10,266 dessert recipes

Bourekakia - Greek honey nut rolls in phyllo dough with cinnamon, orange zest, and a hot honey-lemon syrup. Crispy, buttery pastry spirals soaked in sweet syrup like baklava.

Yeasted anise biscotti from Genoa, made with a sponge starter for a lighter, bread-like crumb. Twice-baked with butter and aniseed, these are nothing like ordinary biscotti.

A moist chocolate date cake baked in an 8-inch square pan with chocolate chips in the batter and a crunchy chip-nut-sugar topping. Dates softened in boiling water keep it impossibly tender. The kind of no-fuss cake you carry straight to the picnic in the pan.

Creamy homemade cornstarch pudding from scratch with butter and vanilla. Includes variations for chocolate, banana, and butterscotch pudding. One base recipe, four desserts.

Pineapple pound cake uses frozen pineapple juice concentrate as the main sweetener for a no-added-sugar loaf with tropical citrus flavor. Seven-ingredient pantry cake.

Pumpkin-apple pie with a spiced brown sugar apple layer on the bottom and creamy pumpkin custard on top. Two fall pies in one, baked in a single crust.

Self-saucing sticky toffee pudding, a date-studded muscovado sponge that creates its own rich toffee sauce underneath as it bakes. Spoon it warm over vanilla ice cream or pouring cream.

Simple cookie bars with a cake-like base topped with fruit pie filling and powdered sugar. A vintage sheet pan dessert that feeds a crowd with minimal effort using canned filling.

Turtle swirl cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust with semi-sweet chocolate ribbons, butterscotch drizzle, and toasted pecans. Marbled, dense, and unapologetically rich.

Brown sugar blondies loaded with butterscotch chips and chopped nuts. No cocoa, all caramel and vanilla. The butterscotch cousin to classic chocolate brownies.

Tender sour cream sheet cake with black walnut flavoring, topped with a quick-cook caramel frosting loaded with chopped nuts. One pan, one hour, and a frosting that comes together on the stovetop.

This cake won me First Prize at the county fair last year. It is very chocolaty.

This is one of those "ooooof!" cakes. Between the chocolate ganache and the chocolate mousse filling you might break out in some butter sweats, but it is very worth it. The cake is fluffy and moist, the mousse cool and airy, and the ganache smooth and creamy. A great show off cake for special occasions. Best of all, really easy to make!

Sliced apples layered with cinnamon sugar get topped with a simple cake batter that bakes into a tender crust for an effortless dessert that's halfway between apple crisp and cake.

Thai-style bananas simmered in sweetened coconut milk with a pinch of salt. A 4-ingredient dessert that doubles as a hot or cold treat, ready in 25 minutes.

Banana chocolate marble cake swirls melted semi-sweet chocolate into a moist sour cream banana batter, finished with a glossy orange-scented chocolate ganache.