839 desert recipes

Classic snickerdoodle cookies: tender soft cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar, with the signature cream of tartar tang. Yields five dozen for the cookie tin.

No-bake coconut mocha drops with toasted coconut, instant coffee, and powdered sugar microwaved into rich little candies. Five-ingredient bite-sized treats ready in 25 minutes.

Malt shoppe pie blends frozen vanilla yogurt with whipped topping and crushed Whoppers in a chocolate cookie crust. A 4-ingredient frozen pie that tastes like an old-fashioned malt shop classic.

Meringues aux noix: light, low-calorie nut meringue cookies with chopped hazelnuts, honey, and amaretto. Crisp, airy French-style cookies that crackle and dissolve.

Jam tarts press tender cream cheese pastry around dollops of fruit jam for bite-size, flaky tea-time pastries with golden browned edges. A 7-ingredient throwback for the cookie tin.

Easy orange chiffon cake uses an angel food cake mix as a shortcut to a fluffy, citrus-bright chiffon. Folded with whipped egg whites, fresh orange zest, and oil for that classic light-as-air texture.

Creamy lemonade pie folds frozen lemonade concentrate, instant vanilla pudding, and whipped topping into a graham cracker crust. No-bake, freezer-friendly, tart-sweet summer dessert.

Elephant ears with pecan filling: puff pastry rolled with cinnamon-cardamom-pecan filling, sliced and baked into butterfly-shaped pastries. Bakery-style breakfast treat at home.

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

Pineapple Dream: light no-bake dessert mousse with pureed pineapple and cottage cheese set with gelatin, topped with toasted coconut. Tropical-tasting low-calorie treat for eight.

Easy chocolate mint brownies built on cookie mix, melted semisweet chips, and cream-filled chocolate mints melted right onto the hot pan for a glossy mint frosting. From mixer to platter in under an hour.

Checkerboard cookies made easy with a fudge marble cake mix: build a black-and-white checkerboard from vanilla and chocolate dough strips, chill, slice and bake. A showy slice-and-bake cookie without the fuss.

Penny sous are handmade peanut butter ganache truffles dipped in tempered chocolate and topped with a single toasted peanut. Four-ingredient chocolatier-level dessert.

Halloween spiderweb cookies decorate sugar cookies with white flooded icing and black piped concentric circles, then drag a toothpick to create perfect web patterns. Show-stopping party cookies for kids and adults.

Irish curd cake: a traditional sieved cottage cheese cheesecake in a shortbread crust with lemon zest and a sugar-butter glaze. Light alternative to heavy American cheesecake.

Tomato and basil puff pastry tarts with vine-ripened slices over a thick tomato coulis. Shatteringly crisp pastry, no soggy bottoms, six individual rounds.