Dessert recipe collection

Twice-baked anise biscotti: long crisp Italian cookies flavored with star anise, perfect for dunking in espresso, vin santo, or a strong afternoon tea.

Toasted nut cookies with hazelnuts and pecans made in a food processor. Ultra-thin, crispy lace cookies that bake in just 3 to 4 minutes. A quick ice cream accompaniment.

Chewy toffee almond bars with an oat and brown sugar shortbread crust topped with a buttery caramel almond layer. A batch makes 48 bite-sized treats.

Chinese toffee-coated apples and bananas with crispy batter and caramel sesame coating. Deep-fried fruit dunked in ice water creates a shatteringly crisp candy shell.

Best cheesecake ever, wonderful mix of flavours with the ginger crust and caramel.

Toffee ice cream pie with a cinnamon chocolate-cookie crust, layers of coffee-toffee-crunch ice cream, and a rich espresso ganache sauce. Make-ahead frozen dessert that holds for two weeks.

Toffee squares with a buttery brown sugar shortbread base, melted chocolate on top, and chopped nuts. A sheet pan cookie bar that's rich, crunchy, and easy to make.

Tofu fruit pudding blends silken firm tofu with frozen berries and honey for a creamy dairy-free dessert. Three ingredients, ready in 10 minutes plus chill time.

Tomato and basil puff pastry tarts with vine-ripened slices over a thick tomato coulis. Shatteringly crisp pastry, no soggy bottoms, six individual rounds.

Torta di nocciole: Italian hazelnut cake made with toasted ground hazelnuts and barely any flour, topped with soft whipped cream. A light, elegant Piedmontese dessert with intense nut flavor.

Torta Divina is a rich Italian flourless chocolate cake laced with Cointreau, baked in a water bath, and finished with whipped cream and fresh raspberries. Gluten-free by nature.

Saltine cracker torte folds crushed soda crackers and walnuts into stiffly beaten egg whites for a flourless meringue-style dessert topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup.

Chocolate torte sweetened with fruit-based concentrates instead of refined sugar, layered with cream cheese filling and whipped cream, topped with sliced strawberries.

Classic English trifle with raspberry-jam-soaked sponge cake, brandy, sherry, silky vanilla custard, and whipped cream. A showstopping layered dessert served in a glass bowl for maximum visual drama.

Trinidadian sugar cakes are chewy Caribbean coconut candies cooked in sugar syrup and tinted pink. A traditional street-fair sweet from Trinidad and Tobago.

Pick any three berries, simmer them in blackberry wine with orange zest, then drop a buttery biscuit topping on top and bake until golden. A warm, bubbling berry cobbler begging for a scoop of ice cream.