Dessert recipe collection

German anise cookies beaten for 20 minutes until fluffy, dried overnight, then baked golden for distinctive chewy-crisp springerle-style treats.

Spectacular French apple dessert with caramelized apples layered in Calvados-soaked brioche, pressed overnight, topped with hot apples for elegant dinner party finale.

Traditional British Christmas plum pudding: a dense steamed pudding rich with suet, dried fruit, candied orange, and brandy. Made weeks ahead to mellow, then reheated and flamed for the holiday table.

No-bake banana vanilla wafer pie layered with sliced bananas and vanilla whipped cream. Just four ingredients, chilled overnight for a soft, creamy icebox dessert.

Cherries jubilee ice cream pie swirls a brandy-spiked dark cherry sauce through vanilla ice cream in a honey-graham crust, then freezes firm. A make-ahead frozen take on the flaming dessert classic.

Bette's coconut cake is a buttermilk tube cake soaked in hot coconut syrup for a moist, sticky-sweet finish. Loaded with flaked coconut and chopped nuts in every slice.

Layers of chocolate and vanilla ice cream in a spicy gingersnap crust, drizzled with homemade chocolate ganache. This no-bake frozen pie needs just 15 minutes of hands-on work and zero oven time.

A traditional Acadian blood pudding made from fresh pork blood, slow-simmered pork, heart, lung, and neck with onions, cloves, savory, and coriander. Served as a sauce or stuffed into natural casings.

Jewel-toned cubes of orange, cherry, and lime Jell-O nestled in a creamy lemon-pineapple filling on a buttery graham cracker crust. No baking required, just chill overnight and slice.

Turtle cheesecake with a caramel-pecan bottom layer and a rich chocolate cream cheese top on a vanilla wafer crust. Three layers of indulgence, classic candy-shop flavors.

A crisp meringue shell bakes into a pie crust that gets layered with tangy lemon custard and whipped cream in this ethereal dessert where clouds of sweetness meet citrus brightness.

Cream cheese and mascarpone cheese makes this creamy and silky cheesecake, rhubarb and strawberry glaze adds the sweet and sour crunch, and the chocolate covered strawberries gives extra surprise. There are so many delicious things going on all at once, it's such a deluxe luxury!

Layered no-bake pie with a rich chocolate base and creamy cherry-almond mousse studded with maraschino cherries and toasted almonds. Topped with chocolate curls.

A no-bake ice cream pie layered with softened vanilla ice cream and cherry pie filling in a cookie crust. Freeze, slice, and serve with whipped topping.

Chocolate cherry cheesecake with a cherry liqueur-spiked filling, chocolate wafer crust, and glossy cherry pie filling on top. Melted chocolate chips and heavy cream create a silky, truffle-like texture. A make-ahead showpiece that needs 24 hours to set.

Crisp, cloud-light meringue cookies loaded with chocolate chips and walnuts. Pop them in a hot oven, turn it off, and walk away. They bake themselves overnight.