10,005 dessert recipes

Moist banana cake made with ripe mashed bananas, buttermilk, and chopped walnuts, finished with buttercream frosting. The best use for those overripe bananas on your counter.

Milky Way layer cake melts eight candy bars with butter into a chocolate-caramel-nougat batter for a moist Southern celebration cake. Tender crumb, rich frosting-friendly base, layered or sheet style.

Hidden treasure chocolate chip cookies made with graham cracker crumbs, coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and semi-sweet chips. Tastes like a magic bar in cookie form.

Dense, fudgy chocolate pecan cake spiked with Irish cream liqueur and espresso, crowned with a glossy chocolate glaze and chocolate-dipped pecans. A showstopper for 10.

Macadamia nut tartlets in a buttery shortbread cup with dark corn syrup filling and a nut half on top. Two-bite pecan pie energy with a tropical, buttery nut twist.

Three-ingredient dump cake with any canned or fresh fruit, dry cake mix, and butter for an effortless cobbler-style dessert that bakes into golden magic.

Tender cream cheese cookies wrapped around walnut halves and dusted in powdered sugar. Just 5 ingredients, melt-in-your-mouth rich. Makes 2 dozen elegant bon bons.

Easy fig pie made by crumbling fig cookies into vanilla pudding with molasses and warm spices. Poured into a pie shell and topped with whipped cream. No fresh figs needed.

Hobo bread is an old-fashioned raisin quick bread that starts with an overnight soak of raisins in baking soda and boiling water. Dense, moist, and easily turned into a fruitcake.

A rich, fudgy steamed chocolate pudding made with semi-sweet chocolate and pecans, served warm with a fresh raspberry-liqueur sauce. An elegant make-ahead dessert for special occasions.

Raspberry-filled apricot cake uses apricot nectar in a doctored yellow cake mix, layered with raspberry jam and apricot whipped frosting. Toasted coconut tops this four-layer stunner.

Pear and anise skillet tart with caramelized sugar, fresh pears arranged spoke-fashion, and a lemon-anise pastry crust baked on top then flipped. A tarte tatin-style dessert with warm licorice notes.

Chewy oatmeal cookies packed with dates, apples, raisins, and pecans, naturally sweetened by simmered fruit. These keep for days in the fridge and make grab-and-go snacks.

Chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with brown sugar, butter, and rolled oats. Just 9 ingredients and ready in about 20 minutes from bowl to cooling rack.

Slice-and-bake chocolate icebox cookies rolled in chopped pecans and topped with melted milk chocolate. Make the dough ahead, chill overnight, and bake 8 dozen in minutes.

Light-as-air meringue cookies studded with mini chocolate chips. Just five ingredients, virtually fat-free, and they melt on your tongue. Makes 36 cookies.