Dessert Recipes

Platanos con crema: warm butter-softened bananas sprinkled with sweet sherry and sugar, topped with vanilla whipped cream. A quick Latin American dessert ready in minutes.

Fresh raspberry sour cream cake bakes whole berries and chopped walnuts into a tender tube cake. Topped with whipped cream and sugared raspberries for a summer dessert table centerpiece.

Italian dome cake with amaretto-soaked sponge and whipped cream filling studded with toasted hazelnuts, almonds, and chocolate. No-bake showstopper.

Butter, chocolate and peanut butter together make this cake super moist, chocolaty, buttery, fluffy and delicious.

English cheese pie with sieved cottage cheese, cream sherry, rosewater, and currants in a from-scratch butter pastry crust. A fragrant Tudor-era custard dessert.

Frozen white chocolate mousse cake with a vanilla wafer crust, Grand Marnier whipped cream, chopped pistachios, and fresh raspberry sauce. An elegant make-ahead dessert.

Coconut-almond cheesecake with vanilla wafer crust tastes like a Mounds bar in creamy, baked form and makes an impressive dessert for chocolate lovers and coconut fans.

Madu's incredible Pineapple Utopia desert. Note: I strongly suggest that you make two. (That way other people can have some after you eat the first one yourself.)

Ganache-filled devil's food cake: a deeply moist, dark chocolate layer cake with a silky chocolate ganache filling and rich cocoa buttercream. A triple-chocolate showstopper for serious chocolate lovers.

Have been making all kinds of macarons recently, certainly has become my new addiction. These chocolate macarons are sandwiched with rich-silky chocolate ganache. They melt in your mouth.

A deliciously light chocolate marbled angel food cake is filled with raspberry jam, and topped with coffee cream. It's sweet and rich enough to please your sweet tooth, but without too much guilt.

Nothing can compete with a homemade ice cream, especially with all these juicy blueberries being added. A perfect treat in summer.

A no-bake strawberry cream cheese pie with fluffy whipped cream filling, fresh berries on top, and a glossy currant jelly glaze. Can be frozen overnight for easy entertaining.

Crispy phyllo tart shells filled with homemade creme fraiche and topped with fresh mixed berries on a raspberry coulis. An elegant French-inspired dessert with shatteringly flaky pastry and tangy cream.

Sweet potato pecan pie: a layer of spiced sweet potato custard topped with classic pecan filling, served with a bourbon-spiked vanilla cream sauce. The ultimate Southern Thanksgiving pie.

No-bake cranberry eggnog cheesecake with a coconut cookie crust, swirled cranberry sauce layers, and a fluffy gelatin-set cream cheese filling. A showstopping Christmas dessert.