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Dessert Recipes

Our dessert recipes section features easy treats to make.

We admit it: we have a sweet tooth. Dessert is the one place where we leave healthy eating behind and indulge. Here you will find recipes for cookies, candies, and cakes, especially for the holidays. Our dessert recipes are easy, and some have been passed down for generations through the family.

a chocolate peanut cluster cookie on a saucer with a cup of coffee

Eggless Cookie Recipe – Chocolate Peanut Clusters

Butterscotch Biscotti Recipe

Yummy Peach Pie Recipe Made with Fresh Peaches

Strawberry Vanilla Yogurt Popsicle Recipe

raspberry filled muffin recipe

Raspberry Jelly Muffin Recipe

Peach Cobbler Recipe

vanilla peppermint fudge

Amazing Vanilla Peppermint Fudge Recipe

sweet potato pie

New Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

Got a Juicer? Easy Carrot Muffin Recipe Using Pulp from the Juicer!

blueberry muffin recipe

Best-Ever Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Fresh Peach Smoothie Recipe

25 Easy Apple Recipes for Fall

Christmas Cookies

Foodie Friday: Stained Glass Cookies

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A bench with a zinc pail filled with apples. On the bench, squash, apples, and gardening tools

September Gardening: Tasks & Tips

Fall is the time for mums, for pumpkins, and another round of pansies — for soft golden twilights and leaves crunching underfoot. September is the last month here in zones 6 and 7 when the garden is still lush and full. We’re harvesting the last of the tomatoes here at Seven Oaks, my farm near…

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An assassin bug, blending into the roadway

Assassin Bugs – Scary Looking, But Beneficial Insects

We meet the strangest neighbors while walking the dog. This assassin bug was strolling across the pavement on a hot summer’s evening when we walked our dog. At first, I thought it was a wolf spider, but the leg arrangement, plus the narrower body, made me decide to snap a picture and use Google Lens…

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A close up of American burnweed flowers about to bloom.

American Burnweed, the Weed That Signals Fall Is Here

I was walking my dog along the wood’s edge right near where we cleared land to build our greenhouse when I did a double take. There, like Jack’s magical beanstalk, had grown overnight this gem: American burnweed. Also known as fireweed or American burn weed, it grows rapidly – and I mean, rapidly. Like I…

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Summer squash

What Can You Make with Summer Squash?

It’s that time of year when everyon asks, “What can I make with summer squash?”. The time when neighbors sneak bags of summer squash onto porches. When farmer’s markets are brimming with yellow and green squash, zucchini, and all manner of Cucurbitaceae, the plant family that gives, and gives, until it can’t give anymore. If…

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