Dessert

Desserts – my favorite section! You will find plenty of cakes, cookies, pies, and candy in this section to satisfy your sweet tooth. Please use the “Previous Posts” navigation button at the bottom left of the screen to browse more recipes. Thank you!

Key Lime Pie Thumbprints

Key Lime Pie Thumbprints

Key Lime Pie Thumbprints are like having bite-sized key lime pies! These cookies have a soft graham cracker cookie base with a slightly crisp coating of sugar and are filled with delicious key lime pie filling. We then add a pinch of lime zest and Read More

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

This Strawberry Shortcake Cake has the perfect balance of delicious homemade vanilla cake, fresh strawberries, and fluffy whipped cream. It is light, refreshing, and the epitome of summer dessert. When I was creating this cake recipe, I had this specific dessert in mind. It had Read More

Key Lime Cheesecake Cookies

Key Lime Cheesecake Cookies

Key Lime Cheesecake cookies are a combination of key lime pie and cheesecake in cookie form! These cookies have a soft graham cracker cookie base with a slightly crisp coating of sugar and are filled with a creamy key lime cheesecake filling. We then add Read More

Strawberry Cheesecake Thumbprints

Strawberry Cheesecake Thumbprints

These Strawberry Cheesecake Thumbprints are like eating bite-sized strawberry cheesecakes in cookie form! They have a graham cracker cookie base with a rich, creamy cheesecake filling that is swirled with a fresh strawberry puree. While they appear very elegant, they are actually quite easy to Read More

Easter and Spring Sugar Cookies

Easter and Spring Sugar Cookies

Easter and Spring Sugar Cookies are so much fun! Flowers, bunnies, carrots, eggs, and more…the decorating options are endless not to mention the wide assortment of beautiful colors you get to mix up. These sugar cookies are soft, buttery, do not spread in the oven, Read More

Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake

Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake

Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake looks ridiculously elegant with its marbled design but it is really easy and so delicious! This cheesecake is rich, creamy, and has a sweet raspberry puree woven into the filling. I love to make this during peak raspberry season but it is Read More

Easy Eggless Coconut Cream Pie

Easy Eggless Coconut Cream Pie

Our Easy Eggless Coconut Cream Pie is a light and whimsical dessert that has the perfect balance of flavors and textures. The creamy filling contains a harmonious blend of sweet coconut flavor while the crust adds a wonderful vanilla buttery crunch. Topped with a cloud-like Read More

Perfect Pound Cake

Perfect Pound Cake

This Perfect Pound Cake is everything you would expect a pound cake to be and so much more. It is moist, rich, tender, buttery, and is excellent on its own or as the base in other recipes. Easy and quick to assemble, this classic cake Read More

St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies

St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies

We love St. Patrick’s Day in this house! And what better way to celebrate than cooking up some traditional Irish fare such as fried cabbage or baking some yummy St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies?!? These sugar cookies are soft, buttery, do not spread in the Read More

Spring Swirl Thumbprint Cookies

Spring Swirl Thumbprint Cookies

Spring Swirl Thumbprint Cookies are soft multicolored sugar cookies rolled in granulated sugar, filled with jam, and topped with a sweet glaze. We use the same recipe as our Easy Thumbprint Cookies but add gel food coloring to create fun, playful colors reminiscent of spring. Read More