10,005 dessert recipes

Savory no-bake Danish blue cheese pie on a pumpernickel crumb crust, topped with fresh green grapes. A bold, tangy appetizer that doubles as an elegant cheese course.

No-bake chocolate cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, cream cheese, melted chocolate chips, and whipped cream set with gelatin. No oven needed for this rich, silky dessert.

Chilled poppy seed soup blended with yogurt, half-and-half, honey, and nutmeg. A sweet, creamy no-cook cold soup served as a unique dessert or first course.

Lemony sweet potato pie with lemon extract, lemon zest, egg yolks, and milk in an unbaked pie shell. A Southern-style custard pie with bright citrus that cuts the sweetness.

Amaretto peach cheesecake with a buttery shortbread base, peach-amaretto cream cheese filling, and a toasted almond garnish. The summery dessert that turns canned peaches into something elegant.

Raisin pecan bread pudding loaded with fruit cocktail and a vanilla-butternut custard. A nostalgic Southern bread pudding that uses up stale bread in 90 minutes.

Paradise salad: a molded lemon Jello salad with sour cream, cottage cheese, and crushed pineapple. A retro gelatin dessert-salad that chills into a creamy, tangy mold.

French toast fingers stuffed with strawberry jam, dipped in orange-egg batter, and griddled golden. A kid-friendly 10-minute breakfast that turns jam sandwiches into dunkable brunch bites with maple syrup.

Apfeltorte: German apple cake with whole peeled apples baked into a butter cake, their cores stuffed with rum-soaked raisins and chocolate. Finished with apricot glaze and powdered sugar.

Fresh apricots stuffed with almonds, soaked in rum, then dipped in cinnamon batter and deep-fried until golden for a show-stopping dessert.

Two-layer carrot cake bursting with orange marmalade, toasted walnuts, and grated carrots, finished with a citrus cream cheese frosting and a stunning lattice top.

Classic butter pound cake: rich, tender, golden loaf made the proper old-fashioned way with butter, sugar, eggs, flour and vanilla. Just five ingredients and a long, careful cream.

Classic slice-and-bake icebox cookies with buttery brown sugar dough you can make ahead and freeze for up to 2 months. Includes five flavor variations: ginger almond, lemon poppyseed, spice, coffee edged, and pecan.

Komish broit is a Jewish twice-baked cookie similar to Italian biscotti, made with matzo meal, potato starch, and chocolate chips. Crisp diagonal slices rolled in cinnamon sugar.

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Southern buttermilk meringue pie with a tangy custard filling sweetened with brown sugar, topped with light whipped meringue. A heritage pie from old Appalachian and Southern kitchens.