Recipes

This pistachio cake is as easy as it is tasty. A delightful green Bundt cake made by enhancing a cake mix and pudding with homemade pistachio butter. It's topped with a sweet and creamy glaze for a delicious dessert.

I have made this Texas sheet cake recipe for years. My children always chose it for their birthday cake over any other, and it makes enough for a crowd. Moist and delicious. Very easy to make. Enjoy!

This easy sock it to me cake uses a butter yellow cake mix and adds cinnamon, brown sugar, and pecans.

Learn how to make banana cake with this versatile and quick recipe. Not only is it moist and delicious, but the same batter can be used to make banana bread and muffins. This cake is delicious frosted with chocolate or cream cheese frosting.

This Rolo pretzel recipe is easy and fun to make with pretzels, caramel-covered chocolate candies, and pecan nuts for a delicious sweet treat. Store cooled turtles in an airtight container.

These Italian wedding cookies are sometimes called Mexican wedding cookies or butterballs and can be shaped into crescents. They're also delicious made with pecans or hazelnuts instead of almonds. Great for gifting! This recipe was given to me by a friend who grew up in central Europe; they are the best wedding cookies I've ever had.

Maple walnut ice cream is a Canadian favorite! This sweet ice cream actually stays soft even after a week.

This chocolate pecan pie is made just like a traditional pecan pie, with the addition of chocolate chips. As the pie bakes, the chips melt, adding rich, chocolaty flavor in every bite. It's always the first dessert to go at our family's Thanksgiving!

I find nothing more satisfying than recreating the unique breads of Latin America in my own kitchen. I especially love when the bread is meant to be stuffed with savory fillings and drowned in spicy salsa — in Mexico, the torta ahogada is just that. Birote (pronounced bee-row-teh) is a crunchy, darkly baked sourdough bread said to have a flavor unique to the environment of Guadalajara, but if you grab your favorite beer and some limes, you'll come pretty close!

These thumbprint cookies are filled with raspberry jam and drizzled with a sweet glaze. They look so pretty on a cookie tray and taste delicious!

This is the best carrot cake recipe I have ever made! It's so moist and flavorful and makes a large quantity of cake. Since I started making it, I have been hounded to make this cake time and time again. Frost with cream cheese frosting.

This tender quick bread has a lightly crunchy crust and is perfect with a cup of tea.

This easy chocolate eggless mug cake is made with flaked almonds and no egg. It is ready in a few minutes and perfect if you're dying for something sweet. Serve dusted with confectioners' sugar and topped with ice cream or whipped cream.

Michelle Gayer tops her sensational focaccia with sweet, tender strips of roasted butternut squash scattered with thyme and drizzled with honey.

These Nanaimo bars have three layers but are well worth the effort. My son is famous for making and taking these to work. I've heard other names, but everyone knows them as Nanaimo bars here in the Northwest. They are sold on British Columbia Ferries and at coffee stands.

Michelle Gayer of Salty Tart bakery in Minneapolis smothers her monkey bread with honey-laced brown butter before baking.