Dessert Recipes

Blueberry coffee cake with cinnamon streusel: a tender butter cake studded with juicy blueberries and crowned with a buttery cinnamon-sugar crumble. The brunch staple that disappears off every plate.

White Christmas pie with coconut, a chiffon-style holiday dessert with vanilla-almond custard, folded whipped cream and egg whites, set in a baked crust. Topped with candied cherries.

Some people like the cherry sauce served hot with the rice pudding. In Denmark the tradition is to include 1 whole almond in the rice pudding. And the person to find it wins the prize commonly a cute and tasty marzipan pig!

Pennsylvania Dutch chocolate cake made with boiled chocolate, buttermilk, and baking soda, topped with tangy cream cheese frosting. Rich, dense crumb with old-fashioned charm.

Rose almond jumbles flavored with rosewater, packed with finely chopped blanched almonds, and dropped in ring shapes. A fragrant, old-fashioned cookie from the Victorian era.

Vanilla buttermilk panna cotta with fresh strawberry jam on top. A make-ahead individual dessert that sets in small glasses and feeds six for dinner parties or date nights.

Best 1-2-3-4 Cake with Chocolate Icing: a triple-layer butter cake topped with a cooked chocolate icing made from unsweetened squares. Old-school birthday cake at its essence.

Light honey gelato made with skim milk, whipped egg whites, and unflavored gelatin. No ice cream maker needed. A fluffy, low-fat frozen dessert sweetened entirely with honey.

A classic white layer cake made with egg whites for a pure, snowy crumb. Tender, light, and vanilla-scented, ready for your favorite frosting.

Crispy fried lemon rosette cookies made on a traditional rosette iron, dusted with powdered sugar. Lacy, paper-thin Scandinavian-style cookies that shatter under the first bite. A holiday classic.

Banana cream pie with a tempered egg custard, sliced bananas folded in, and fresh whipped cream on top. Old-school diner-style cream pie made from scratch with no boxed mix in sight.

Mother's Day baked apple-cinnamon French toast assembles overnight, then bakes into a puffed, custardy casserole with dried apples, raisins, and warm spices. Zero morning-of stress.

Pear and apricot tart layers fanned pears and apricot halves over almond paste filling in a buttery almond pastry, then glazes with apple jelly. A bakery-worthy fruit tart for special occasions.

Apple sheet cake with pecans and a warm brown sugar icing poured straight over the pan. Three cups of fresh apple keep every slice deeply moist.

Eggnog chiffon pie, an airy brandy-spiked custard set with gelatin and lightened with whipped egg whites, dusted with fresh nutmeg in a flaky homemade crust. A Christmas dessert worth the fuss.

Raspberry-filled apricot cake uses apricot nectar in a doctored yellow cake mix, layered with raspberry jam and apricot whipped frosting. Toasted coconut tops this four-layer stunner.