Dessert recipe collection

No-bake fruit balls made with cherries, dates, walnuts, and coconut ground together and rolled in sugar. A quick, old-fashioned confection with natural sweetness.

Thus fruit rolls are always welcomed in any place!

No-bake fruit and nut energy balls with dates, raisins, walnuts, sunflower seeds, and cocoa powder. A naturally sweetened snack with no added sugar, ready in 10 minutes.

Fruited cream puffs: shortcut pate a choux made with pancake mix, filled with ice cream and topped with sweetened strawberries. Ten elegant frozen desserts from pantry staples.

Homemade frozen yogurt with fresh fruit, orange juice, and egg whites beaten until fluffy. A no-churn, low-calorie frozen dessert you can make with any fruit.

Fudge drops made with melted milk chocolate, granola cereal, and salted peanuts. A 10-minute no-bake candy that only needs a microwave and 3 ingredients.

Add extra to your fudge, top it with this white vanilla frosting. This icing also works well with cakes.

Fudge satin pie layers a toasted almond graham crust under a no-bake chocolate filling enriched with Kahlua and finished with coffee whipped cream rosettes. A silky French silk style dessert.

Thick homemade hot fudge sauce made with unsweetened chocolate, evaporated milk, and sugar. Rich, glossy, and pourable, this makes enough to fill two gift jars.

No-bake fudgy oatmeal cookies with cocoa, peanut butter, and rolled oats. Boil the sugar mixture for one minute, stir in oats and peanut butter, drop on wax paper, and you're done.

Homemade funnel cake with a simple batter of flour, egg, and milk fried golden in swirling patterns and dusted with powdered sugar. County fair flavor at home.

Gelato di pesche: Italian peach gelato made with fresh peach puree, simple syrup, lemon juice, and softly whipped cream. Pure summer-fruit Italian frozen dessert.

Genoise sponge cake whips warm whole eggs and sugar to ribbon stage, then folds in cake flour and melted butter for a delicate French-style layer cake base. The classic foundation for tortes and trifles.

George Washington's gingerbread cream pie: a spiced molasses gingerbread cake split and filled with a vanilla-apricot custard set with gelatin. A historic American dessert with deep, warm flavors.

Soft gingerbread cookies with molasses, hot coffee, cinnamon, cloves, and ground ginger. A rollout cookie dough for gingerbread men with a tender, cake-like texture instead of a crisp snap.

Ginger molasses cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar with a crackled top. Loaded with ginger, cloves, and cinnamon for bold spice. Underbake for soft centers or bake full for snaps.