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Pumpkin Muffin like Starbucks if you add the cream cheese

Classic French creme patissiere made with egg yolks, sugar, milk, and vanilla. The essential pastry cream for tarts, eclairs, cream puffs, and fruit desserts.

Butter-sautéed bananas in an apricot-orange sauce, flambéed tableside with rum or brandy. A dramatic 20-minute French dessert served over ice cream or with whipped cream.

Low-fat cheesecake made with overnight-strained yogurt and blended cottage cheese instead of cream cheese. Dense, silky, and tangy on a graham cracker crust with no cream cheese at all.

Sliced bananas bake with citrus juices, brown sugar, and toasted coconut in this quick West African dessert that's incredible with vanilla ice cream.

This chicken and rice casserole is full of cheese and creamy goodness. This dish becomes a gluten-free main dish if you use a gluten-free cream of chicken soup, gluten-free sour cream and gluten-free bouillon.

Chocolate torte sweetened with fruit-based concentrates instead of refined sugar, layered with cream cheese filling and whipped cream, topped with sliced strawberries.

Classic choux pastry profiteroles made with just 4 ingredients: water, butter, flour, and eggs. Light, hollow puffs ready to fill with cream, ice cream, or custard.

Fresh fruit soup blends rose wine, cranberry juice, and a touch of cornstarch into a chilled Scandinavian-style fruit soup loaded with seasonal fresh fruit. Serve with sour cream or whipped cream.

Elegant French pastry with puff pastry, vanilla pastry cream, and glazed apricot halves resembling sunny-side eggs. A playful Michel Richard classic.

Three-ingredient chocolate cookie crumb pie shell with butter and sugar. The fast, no-roll crust for cream pies, ice cream pies, and chilled desserts. Ready in 20 minutes.

You don’t need an ice cream maker to make this, but you do need a food processor. I use a banana and a small amount of honey to sweeten the yogurt. (See the banana-only variation on this recipe below.) You can serve it like soft-serve ice cream, or let it freeze solid so that it’s more like regular frozen yogurt.

Light tortoni frozen dessert made with whipped nonfat dry milk, almond extract, and graham cracker crumbs. A low-fat Italian-style ice cream treat with no heavy cream needed.

Homemade hot fudge sauce with unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate, butter, corn syrup, and vanilla. A thick, glossy ice cream topping ready in 20 minutes.

Apple pierogi filling: grated fresh apples with cinnamon and sugar. Traditional Polish dessert pierogi served with sour cream, buttered crumbs, and a final cinnamon dust.

Italian coffee spiked with amaretto, topped with whipped cream and a cherry. One-minute adult coffee drink for dessert or after-dinner sipping.