Recipe Type: Desserts & Candy
Cookies, cake, pie, desert, candy
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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Devil’s Food Cake
Devil’s Food Cake is one of America’s most popular cakes especially for lovers of dark chocolate. Nutrition Information Nutrition information is for unfrosted cake. Baking TImes Oven temperatures can vary by 50°F or more. Modern oven are more accurate, but there can still be variations. Overcooked cakes can be dry ...
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Eclair Chocolate Glaze
This Eclair Chocolate Glaze recipe makes a thick glaze for eclairs and cream puffs that can also be used to glaze cookies or as hot fudge for ice cream sundaes. You can make the glaze using a double-boiler, microwave oven, or heavy sauce pan. The secret to a smooth glaze ...
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Biscotti di Prato
Biscotti are one of the most popular and most recognizable Italian cookies in the United States. Biscotti is Italian for cookies like the English (England) word biscuit. It refers to all cookies, not just the long, narrow twice-baked biscotti sold in the United States. Biscotti di Prato is a variation of ...
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