Dessert Recipes

French-style apple pie with sauteed tart apples in a single pastry shell, layered with a cooked vanilla custard filling and finished with an apricot preserve glaze on the crust.

German apple cake made with baking mix, sliced apples, and a brown sugar cinnamon streusel topping. A simple one-bowl cake with tender fruit and a crumbly, spiced crust.

Golden Apple custard pie with thinly sliced apples in a silky vanilla-cream custard, baked in a water bath until just set. Bistro-style French dessert with a golden top and fragrant nutmeg.

Macedoine of fresh fruit marinated in rum and orange juice with oranges, apples, pears, bananas, raspberries, and walnuts. An elegant French fruit dessert.

Tart apples baked with butter, plumped raisins, and lemon, then crowned with a golden meringue and served warm. An elegant, simple dessert that looks far harder than it is.

Classic homemade apple pie from scratch: a flaky double crust packed with cinnamon-spiced McIntosh and Granny Smith apples, thickened just enough and dotted with butter. The all-American dessert done right.

Grandma Hilda's apple pie: an old-world sheet-pan apple pie with a tender egg-rich dough, piled with grated apples, brown sugar, and a cinnamon-sugar crust on top.

Deep dish apple pie with a layer of sour cream over tart apples, sealed inside an egg-glazed double crust. The old-fashioned American classic served warm with cheddar or whipped cream.

Caramel apple pie loads a frozen crust with cubed apples, melted caramel candies, and chopped pecans for a quick fall dessert. One bowl assembly, no peeling fuss, ready in an hour.

Half-whole-wheat apple nut cookies with diced fresh apples, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. Cake-like, soft-textured drop cookies that taste like apple pie filling baked into a cookie. Makes 48.

Apple ring fritters with a light egg-white-folded batter for crisp lacy edges, fried golden and dusted with powdered sugar for a 40-minute homemade dessert.

German apple cake with tender yeast dough topped with cinnamon apples and buttery streusel crumble for a not-too-sweet dessert that's perfect with coffee.

German apple cream kuchen with yeast dough base, cinnamon apples, and creamy cheesecake topping for an elegant hybrid dessert best served warm from the oven.

Apple cheese pie: thinly sliced apples baked in a cream cheese pastry crust under a sweet cottage cheese custard. A two-cheese, two-temperature bake topped with whipped cream.

Yeasted apple crescents with a maple syrup whole wheat dough and a fresh apple and date filling. Make the dough overnight and bake golden, buttery rolls the next morning.

Flaky pastry squares layered with spiced apple filling and crumbly streusel topping, drizzled with vanilla glaze. These hand-held treats bake up golden and taste like portable apple pie.