Dessert recipe collection

Eggless bread pudding with crushed pineapple, raisins, and a rum-brown sugar glaze topped with sliced almonds. Lighter than traditional custard-based versions.

Pineapple-walnut dip: creamed cottage cheese and sour cream blended with crushed pineapple, toasted walnuts, and lemon. A versatile sweet-savory dip for fruit, cookies, or chicken.

Pinto bean fudge blends strained beans with chocolate chips, marshmallows, and nuts for a surprisingly creamy candy. No one will guess the secret ingredient.

Pistachio ambrosia salad mixes canned fruit cocktail, pineapple and mandarin oranges with pistachio pudding, sour cream and whipped topping. A retro potluck dessert in every shade of green.

Cranberries and pistachios are the complementary flavors of this cookie recipe submitted by Jane Bortz of Beaver Dam.

A delicious dessert made with whipped topping, crushed pineapple and chopped walnuts.

Pomegranate Ariel with jewel-toned pomegranate seeds, currants, and slivered almonds under a blended papaya-orange sauce. A no-cook tropical fruit dessert served in goblets.

Porcupine quills are vintage no-flour cookies made with dates, walnuts, brown sugar, and egg whites, rolled in flaked coconut. Chewy, sweet, and naturally gluten-free.

Potato fudge uses mashed potatoes as the secret binder in a chocolate candy rolled in coconut or walnuts. A Depression-era confection that works better than it has any right to.

Made without butter, and with cocoa powder instead of chocolate, the cake is like a souffle that rises, then sinks as it cools.

Enhanced prune filling for hamantaschen with chopped raisins, nuts, lemon juice, and nutmeg. A quick upgrade to jarred filling that takes 5 minutes.

Dessert crepes filled with vanilla pudding and whipped cream, topped with fresh sliced strawberries. A no-bake shortcut dessert ready in 15 minutes using instant pudding mix.

This lemony pumpkin-flavored dessert is low-fat, airy, and souffle-like because it's made with only the beaten whites of the egg. The cake puffs in the steamer and then deflates slightly as it stands.

No-bake pumpkin crunch cream pie with vanilla pudding folded into pumpkin, slivered almonds, and chocolate chips, all in a graham cracker crust. Easy holiday dessert with chocolate-pumpkin twist.

No-bake pumpkin patch pie with orange sherbet, whipped topping, and chopped Oreos in a chocolate cookie crust. A frozen Halloween dessert kids decorate themselves with candy pumpkins.

Quebec apple dumplings wrap whole apples in cheddar pastry, each cored and stuffed with rum-spiked mincemeat. Brushed with a brown sugar and lemon cream glaze, baked golden, and served warm with rum cream.