Recipes With Course: Dessert
Dessert
Brandy Alexander Pie
Brandy Alexander Pie has a creamy mousse-like filling with a hint of brandy and Creme de Cacao. This deluxe pie has a lighter filling than chocolate cream pie and is perfect for special occasions. Brandy Alexander Pie is a special recipe you won’t find at your locale restaurant or bakery. One ...
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies are two of the most popular homemade cookies in the United States. This recipe substitutes up to 50 percent of the white flour in traditional chocolate chip cookie recipes with whole grain oats. While it may sound healthier, a 3-inch cookie has about the same ...
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Cinnamon Rolls
Whether you call them cinnamon rolls or cinnamon buns this popular pastry can be made at home with less sugar, calories, and sodium than many prepared varieties. Like most prepared foods sold in the United States, cinnamon rolls have been supersized. One popular brand provides about 1,000 calories each. A ...
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Carrot Cake
Carrot cake or cupcakes are moist and sweet but not a low calorie cake. You can dust them with powdered sugar saving hundreds of calories compared to traditional cream cheese frosted carrot cake. Carrot cake may seem like a healthy alternative to other cakes, but it is like zucchini bread. ...
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Zuppa Inglese (Italian Trifle)
Zuppa Inglese (Italian Trifle) literally translated means English soup. It is an Italian desert similar to Tiramisu that is neither a soup nor English. Zuppa Inglese is based on the English Trifle and predates Tiramisu. It is an easier, lower calorie alternative to Tiramisu. Custard replaces high calorie mascarpone cheese. ...
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Snickerdoodles
Updated 12-12-2020: Reduced flour weight from 390 to 350 grams. Snickerdoodles are easy, crisp cookies bursting with cinnamon flavor that you can store in a cool dry place for months or freeze for 6 months or more. Snickerdoodles are a refrigerated shaped cookie. The dough must be refrigerated from 2 ...
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Banana Cake Cookies
Banana Cake Cookies, like banana breads and muffins, uses very ripe bananas most people do not eat. Bananas Cake Cookies have a soft, cake-like texture similar to banana bread and fruit filled cookies instead of a dry, crisp texture usually associated with cookies. Substitutions & Changes Substitute 1/2 cup (96 ...
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Thumbprint Cookies
You can make Thumbprint Cookies with a variety of toppings using the chocolate filling shown in the photos or your favorite jam or preserves. Using butter produces a whiter cookie versus margarine. Margarine has added color to make what is essentially shortening look like butter. You can use butter, margarine, ...
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Blueberry Marzipan Torta
The recipe for Blueberry Marzipan Torta has been around for decades, and making it was an annually Christmas tradition for my mother. The original recipe uses raspberry jam, but any flavor jam, homemade or prepared, can be used. Raspberry jam has thousands of small seeds that are always suited for ...
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Chinese Almond Cookies
Unlike American restaurants, most Chinese restaurants in the United States do not serve desserts unless you consider a fortune cookie a dessert. Some Chinese-American restaurants serve this delicious crisp cookie in lieu of or in addition to fortune cookies. Nutrition Information This recipe makes between 50 to 60 cookies depending ...
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