of chocolate frosting from the supermarket, this spontaneous dessert can be is ready when you are.
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Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
Chocolate is the perfect compliment to banana and elevates this quick bread to dessert status without overwhelming the delicate nature of the bread.
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Chocolate Gravy with Croissants
Is it breakfast or dessert? You decide and let us know!
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Apple Brown Betty
Apple Betty dates to Colonial days, and we suspect those Revolutionary cooks liked this dessert for the same reasons we do – it’s delicious and comforting.
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Fruit Smoothies
These smoothies aren't just for breakfast. Try whipping them up for afternoon snacks and after-exercise treats. You can feel good about serving them any time.
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Chocolate Bread Pudding
A friend once said our Chocolate Bread Pudding is "about as close to heaven as you can get while you're still alive." Very well said -- and perhaps even true. You decide!
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