Salted Chocolate Sugar Cookies

A few specks of gourmet salt on top of velvety, creamy chocolate elevates simple sugar cookies to delicious works of art. If you like a more substantial treat, simply sandwich the chocolate between two cookies.

Apricot Sugar Plum Cookies

No-bake cookies that store for a few weeks are like gold during the entertaining season. Treat these pretty sugar-rolled cookies like truffles and serve them in place of dessert with after-dinner coffee or tea.

Sugar-Free Cranberry Pistachio Icebox Cookies

Dried cranberries preclude the need for sugar in these tender, biscuitlike cookies, which are also flecked with green pistachios for a festive look.

Stained Glass Cutout Brown Sugar Cookies

Brown sugar cookies are elevated with crushed hard candies that add a wow factor. Try our Stained Glass Cutout Cookies—they're just as pretty and delicious.

Brown Sugar Cheesecake with Caramel Apples

Apple, brown sugar and cinnamon come together in this autumn dessert. If the topping is made ahead, the pectin in the apples will make it thicken when cooled, so rewarm to liquefy before serving.

Steamed Pumpkin Pudding with a Brown Sugar Sauce

With all the flavours of pumpkin pie, this moist pudding, served warm with a gooey brown sugar sauce, is a true crowd-pleaser. Steaming is easier than you think!

Polka-Dot Lemon Sugar Cookies

Spring-themed sugar cookies (such as bunny, carrot, duck, egg and butterfly shapes) welcome the season. Paste food colouring works best for creating pastel hues. Go for multicoloured polka-dots or choose just one colour and white. You'll need many piping bags, but if you have only one, use plastic sandwich bags, cutting away a corner tip of each to pipe through.

No-Sugar Sugar Cookies

Sugar Pie

Tarte au sucre is a typical Quebec recipe you will find on the menu at L'Échaudé in Quebec City. Slim wedges, attractively garnished with fresh fruit and a swish of crème anglaise, intrigue visitors and satisfy locals who cherish memories of their mothers' versions.

Sugar Cookies

Baking cookies is the perfect way to get the family together in the kitchen. With this easy dough, it takes no time to cut the cookies into festive shapes and decorate as desired.