Some desserts you make once and move on. These? You'll want them all winter long. These desserts make cold weather feel less like something to endure and more like an excuse to bake. I keep coming back to them because they nail that cozy factor without getting boring. Rich enough to satisfy, comforting enough to crave on repeat.
Almond Crescent Cookies
These almond crescent cookies are a delicious treat full of nostalgia and flavor. Their gentle almond aroma and snowy powdered-sugar finish make them a favorite during the holidays, but they’re just as lovely any time you want a simple, elegant cookie.
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Chocolate Sheet Cake
If you love all things chocolate, you may have just found heaven on earth with this moist chocolate sheet cake recipe! With a fluffy chocolate sponge base and creamy double-chocolate fudge buttercream frosting, this irresistibly decadent dessert is the perfect go-to choice. Whether baking it to enjoy at home or whipping it up for a special occasion, it's sure to be a crowd-pleaser!
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Cinnamon Cupcakes
Fragrant and sweet cinnamon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting that adds just the right amount of rich, tangy goodness. They have the best moist texture, delicately flavored with spice, and the smooth and silky frosting on top makes them even better.
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Pecan Pie Cheesecake
Pecan pie cheesecake brings together everything you love about cheesecake and pecan pie. The crisp graham cracker crust holds a creamy vanilla cheesecake filling topped with glossy caramel-coated pecans that add crunch and warmth.
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Pecan Snowball Cookies
These sweet, crunchy, buttery pecan snowball cookies are a delicious way to decorate your dessert table this holiday season! Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cookies, these snowy treats use just a handful of basic pantry staples to create a fun-shaped and eye-catching dessert that all ages will love.
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German Chocolate Cupcakes
If you're searching for the ultimate German chocolate cupcakes recipe, this one ticks all the boxes! It's a handheld version of the classic cake, featuring moist chocolate cupcake sponges topped with decadent chocolate buttercream frosting and a rich pecan coconut frosting. It's an irresistible treat for any occasion!
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Tiramisu Cookies
These delicious, coffee-flavored tiramisu cookies are the perfect after-dinner treat, dessert table addition. A delightful twist on the classic Italian dessert, this easy tiramisu cookies recipe combines espresso powder and sweet mascarpone frosting topped with cocoa powder.
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Puff Pastry Cinnamon Twists
These super flaky, sweet Puff Pastry Cinnamon Twists are incredibly simple to make and absolutely delicious! Made with 6 simple ingredients, it's a super-easy recipe. You only need a package of store-bought puff pastry, and the cinnamon twist pastry takes just minutes to make and bake.
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Coffee Brownie
This is an easy yet extremely delicious coffee brownie recipe that consists of fudge brownies decorated with light and airy coffee whipped ganache. This Coffee brownie recipe is thick, fudge, and gooey in the middle, crinkly and crispy on top with an intense chocolate taste!
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Pie Crust Cookies
Baked to golden brown perfection, these delicious buttery pie crust cookies are the best thing that can happen to leftover pie dough! In this easy four-ingredient recipe, I am sharing two different options to use leftover pie dough. It's the perfect recipe to make super-tasty, flaky cookies.
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Swedish Cardamom Cake
This easy Swedish Cardamom Cake with delicious coffee glaze is an unforgettable flavor and texture combination. This cake is a super-moist, yogurt-based pound cake with cardamom and vanilla.
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Butterscotch Cookies
Made with brown butter, these butterscotch cookies have a deeper, richer taste that brings out the caramel notes in every bite. The edges bake up beautifully crisp and chewy, the centers stay soft, and the butterscotch chips melt into little pockets of sweetness. If you love warm, comforting flavors with a hint of nostalgia, this is the cookie recipe you’ll want to bake on repeat.
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Chocolate Eclair Cake
This no-bake, easy chocolate eclair cake is an elegant dessert you can easily make from scratch using a few simple everyday ingredients! With layers of crunchy graham crackers, homemade diplomat cream, and decadent chocolate ganache to finish, it is simple enough to indulge in at home yet impressive enough to serve on special occasions.
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Coffee Cupcakes
If you love enjoying cupcakes with coffee, you will love these delectable, super-moist coffee cupcakes! This easy recipe takes moist vanilla cupcakes, adds a hint of natural coffee flavor, and finishes with a creamy coffee buttercream.
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Triple Hazelnut Tart
This triple hazelnut tart recipe is a dream for hazelnut lovers but what makes it even more special is the gold chocolate disk decoration melted on top! Contrasting layers of melt in your mouth hazelnut Pâte Sablée tartlet shell, silky hazelnut ganache, crunchy hazelnut .. a super complex dessert experience that is much easier to make than it might look!
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German Chocolate Cake
This German chocolate cake recipe is the most delicious, moist, and flavourful cake ever! It features a super-moist chocolate cake with butterscotch frosting, loaded with pecans and coconut. Beyond how beautifully the flavors blend together, it is also a remarkably easy recipe to make without any special equipment.
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Chocolate Puff Pastry
If you love chocolate as much as I do, you must try this easy chocolate puff pastry recipe! With just two main ingredients, this simple recipe takes store-bought puff pastry to the next level by rolling it and filling it with decadent chocolate chips. The result is a soft, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate pastry with a flaky outer shell and a creamy chocolate interior.
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Gingerbread Cake
This small 6-inch gingerbread Cake recipe, made from scratch without a cake mix, is moist and fluffy and tastes like Christmas in every bite.
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Eggnog Cheesecake
This eggnog cheesecake recipe with gingersnap crust will make even the ardent eggnog hater fall in love with the classic holiday drink.
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Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
These cream cheese spritz cookies are the best spritz cookie recipe ever! They’re tender, full of flavor, and so pretty when dipped in chocolate and sprinkles. A must-have for any holiday celebration!
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Mini Pecan Pie Bites
Pecan pie is a classic holiday dessert, and it's no wonder that so many people love it. The combination of melted butter and brown sugar makes any dessert taste glorious. Make them bite-sized and combine warm toasted pecans, sweet dark corn syrup, vanilla extract, and crispy phyllo shells, and you have perfectly portioned mini pecan pie bites.
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Chai Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
A twist on your traditional spice cake! Paired with vanilla bean buttercream frosting, this is an ideal choice for the holiday season.
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Persimmon Pie
Making this persimmon pie recipe is "easy as pie". Seriously! The color and creamy custard texture will remind you of a pumpkin pie. The flavor will also be similar if you add the cinnamon, but persimmons taste more like a cross between an apricot and a mango.... when ripe.
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