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Home » Cook » Desserts and Baking

Dessert Recipes

Discover your new favorite dessert recipes! Made from scratch with seasonal fresh fruits, edible flowers and herbs, and real ingredients, these sweet treats will be baked in your kitchen again and again.

From cookies and cake, to muffins and bars, even fruity cobblers, crisps, and galettes you will find sure-to-impress dessert recipes like Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies, Blueberry Cornmeal Skillet Cake, Lemon and Rosemary Shortbread, and Calendula and Thyme Shortbread.

Dandelion bread, partially sliced.

Dandelion Bread With Honey Lemon Glaze

Dandelions are a symbol of warm intentions, popping up each spring to showcase their resilience while letting us know that sunnier days are ahead. Make dandelion bread with their sweet honey-tasting petals and a bright lemon glaze for a taste of comfort as spring warms you! Foraged Comfort Food Sometimes, all we need to feel…

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A red and white baking dish with rhubarb strawberry crisp with a serving spoon in it, surrounded by strawberries and oatmeal.

Easy Rhubarb and Strawberry Crisp

This rhubarb and strawberry crisp is easy to make and is a treat for spring or early summer gatherings. Tart rhubarb pairs perfectly with sweet strawberries topped with crispy sweetened oatmeal in this delicious dessert. Rhubarb and Strawberry: A Perfect Pair Strawberry and rhubarb have long been a perfect pair. They’re both ripe during spring…

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Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf with Lemon Glaze

This lemon poppy seed loaf is sweet and tangy, with flavor to brighten your winter day! A citrus season gem, this delicious treat is filled with poppy seeds and topped with lemon glaze. A glazed lemon loaf is perfect for breakfast, tea time, or even a dessert! Lemon and Poppy Seeds: A Perfect Pair There’s…

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Tree shaped sugar cookies with pine needles and icing on top, on a wood surface.

Pine Needle Cookies

These pine needle cookies are shaped like trees and made with real pine needles for a fresh winter flavor. Perfect for holiday or winter celebrations, these sugar cookies are a wonderful way to use foraged pine needles and share your love of nature! Edible Pine Needles for Winter Pine needles are edible and have medicinal…

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A fruit cake half-wrapped in brown parchment and tied with red and white string, on a cooling rack resting on a cutting board. Surrounded by string and other holiday decorations.

Old Fashioned Fruit Cake Loaf (with Rum Option)

This fruit cake loaf recipe is full of nostalgia, history, a combination of real and candied fruit, and (optional) rum! Rich with flavor and the best cake lore you can find, get in the spirit this holiday season as this aged cake gets you buzzing with cheer! Factual Fruit Cake Lore Fruit cake has a…

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Acorn flour cookies in the shape of leaves, squirrels, and acorns on a natural white cloth surrounded by fall leaves and a bowl of acorn flour.

Acorn Flour Cookies

Acorn flour has a delicious roasted nutty flavor and is edible as well as nutritious. Flour from acorns gives a unique taste to this recipe for acorn cookies, and is a great way to use foraged acorns! Flour From Acorns Acorn flour is edible, nutritious, and delicious. It has a nutty and roasted flavor, similar…

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A bag of frozen apple pie filling on a wood surface surrounded by fresh whole apples. Top View.

Freezer Apple Pie Filling

Making freezer apple pie filling is a great way to preserve apples during apple season. Even better, freezing apple pie filling is a great way to make a quick pie whenever you want it and be prepared for the holidays! Plan Your Pie Apple pie filling with brown sugar and cinnamon has an old-fashioned and…

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A slice of pumpkin cornbread that is orange in color, on a wooden plate topped with maple butter. With a side dish of maple butter, a pumpkin towel, and 2 cinnamon sticks in the foreground.

Pumpkin Cornbread with Maple Butter

This pumpkin cornbread is a warm ode to fall that pairs perfectly with autumn comfort food. Super easy to make in a skillet and topped with maple butter, eat this tasty pumpkin cornbread as a side or snack all season! Cornbread with Pumpkin for Fall We all know that cornbread is a perfect and delicious…

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A piece of apple cinnamon cake on a white plate with whole cinnamon sticks on the plate too. Side view, with whole apples in the background.

Grandma’s Apple Cinnamon Cake

Grandma’s apple cinnamon cake is a favorite and beloved recipe from my Grandma Grace, also known as G.G. An apple season delight made with fresh apples and warming cinnamon, this easy apple cake is as delicious as it is nostalgic, straight from my Grandma’s kitchen! Apple Picking Season Whether you have your own apple trees…

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A stack of pumpkin coconut butter cups on a white plate with a pumpkin in the background.

No Bake Pumpkin Coconut Cups

These no-bake pumpkin coconut cups are an easy-to-make fall snack or treat. If you’re looking for healthy pumpkin recipes with real food ingredients, these pumpkin cups are perfect! Made with a homemade coconut butter recipe, these fall treats are vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, and delicious! Healthy Pumpkin Treats I love pumpkin season! I know, it seems…

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