10,000 desert recipes

Sour cream chocolate layer cake with a tangy, moist crumb and a rich sour cream chocolate frosting. Old-school bakery flavor from a one-bowl batter.

Layered banana split ice cream cake with strawberry, vanilla-pineapple, and chocolate ice cream layers, homemade chocolate sauce, and fresh strawberry sauce. Serves 12.

Buche de Marrons au Chocolat, a French chestnut and chocolate log (no-bake variation of buche de Noel) with Calvados, wrapped in whipped cream bark and garnished with candied violets. A show-stopping Christmas dessert.

Oven-baked fruit compote of dried apricots, apples, peaches, and raisins slow-cooked with honey, fresh lemon, and orange slices. Serve warm or chilled as a naturally sweet dessert.

Frozen pumpkin mousse ice cream pie layered over vanilla ice cream in a buttery gingersnap crust, finished with caramel-pumpkin topping. A make-ahead Thanksgiving dessert.

Crunchy Italian-style biscotti made with coarse yellow cornmeal, toasted almonds, anise liqueur, and aniseed. Twice-baked for that signature snap, built for dunking in espresso or Vin Santo.

Chocolate hazelnut raspberry thumbprints: chocolate-cocoa cookies rolled with ground toasted hazelnuts, indented and filled with raspberry jam. Three dozen elegant holiday cookies.

Just like it's title, easy, pretty and loaded with mint and chocolate.

Grand slam cheesecake is a no-bake lemon Jello cheesecake folded with whipped evaporated milk and pressed into a graham cracker crust. Light, fluffy, and a vintage potluck favorite from the 1960s.

Caraway ring cake with cinnamon batter and a cinnamon cream glaze. Five eggs separated for a light, tender crumb, baked in a tube pan. A British teatime classic.

Surprise the kids after dinner with this scrumptious chocolate cake that doesn't take much to make.

Hungarian cheesecake with sieved cottage cheese, sour cream, and lemon zest in a homemade pastry crust, layered with pineapple and raisins. A European-style baked cheesecake.

Old-fashioned sour cream cookies with nutmeg, rolled and cut into rounds with a sugar-sprinkled top. Soft, tender, and lightly spiced with a big-batch yield of 60 cookies.

Old-fashioned chocolate cream pie with cocoa, milk, and egg yolk custard cooked in a double boiler. The Grandma classic with deep chocolate flavor and silky pudding texture.

Three-ingredient no-bake butterscotch drops made with melted butterscotch chips, salted peanuts, and crunchy chow mein noodles. Salty, sweet, and crunchy little clusters that take 5 minutes to make.

British-style lemon drizzle cake with a crunchy sugar and fresh lemon juice topping. A simple one-bowl sponge baked in a round tin with bright citrus flavor.