Dessert Recipes

These decadent snacks are filled with a sweet cream and topped off with a luscious chocolate sauce.

Delicious and chewy. They tend to stick together when you stack them in tupperware.

Dark rum balls made with crushed vanilla wafers, cocoa, nuts, and a generous pour of dark rum, rolled in powdered sugar. No-bake holiday cookie that improves with age in the tin.

Mrs Fields almond crunch cookies rolled in sliced almonds and drizzled with a ganache-style chocolate glaze. Buttery, nutty, and crispy with a slow bake for maximum crunch.

No-bake chocolate Grand Marnier truffles made with ground chocolate wafers, almonds, and orange liqueur, rolled in powdered sugar. Elegant, boozy, and better after aging a week.

Tennessee black walnut cake builds a tall, airy sponge with whipped egg whites, molasses, and warm spice. Crowned with cinnamon cream frosting and toasted walnut halves.

Classic pecan pie from Dear Abby columnist Abigail Van Buren, built on corn syrup, brown sugar, and whole pecans scattered across the top instead of stirred in. The old-school Southern holiday standard.

Old Pecan Street pecan pie: an Austin, Texas classic with light corn syrup, vanilla, and chopped pecans baked into a single unbaked crust. The straightforward Texas-style holiday pie.

Really enjoyed this buttermilk glaze drizzled over my carrot cake, it tasted great but it had much less calories and fat than a rich butter-cream cheese frosting. My husband also liked it very much.

Southern pecan pie with a Cajun twist: a quarter cup of brandy stirred into the buttery corn syrup filling adds warm, boozy depth beneath a blanket of whole pecans. Puffy, gooey, irresistible.

Authentic mincemeat from my Grandmother's recipe. Yields about 4 quarts/litres, enough to make about 4 mincemeat pies.

Carrot cake loaded with crushed pineapple, coconut, and walnuts. Soaked with hot buttermilk glaze straight out of the oven and finished with orange cream cheese frosting.

If you like sweet and buttery, you'll love these little gems. Quick and easy if you use store-bought mini tart shells. Or your could make your own shells out of pastry dough and bake them in a mini muffin pan.

A touch of Irish Cream teams up with chocolate for a mouth-watering change of pace.

Apple almond pie sets chopped apples and toasted sliced almonds in a custardy corn syrup filling. A pecan-pie-style technique applied to apples for a single-crust dessert with a glossy top.

Golden pecan pie pours brown sugar, light corn syrup, and vanilla over toasty pecan halves in a flaky shell. A classic Thanksgiving pie with deep molasses sweetness and a glossy top.