Desserts & Baking

A no-bake cherry cheesecake in an 8×8 dish: graham crust, cream cheese and Cool Whip filling, and cherry pie filling or a …

A soft spiced applesauce cake with walnuts and raisins, baked in a 9 x 13-inch or bundt pan, with glaze ideas and …

A five-minute sugar cookie dough rolled in sprinkles, chilled, sliced and baked, plus how to get round, even slices.

Buttery slice-and-bake shortbread with orange zest, dried cranberries and pistachios, plus the small steps that make shortbread turn out right.

A four-ingredient no-bake candy of mashed potato and powdered sugar rolled up with peanut butter, plus how to get the dough right.

Fresh apples with cinnamon and nutmeg under a homemade cake-like topping, cooked on high in the slow cooker, plus how to keep …

Sweet potato patties wrapped in crescent dough and baked in a buttery cinnamon syrup, plus how to get the sauce to thicken.

A one-bowl spiced sweet potato quick bread, plus why loaves turn out gummy and how to roast the sweet potatoes.

A cake-mix sweet potato cake with a gooey brown sugar pecan swirl and a warm glaze, plus the details that make it …

Tender sweet potato slices in a cinnamon-ginger syrup under a golden brown sugar crumble, plus how to keep the syrup thick.