Goose recipes

No-bake Chinese cookies made with crunchy chow mein noodles, mini marshmallows, butterscotch chips, and peanut butter. Four ingredients, ready in 20 minutes, no oven required.

Final exam brownies pile fudgy chocolate batter with marshmallows, nuts, chocolate chips, and colorful M&M's. The over-the-top dorm-room treat for stressful study sessions.

Pecan crescents, buttery melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies rich with finely chopped pecans and a hint of nutmeg, shaped into little crescents. A cornstarch-tender holiday cookie in the wedding-cookie family.

Mocha crumb cake built on a boxed cake mix spiked with cold coffee and warm spices, finished with a broiled brown sugar granola topping. A quick-to-mix sheet cake with bakery-style crunch.

Frozen toffee butter torte with a chocolate-ganache center, crushed Heath bar crust and crown, and whipped butter-brown sugar filling. An elegant no-bake make-ahead dessert.

Old-fashioned Canadian jam jam cookies: oatmeal and brown sugar rounds sandwiched around a homemade date filling. A prairie-farmhouse classic with a soft, chewy bite.

Buttermilk lemon pudding cake separates as it bakes into two layers: an airy sponge on top and a tangy lemon custard pooled underneath. Tart, light, and self-saucing, baked in individual ramekins in a water bath.

Panforte is the dense, chewy Sienese Christmas cake packed with toasted hazelnuts and almonds, dates, cherries, cocoa, and warm spices, bound by hot honey caramel. A traditional Italian holiday confection.

Honey lemon sponge cake is a take on Japanese castella (kasutera): a tall, springy, honey-sweetened sponge brightened with lemon. Whipped eggs alone give it lift, no butter needed, for a delicate, fine-grained crumb.

Frosted ginger cookies with deep molasses warmth, soft pillowy centers, and a sweet frosting finish. Classic drop-cookie method delivers tender bakery-style rounds every time.

Lattice-topped raspberry pie with a glossy, pre-cooked filling that sets up sliceable, never runny. Heaps of raspberries thickened with cornstarch under a golden woven crust. A blue-ribbon berry pie.

Zimtsterne are German cinnamon star cookies: a chewy ground-almond and cinnamon dough crowned with a crisp white meringue glaze. Naturally gluten-free and a staple of the German Christmas cookie tin.

Lemonade wafers: crisp, egg-free drop cookies bright with fresh lemon zest and juice, optional coconut topping. Light, sunny cookie that tastes like summer in a single bite.

Homemade funnel cake fried crisp and golden, then dusted with powdered sugar. The classic carnival treat made from pantry staples, swirled straight from a funnel into hot oil.

Indian Figlets are spiced drop cookies loaded with softened figs, warm cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg, brightened with lemon zest. A chewy throwback cookie with bakery depth.

Sugar-free peach shortcake with juicy fresh peaches under a tender almond-cinnamon cake, then flipped to show off a glossy fruit top. Light dessert sweetened without refined sugar.