Dessert, Corn Recipes

Amish cookies made with both butter and corn oil, two kinds of sugar, and cream of tartar for a melt-in-your-mouth texture. A massive 8-dozen batch of simple, old-fashioned sugar cookies.

A lighter blueberry upside-down cake made with egg whites, oatmeal, and a whisper of cardamom. The berries bake on the bottom and become a glossy topping when you flip it out.

Lapsi is a traditional Indian bulgur wheat dessert cooked in milk with saffron, cardamom, fennel seeds, and golden raisins. Topped with slivered almonds for a warm, fragrant sweet.

Candied grapefruit peel: slow-simmered in sugar syrup until translucent, rolled in superfine sugar, and optionally dipped in dark chocolate for an old-fashioned confection.

Mint chocolate chip crust layered with vanilla ice cream swirled in melted mint chocolate, domed and blanketed in golden meringue. The ultimate frozen showstopper dessert.

Rich, glossy chocolate mint sauce made in the microwave in just 15 minutes. Drizzle over ice cream, brownies, or cake for a cool minty finish.

Chocolate peppermint cake: three-layer brown sugar cocoa cake with melting chocolate mint wafers pressed between layers and fluffy seven-minute peppermint frosting on top.

Chocolate-marshmallow cake is a light cocoa sponge baked in a jelly roll pan and topped with billowy marshmallow frosting. An old-fashioned American layer cake with the feel of a campfire s'more.

No-bake cocoa bourbon balls made with crushed vanilla wafers, pecans, powdered sugar, and a generous pour of bourbon. Roll in fruit sugar, chopped pecans, or cocoa powder. Ready in 15 minutes.

Emeril-inspired masa corn cakes with chili powder, topped with white wine chive cream and caviar. An elegant appetizer that turns simple corn into something show-stopping.

Macadamia nut brittle with dried banana chips and coconut, made in the microwave. A tropical twist on classic peanut brittle that's ready in under 15 minutes.

No-bake indoor s'mores bars made with Golden Grahams cereal, melted milk chocolate, corn syrup, and mini marshmallows. A campfire treat without the campfire.

Tiny cookie cups filled with a rich pecan-Kahlua topping.

Macadamia nut tartlets in a buttery shortbread cup with dark corn syrup filling and a nut half on top. Two-bite pecan pie energy with a tropical, buttery nut twist.

Diabetic-friendly lemon meringue pie sweetened with fructose and sugar substitute. The classic citrus dessert with a glossy meringue, formulated for lower-impact glucose response.

Pfefferneusse are traditional German pepper cookies with molasses, star anise, cinnamon, allspice, and black pepper, rolled in powdered sugar. This old-world recipe mellows for weeks in stoneware for the best flavor.