Dessert Recipes

Yeast based Czechoslovakian pastry filled with a poppy seed or cream cheese filling.

Fresh coconut cream pie layers a silky stovetop coconut custard under a cloud of golden meringue, finished with a shower of toasted coconut. An old-fashioned, made-from-scratch pie with tender custard and crisp-tipped peaks.

Old-fashioned egg-yolk cookies with six rich yolks, lemon and vanilla extracts, rolled in sugar before baking. Tender shortbread-style cookies that use up leftover yolks from angel food cake.

If you can't find key lime juice, use lime juice instead. The crust is buttery and flakey, the filling is creamy, lime-y and smooth, and the meringue topping is light and fluffy. Perfect balance of the flavor and the texture.

Lemon Lassie cookies, a Christmas classic with cinnamon-molasses dough wrapped around a tangy lemon-coconut curd filling, then sliced into bars before baking.

Silky and rich. This mascarpone ice cream is absolutely delicious, it's so easy to be addicted.

A layered Italian cassata cake with orange-ricotta filling, chocolate, candied citron, and vanilla frosting topped with pistachios. A Sicilian bakery classic you can make at home.

At Christmas time for sugar and spice these pfeffernusse are extra nice: try them once and you'll be delighted And so will the guests whom you've invited.

German chocolate cake using yellow cake mix doctored with melted German sweet chocolate, pudding mix, and buttermilk. Three layers stacked with classic cooked coconut-pecan filling between. The bakery-quality version of a backyard birthday classic.

This custard peach pie is a great way to use seasonal peaches. The custard is creamy and sweet, and the pecans in the crust and topping are a yummy addition. It’s hard to resist this delicious treat!

A famous Scottish style pie or tart. Plums baked in a rich and creamy custard.

A rich vanilla frozen yogurt. The rich custard taste and mouth feel come from the egg yolks with a smooth vanilla flavor from the vanilla bean.

Sfogliatelle Napoletane are flaky Neapolitan pastries filled with creamy ricotta custard, candied orange peel, and vanilla. Homemade Italian pastry dough baked golden and dusted with powdered sugar.

Even though these have very little sugar, they are fabulous. They even give Kolaches some stiff competition.

Homemade butter pecan ice cream: a rich browned-butter and brown-sugar custard churned silky-smooth and folded with toasted pecans. The browned butter gives it a deep, nutty butterscotch flavor no store version matches.

Delicious key lime pie, make it at home and enjoy it at any time even if you are not in the Keys.