Desserts

These Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are chewy on the outside, soft and moist on the inside, with a craggy domed top and lots of plump raisins.

Chocolate-Dipped Mandarin Oranges are the easiest showstopper dessert ever – three simple steps to make, gorgeous to look at, a tantalizing contrast of juicy/smooth textures and an explosion of sweet/tart flavors.

This easy, no-bake Pumpkin Spice Icebox Cake has lighter-than-air layers of fluffy pumpkin mousse spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove, smothered with whipped cream and scattered with shards of chocolate-covered toffee.

No crumbly oat topping on this Old Fashioned Apple Crisp. Instead, a brown sugar, pecan-studded batter forms a cake-like cap that encloses the soft, cinnamon-scented apples underneath.

Use leftover blueberry sweet rolls, or slices of brioche slathered with blueberry preserves, to make this pillow-y soft, crusty-topped, cinnamon-scented Blueberry Bread Pudding. A drizzle of cool, creamy vanilla Crème Anglaise is the finishing touch.

Easy, versatile, vanilla-flecked Crème Anglaise will turn pound cake, bread pudding, fruit crisp, or just a bowl of peak season summer fruit into something very special.

Peaches and vanilla are a match made in heaven. In this intoxicating Peach-Vanilla Crisp, perfect late summer peaches are spiced with a triple dose: vanilla extract, vanilla sugar, and vanilla ice cream on top.

These salty sweet cookies are like a graham cracker crust without the filling. Enjoy them plain with a cup of tea, broken up into crumbles over ice cream, or transformed into spectacular tiny tartlets with fruit, chocolate, or the toppings of your choice.

The taste of summer, this Blueberry Pie is bursting with plump native berries baked to soft, juicy sweetness with subtle hints of lemon, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Zucchini Cake Cheesecake is a dizzying five-layer tower made of alternating tiers of creamy cheesecake and pecan-studded zucchini cake, slathered in sweet, fluffy cream cheese frosting.