2,089 desert recipes

Buttery, melt-on-your-tongue Mexican wedding cookies rolled in powdered sugar with crunchy pecans and vanilla. Only 6 ingredients and 30 minutes from bowl to cookie tray.

Abby's Chocolate Cake: a classic two-layer chocolate cake with sour cream for tang, frosted in cooked fluffy white seven-minute frosting. Vintage American birthday-cake territory.

Lemon prairie cake, a Southern-style pound cake with lemon-lime soda for lift and lemon extract for citrus punch. Rich, buttery, and baked in a fluted Bundt pan until golden.

Pogen's gingersnaps deliver a thin, crisp Swedish-style cookie spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves over a deep molasses base. Press into flat rounds and bake quick for snap-crisp edges.

Italian biscotti with Sambuca liqueur, toasted pine nuts, star anise, and lemon zest. Twice-baked for a crisp, crunchy cookie built for dunking in espresso.

Bourbon pecan pie with a flaky homemade crust, gooey caramel filling made with light and dark corn syrups, melted butter, and a splash of whiskey. Holiday dessert at its most classic.

Whacky cakes are the Depression-era chocolate classic reworked for a pizzelle iron: no eggs, no butter, no milk. Vinegar and baking soda do the lift. Vegan, fast, kid-friendly.

Fresh cherries preserved in grappa with sugar, sun-steeped for a week then aged 3 months. A classic Italian after-dinner treat with boozy, fruit-soaked elegance. Only 3 ingredients.

Rhubarb and banana fool made with quark, whipped egg whites, brown sugar, and preserved ginger. A light British dessert with tangy fruit and creamy cheese.

None Such mincemeat cookies: a vintage drop cookie made with crumbled prepared mincemeat folded into a simple shortening dough. Bakes 4 dozen in 12 minutes for the holiday cookie tin.

Old-fashioned molasses cookies made with lard and sour cream for a tender, flaky texture butter can't match. Spiced with cinnamon and ginger, chilled overnight, then rolled thick and soft.

This old fashioned fruit cake is a classic. Candied fruits, rum, molasses and all kinds of spices make the cake rich in flavor.

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.

Homemade fig newton bars with fresh fig filling inside a cinnamon-laced brown sugar dough, folded like a letter and baked golden. Better than store-bought.

Mile high raspberry pie with an almond shortbread crust and a frozen raspberry mousse that triples in volume during a 15-minute beat. The filling rises into a signature pink cloud above the rim.

Marguerites cookies made with fluffy meringue piled on saltine crackers and topped with chopped nuts. A vintage sweet-and-salty treat browned in the oven.