839 desert recipes

Hazelnut chocolate toffee layers crunchy buttery brown-sugar candy with toasted hazelnuts and a melted-on chocolate chip topping. Holiday gift candy that breaks into rough shards.

Old-school chocolate chip cookies built on shortening and brown sugar for crisp edges and chewy middles, studded with semi-sweet chips and toasted pecans. A throwback recipe from the original Crisco era.

Chocolate chip cherry drop cookies with cream cheese in the dough, maraschino cherries, and a half-cherry crown on each cookie. Holiday-bright bite-sized treats.

Apple dump cake layers canned apple pie filling under a butter pecan cake mix and chopped pecans, topped with sliced butter. No mixing required, five-ingredient dessert.

Mock pavlova is a sugar-free Aussie meringue dessert using artificial sweetener. Crisp shell, marshmallow heart, and fresh kiwi slices, all under 100 calories per portion.

Peanut butter and jam coffee cake made with Bisquick: tender crumb, marbled jam streaks, ready in under an hour. PB&J in cake form.

Santa Claus cookies decorate flat sugar cookies with red sugar caps, miniature marshmallow tassels, currant eyes, cinnamon candy noses, and coconut beards. A festive holiday craft cookie kids can help build from baked rounds.

Easy chocolate turtle pie: graham cracker crust layered with caramel, pecans, fudge pudding, and whipped topping. A no-bake five-ingredient dessert for busy weeknights.

Kolachkes are Polish-American cream cheese cookies: a tender butter-and-cream-cheese dough wrapped around fruit jam, walnut, or sweet cheese filling. Rolled in powdered sugar instead of flour.

Sauteed plantains pan-fry ripe yellow plantains in canola oil until golden and caramelized. Three ingredients, ten minutes, the simplest Caribbean side.

Apple nut cake built on applesauce and olive oil with overlapping apple slices and a toasted cinnamon-sugar nut topping. A dairy-free, butter-free autumn cake that bakes into something moist, rustic and crowd-ready.

Snickers pie assembly with fudge filling, chopped candy bars, cream cheese layer and milk chocolate drizzle. Decadent triple-layer chocolate pie finished cold.

Strawberry ice cream pie with a spiced shortbread crust and a swirl of warm fudge topping. Make-ahead frozen dessert that comes together in under 30 minutes.

Turtle shells are a novelty edible-insect snack: cooked cicadas dipped in warm chocolate glaze and cooled into crunchy, chocolate-topped morsels. A bold entry into entomophagy for the adventurous.

Viennese baked apples are stovetop-simmered apples stuffed with raspberry jam, walnuts, and orange zest, then broiler-glazed with sugar. A classic Austrian cafe dessert.

Praline macaroons from Mississippi: chewy meringue cookies built on whipped egg whites, brown sugar, and toasted pecans, each one crowned with a whole pecan half. Crisp shell, soft center, pure Southern bakery counter.