Dessert recipe collection

Old-fashioned icebox cookies with cardamom, cinnamon, lemon juice, and chopped nuts. Slice-and-bake dough that refrigerates overnight or freezes for weeks. Paper-thin and crispy.

Grapefruit mousse: light citrus mousse with grapefruit juice, gin-spiked gelatin, and whipped cream. Layered in parfait glasses with fresh strawberries.

This traditional British Christmas pudding steams for hours with brandy-soaked fruits, warm spices, and breadcrumbs, then blazes to the table in flaming glory.

No-bake Hawaiian refrigerator cake with ladyfingers, sweetened condensed milk, crushed pineapple, marshmallows, and whipped topping. Sets overnight in a springform pan.

A rich and delicious treat! The quick and easy filling is made in the microwave.

Impossible chocolate cheesecake forms its own crust as it bakes thanks to Bisquick mixed right into the batter. Coffee liqueur, almond extract, and a sour cream chocolate topping make it bakery-worthy.

Irish Christmas cake soaked in whiskey with dried fruits, almonds, candied orange peel, and a marzipan coating. A rich, dense celebration cake that starts with an overnight whiskey fruit soak.

Kahlua fantasy chocolate cheesecake layers a buttery chocolate wafer crust under a silky filling of cream cheese, sour cream, melted semi-sweet chocolate, and Kahlua coffee liqueur. Boozy, dense, and luxurious.

Kekstorte is a classic German no-bake cookie cake layering crisp butter cookies with rum-spiked cocoa-coconut cream, chilled overnight in a loaf pan until sliceable and rich.

Kolaches (kolacky) made with a tender cottage cheese and butter dough, filled with pineapple or apricot filling, and dusted with powdered sugar. A Czech pastry classic.

Cranberry cheesecake studded with tart cranberries and orange zest, set on a graham cracker base. A holiday dessert that skips the springform pan and bakes in a simple pie plate.

Kurant vodka cheesecake baked in a water bath with a graham cracker-almond crust, topped with fresh strawberries glazed in strawberry jelly spiked with more Kurant vodka. A showstopper dessert.

Kutia, a traditional Polish Christmas pudding made with wheat berries, ground poppy seeds, honey, walnuts, almonds, figs, dates, and rum-soaked currants. A treasured holiday dessert.

Southern lemon pecan fruitcake with candied pineapple and cherries. A lighter, brighter alternative to dark rum fruitcake, loaded with nuts and citrus.

Almond cheesecake with vanilla wafer and chopped almond crust, almond-scented cream cheese filling, and sour cream topping, finished with toasted sliced almonds.

Macedoine of fresh fruit marinated in rum and orange juice with oranges, apples, pears, bananas, raspberries, and walnuts. An elegant French fruit dessert.