Dessert recipe collection

Oyster pudding layered with buttered saltine cracker crumbs, cream, and Worcestershire sauce, baked until crusty on top. A traditional 5-ingredient New England side dish.

Painted peach cake: cake-mix shortcut tube cake with cream cheese, sliced peaches, and red cinnamon candies baked right in. Pretty pink-flecked pound cake in under an hour.

Palm Beach pineapple squares: a chocolate walnut cake base topped with a lemon-scented pineapple layer, baked together into one tropical dessert bar.

Pan Nero, an Italian dark chocolate cake made with unsweetened chocolate, separated eggs, and potato starch flour. Dense, fudgy, and flour-light with just five ingredients.

Papaya pie with warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin pie spice in a custard-style filling. A tropical twist on pumpkin pie with a similar sweet, spiced flavor.

Paris-Brest style cream puff pastry: piped pâte à choux rings baked with slivered almonds, split and filled with pastry cream, dusted with powdered sugar. A French patisserie classic at home.

A delicious jelly made of parsley leaves, fruit pectin and lemon juice that tastes great with crackers.

Passion fruit mousse blends fresh passion fruit pulp with sweetened condensed milk, served chilled inside the emptied fruit shells with a cherry on top. Two-ingredient tropical dessert.

This passover chocolate roll takes some efforts, but it's well worth it. It comes out smooth, creamy and full of chocolate flavor, everyone will look for a second piece!

Pastelitos, little hand pies filled with mashed dried fruit, honey, and cinnamon in a flaky shortening crust. A traditional Latin American fruit turnover baked golden.

PB&O snackers: chewy peanut butter oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, warm cinnamon, and nutmeg. A hearty snack cookie that beats any coffee-shop version.

Peach blackberry compote tossed in a basil and orange-zest wine syrup. A no-cook summer dessert that lets ripe stone fruit and berries do the talking, with an herbal edge from fresh basil.

Peach cobbler topped with sharp cheddar biscuits instead of plain dough. Almond extract and lemon juice brighten the filling while the cheese adds savory crunch.

Fresh peaches macerated in white wine, port, sweet vermouth, citrus juice, and sugar. An elegant Italian-style no-cook fruit dessert served chilled in glass cups.

Peanut brittle Bavarian ring with a coffee-flavored gelatin mousse of whipped cream and egg whites over a crunchy peanut brittle base. A retro no-bake dessert with a cloud-like texture and caramel crunch.

Drop cookies loaded with peanut butter, oats, and chopped peanuts. Chewy, hearty cookies with both peanut butter and whole peanut crunch in every bite. Makes 4 dozen.