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Apple Slab Pie with Crumb Topping
This apple slab pie bakes in a rimmed sheet pan with a buttery crust, cinnamon apples and a pecan-oat crumb, so one pan serves 20 or more.
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Dessert Recipes
Cakes, pies, cookies, ice cream and other desserts.
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Classic Gingerbread Cookies
Classic gingerbread cookies with molasses, ginger, cinnamon, allspice and cloves. The sturdy, easy-to-roll dough is ideal for cut-out cookies, tree ornaments and stained glass gingerbread cookies.
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Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
A tender vanilla butter cake baked over a layer of cranberries in cinnamon-and-clove sugar, then flipped to reveal a glossy ruby topping. A festive dessert for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Easy Chocolate Ice Cream
An easy egg-free chocolate ice cream made with coconut milk, cocoa and melted semisweet chocolate; dairy-free and vegan when made with dairy-free chocolate.
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Eggnog Sugar Cookies
Rolled and cut-out Christmas sugar cookies spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon and flavored with rum extract for a classic eggnog taste. Makes about 4 dozen.
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Fall Apples
A simple fall apple dessert: whole baking apples stuffed with a brown sugar, oat, walnut and cinnamon filling and baked until tender, plus tips for choosing and storing apples.
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Five-Minute Chunky Monkey Ice Cream
A quick banana soft-serve made by blending frozen bananas until creamy, then folding in chopped walnuts and chocolate chips. Three ingredients, no ice cream maker needed.
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Gingerbread Mocha Biscotti
Two-tone holiday biscotti with a spiced gingerbread layer and a chocolate coffee layer, twice baked until crisp and perfect for dunking.
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Homemade Graham Crackers
Easy homemade graham crackers made with whole wheat flour, brown sugar, honey and cinnamon, cut to any size for snacks, lunch boxes or s'mores.
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Honeydew Raspberry Popsicles
Two-layer frozen pops made from a smooth honeydew and yogurt puree topped with a tangy raspberry layer. An easy, colorful summer treat that needs only a blender and a few molds.
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Lattice Pie Crust Sugar Cookies
Spiced sugar cookie dough woven into a lattice, cut into rounds and baked with cinnamon sugar so each cookie looks like a tiny pie top.
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Layered Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies
Fudgy brownie batter topped with chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough and baked in one 8-inch pan, for bars with a soft brownie base and a golden cookie crust.
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Maple Pumpkin Pie with Brown Sugar Meringue
A spiced pumpkin custard sweetened with pure maple syrup, baked in a 9-inch crust and finished with a toasted brown sugar meringue. Dairy-free as written, with a crustless jar option for gluten-free guests.
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Maple Walnut Cake
A tender, not-too-sweet 8-inch square snack cake sweetened with maple syrup and brown sugar and studded with chopped walnuts.
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Maple Walnut Oatmeal Cookies
Big, chewy oatmeal cookies with coconut, crunchy walnuts and maple syrup, made without eggs and baked low and slow until golden. Makes 12 jumbo cookies.
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Mini Cherry Pies
Twelve individual lattice-topped cherry pies baked in a standard muffin pan, with a homemade cinnamon-kissed cherry filling and a flaky butter-and-shortening crust.
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Moist Chocolate Cake
A one-bowl moist chocolate cake recipe made with oil, cocoa and hot coffee, baked in two 9-inch rounds for an easy layer cake that stays tender for days.
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No-Churn Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
No-churn ice cream with a cheesecake twist: cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk and whipped cream frozen in a square pan with ribbons of blueberry syrup. No ice cream maker needed.
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Puff Pastry Pudding Hearts
Heart-shaped puff pastry cut from store-bought dough, baked until golden, then split and filled with homemade vanilla pudding and drizzled with melted chocolate.
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Puzzle Apples
A fun way to cut a whole apple into interlocking pieces that pull apart like a puzzle, perfect for lunch boxes and after-school snacks.
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Rhubarb Crisp
Tart rhubarb baked in a vanilla-scented syrup under a crunchy oat, walnut and cinnamon topping. An easy spring and early summer dessert for an 8-inch pan or six ramekins.
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Rustic Apple Crumble Tart
A free-form rustic apple tart with a flaky folded crust, cinnamon-spiced apple filling and a pecan-oat crumble topping, baked on a single sheet pan.
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Soft Bird's Nest Sugar Cookies
Big, soft vanilla sugar cookies spread with sweet icing, sprinkled with colored coconut "nests" and topped with little chocolate eggs. A fun Easter cookie that kids can decorate themselves.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse Towers
Stacked towers of crisp homemade chocolate wafers and a whipped strawberry cream cheese mousse, finished with whipped cream and a thick dark chocolate sauce.
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Strawberry Lemonade Frozen Yogurt
Tangy homemade frozen yogurt made with fresh strawberries, lemon juice, maple syrup and Greek yogurt, churned in an ice cream maker.
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Strawberry Lime Layer Cake
A four-layer white cake filled with tangy coconut lime curd and covered in fluffy whipped strawberry buttercream, a bright and pretty cake for birthdays and spring parties.
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Three No-Bake Easter Treats
Three no-bake Easter treats for the holiday table: chocolate-dipped crispy rice eggs, chocolate oat cookie nests filled with mini eggs, and white chocolate lemon truffles.
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Triple Chocolate Cupcakes
Moist chocolate sour cream cupcakes filled with silky ganache, piped with rich cocoa frosting and finished with a ganache drizzle and chopped chocolate.
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White Chocolate Eggnog Cheesecake Pots
No-bake white chocolate cheesecake pots flavored like eggnog with rum extract and nutmeg, whipped light with cream and chilled in small cups for an easy Christmas dessert.
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White Chocolate Key Lime Pie
A no-bake white chocolate key lime pie with a graham cracker crust and a silky lime and white chocolate ganache filling that sets in the refrigerator overnight.
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Woodland Animals Cake
A rustic three-layer chocolate cherry birthday cake with a thin naked-cake frosting, decorated as a little forest with marzipan woodland animals, cinnamon-stick logs, rosemary trees and cookie-crumb soil.