2,089 desert recipes

Brown sugar drop cookies made with buttermilk, shortening, and just seven ingredients. Soft, chewy, and caramelly with a one-hour chill and 10-minute bake.

Festive cocoa cards are large chocolate-molasses cookies cut into rectangles and decorated with frosting to look like greeting cards. A fun holiday baking project for kids and adults.

A rich, sour-cream dough is laden with poppyseeds and braided into 5-inch sticks.

Chocolate drop cookies with a hidden chunk of white chocolate baked into the center. No flour, no eggs: melted chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk and nuts make the entire dough. Fudgy, dense, surprise inside.

Chocolate peanut butter shortbread baked in a tart pan with a cocoa crust, creamy peanut butter filling, and a chocolate Kiss topped with a whole peanut on every wedge.

Nutkins are light, crispy pecan meringue cookies made with just 4 ingredients: egg whites, powdered sugar, pecans, and vanilla. Naturally gluten-free.

Three layer pumpkin pie with a spiced pumpkin filling, brown sugar pecan streusel, and a creamy vanilla cream cheese topping. Makes two showstopper pies for Thanksgiving.

Orange pecan slice-and-bake cookies with fresh orange zest, orange juice, brown sugar, and chopped pecans. A buttery icebox cookie with bright citrus flavor. Makes 4 dozen.

Thumbprint snowball cookies with walnuts, cinnamon, and lemon zest in the dough, filled with raspberry jam and dusted with powdered sugar. A festive holiday cookie.

Mini pumpkin pie cookie cups with a cream cheese pastry shell, spiced pumpkin filling with rum and vanilla, and a crunchy pecan-brown sugar topping.

Old-fashioned unleavened seed cake with caraway seeds, candied orange peel, mace, and chopped nuts. No baking powder needed, whipped egg whites provide the lift.

Make-ahead slice-and-bake hermit cookies with five warming spices, plump raisins, and buttery dough. Roll into logs, freeze, slice, and bake fresh cookies anytime.

Spice and nut thumbprint cookies with ground pecans, cinnamon, and jam filling. Buttery shortbread-style cookies with a fruity center, perfect for holiday baking.

Nut thins are crisp, buttery drop cookies loaded with chopped nuts and vanilla. A simple, vintage cookie that bakes thin and shatter-crisp at low heat. A handful of pantry ingredients, no mixer needed.

Italian Christmas cookies (Patina di Natale) studded with toasted pine nuts and brightened by lemon zest. A buttery, golden-glazed cookie-cutter classic from the holiday tables of southern Italy.

Twice-baked almond cookie shells filled with a chewy caramel-nut center. Tiny tartlet-style sweets with crisp edges and a sticky-sweet filling, baked in muffin tins for a cookie-meets-tart hybrid.