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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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Pumpkins in the pumpkin patch

October Gardening: Tasks and Tips

October is the time of year for pumpkins, squash, scrunching through piles of fall leaves, and enjoying the last of the lovely weather before winter sets in. Here in Virginia, October can go either way — sometimes it stays warm, and sometimes the first frosts move in and finish off the summer vegetables. At this…

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A head of bok choy growing in my garden.

How to Grow Bok Choy

I learned how to grow bok choy through trial and error. Last fall, I noticed some beautiful heads of Chinese cabbage (napa cabbage) at our local farmer’s market. When I asked the proprietor where it was grown, I found it was grown not five miles from my house! Well, that means I could grow all…

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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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