Dessert recipe collection

Easy chocolate fudge with sweetened condensed milk, no candy thermometer needed and no boiling sugar to watch. Five ingredients, one double boiler, ready to chill in 10 minutes.

Lighter chocolate cheesecake with a chocolate wafer and Grape-Nuts crust. Cottage cheese blended smooth with cream cheese, melted chocolate, espresso, and cocoa for triple chocolate richness.

Eccles cakes pack currants, mixed peel and warming spice inside flaky rough puff pastry, glazed with milk and crunchy caster sugar. Classic Lancashire teatime pastry from northwest England.

Edible aquarium dessert cups with blue gelatin and suspended gummy fish. A playful, kid-friendly no-bake treat that comes together in minutes.

A decadent dessert with a lovely french presentation. Egg white puffs shaped into quenelles topped with caramel and seasonal fruit. Guaranteed to wow any guests.

Egg yolk shortbread bakes a richer-than-classic Scottish biscuit with butter, sugar, flour, and a single yolk for extra tenderness and golden color. Fork-marked, two-stage baked for delicate crisp edges.

Old-fashioned egg-yolk cookies with six rich yolks, lemon and vanilla extracts, rolled in sugar before baking. Tender shortbread-style cookies that use up leftover yolks from angel food cake.

Emily's white cake is a tender, snow-white shortening-based layer cake from the early 1900s, leavened with stiff egg whites for fluff. The dairy-free vintage classic for birthdays and baptisms.

Empanadas de fruta filled with spiced dried fruit, raisins, pine nuts, and warm cinnamon-clove-nutmeg filling, deep-fried in a flaky homemade dough until golden and crispy.

Sweet potato and pineapple empanadas in a flaky cream cheese pastry with shredded coconut. Tropical dessert turnovers baked until golden brown.

English trifle with sherry-soaked angel food cake, raspberry jam, raspberry jello, and creamy vanilla pudding. A festive, make-ahead holiday dessert layered in a glass bowl.

Waffle iron drop cookies: a chocolate cocoa cookie dough baked in 2 to 3 minutes in a waffle iron instead of an oven. Crisp, patterned, and ready faster than preheating.

Sugar-free diabetic-friendly white layer cake with almond extract, whipped egg whites, and skim milk. Light and fluffy two-layer cake made with artificial sweetener instead of sugar.

Fanky (faworki) are Polish deep-fried pastry diamonds made with egg yolks, sour cream, wine, and butter, dusted with powdered sugar. Thin, crispy, and addictive.

Microwave dark chocolate fudge made with corn syrup, evaporated milk, chocolate chips, walnuts, and powdered sugar. No candy thermometer, no soft-ball stage, just 3 minutes in the microwave to creamy fudge.

Fat-free cheesecake with nonfat cream cheese, egg whites, sugar, and vanilla on a graham cracker crust. Just 5 ingredients and 30 minutes of baking for a guilt-free dessert.