81 full recipes

Danish pastry envelopes filled with cheese or prune, brushed with egg wash and apricot glaze. A classic European bakery pastry with a flaky, golden crust.

Nancy's ice cream kolacky: a three-ingredient Eastern European-style cookie where vanilla ice cream replaces liquid and eggs, creating a tender pastry dough filled with jam and dusted with powdered sugar. A Christmas cookie-tray favorite.

Rabbit cake is an old-fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch comfort bake: tender deboned rabbit layered with creamy potato filling and a simple stock gravy, then baked until golden and bubbling. Frugal, deeply savory.

Cranberry raisin squares with a double pastry crust and fruity filling baked until golden. A slab-style hand pie cut into bars, great for holiday dessert trays and potlucks.

Fig and cherry cobbler with dried figs, cherry pie filling, cinnamon, and drop biscuit topping. A bubbly, old-fashioned fruit cobbler that starts hot and finishes at moderate heat.

Cherry turnovers made with frozen puff pastry and canned cherry pie filling, drizzled with a simple powdered sugar glaze. Just 4 ingredients for a flaky, bakery-style pastry.

Mini cherry pies made in a sandwich maker with store-bought pie crust and cherry pie filling. A 2-ingredient, 17-minute shortcut dessert drizzled with icing.

Two-ingredient cherry pie using canned cherry pie filling and a double crust. The easiest cherry pie recipe with a two-temperature bake for a perfectly golden, flaky crust.

Australian savoury choux pastry puffs filled with a béchamel-style mixture and salmon, chicken, shrimp or asparagus. Elegant French-inspired party appetizer.

Quick cherry turnovers made with crescent roll dough and canned cherry pie filling. Three ingredients plus a simple powdered sugar glaze. Ready in 30 minutes from start to finish.

Kolatchkies, cream cheese pastry cookies filled with your choice of fruit filling, pinched shut, and dusted with powdered sugar. A classic Eastern European treat.

Brownie crust pie with a chocolate chip brownie base, creamy no-bake cheesecake filling, and canned pie filling on top. Five ingredients and almost no effort.

Upside-down apple cinnamon rolls with just 4 ingredients: canned apple pie filling, refrigerated rolls, pecans, and brown sugar. Cooked in the microwave and flipped onto a plate in minutes.

Enhanced prune filling for hamantaschen with chopped raisins, nuts, lemon juice, and nutmeg. A quick upgrade to jarred filling that takes 5 minutes.

Dump cake with pie filling, crushed pineapple, yellow cake mix, and melted butter topped with coconut and nuts. A no-mix dessert where you literally dump everything into the pan and bake.

No-bake blueberry pie with sweetened condensed milk, sour cream, and lemon in a crumb crust. Just chill and serve for a creamy, fruity dessert that's foolproof.