Dessert Recipes

Chilled poppy seed soup blended with yogurt, half-and-half, honey, and nutmeg. A sweet, creamy no-cook cold soup served as a unique dessert or first course.

Traditional British Christmas plum pudding with cognac-soaked dried fruit, walnuts, suet, and warm spices, steamed in a mold and served with brandy butter sauce. A Victorian holiday classic.

Apple crisp with double-layered apples and a buttery oat-cinnamon crumble, finished with a splash of apple juice for extra moisture. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream for a fall classic.

Fruit cocktail cake with a moist sour cream batter spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, studded with canned fruit cocktail. The retro pantry-staple cake from a 1960s Sunday-supper card.

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.

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.

Sherry wine Bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, French vanilla pudding mix, nutmeg, and chopped walnuts. Rich, moist, and warmly boozy with minimal effort.

A scrumptious cheesecake made with orange juice and seedless raisins.

Upside-down pear gingerbread cake with caramelized pear slices under a spiced molasses cake loaded with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Served with vanilla whipped cream.

Southern sweet potato pie with mashed sweet potatoes, warm spices, and a brightening splash of fresh lemon or orange juice. Pecan halves on top add Southern charm. The two-stage bake delivers a custard that sets without cracking.

Thanksgiving apple butter pumpkin pie blends spiced apple butter with pumpkin puree, brown sugar, and warm spices for a deeper, more complex twist on the classic. The fall pie that surprises pumpkin pie traditionalists.

Home-canned peach pie filling spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, with apple and golden raisins for body. Four pints from one canning session means peach pie any month of the year.

Deep dish peach pie features ripe summer peaches under a single golden crust with cinnamon, nutmeg and a sugar-crackled top. The classic peach dessert at its most extravagant.

Fruit and tofu pie layers honey-sweetened peaches and coconut under a silky blended tofu-cream cheese custard, baked in a pastry shell. A lighter dessert with hidden protein.

Fresh rhubarb pie with orange juice, orange zest, and nutmeg in a lattice-top crust. The filling gets cooked on the stovetop first for a set, glossy texture that won't make the bottom crust soggy.

Apple pie with apricot glaze layers tart Granny Smith apples over a custard pastry cream and finishes with a layer of apricot preserves under the top crust. A French-style twist on classic American apple pie.