High altitude desserts

More than 45 of the best high altitude Christmas cookies and candy recipes, including shortbread, biscotti, drop cookies and cutout cookies.

As the holiday season approaches, you may be planning on baking pies, cakes and cookies. But as you may have discovered, baking at higher altitudes like…

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Cakes, pies and tarts are classic dishes for holidays and birthdays. The perfect crumby cake and gooey apple pie make all the effort worth it.

High altitude baking requires adjustments due to lower air pressure. Make sure your recipes are perfect with our easy to use guide!

A high altitude recipe for soft raspberry thumbprint sugar cookies, with a soft and chewy sugar coated cookie and sweet raspberry jam filling.

An easy, moist and fluffy high altitude chocolate cake recipe, perfected for mountain bakers, with rich, fluffy chocolate buttercream.

Dutch-processed cocoa powder gives these double chocolate muffins rich color and deep chocolate flavor, and sour cream keeps them so moist!

These soft and gooey s'mores chocolate chip cookie bars have Biscoff cookie dough, marshmallow fluff, graham crackers and chocolate chips.

High-altitude baking can be a real challenge. I'm happy to share my go-to chocolate cake recipe, a no-fail recipe at 9,000 feet. Enjoy!