Dessert Recipes

Lemon chiffon pie made with a silky cooked-yolk lemon curd folded with whipped egg whites and whipped topping. A bright, cloud-light dessert that sets up in the fridge thanks to a touch of gelatin.

Rich chocolate cake with melted chocolate, pecans, and a hint of red food coloring, topped with homemade chocolate pecan frosting. A Southern classic from scratch.

Father Time chocolate chip cookies decorated with piped clock face icing for New Year's Eve. Chewy brown sugar cookies with a simple powdered sugar icing design.

Favourite lime meringue pie features a tangy stovetop lime curd and a stabilized cooked-cornstarch meringue that resists weeping and shrinking. The reliable upgrade over classic lemon meringue.

Classic Southern red velvet cake with cocoa-tinted buttermilk batter and traditional cooked-milk ermine frosting. The original layer cake before cream cheese frosting became standard.

Fluted sandwich cookies filled with tinted vanilla buttercream in three pastel colours. A pretty bakery-style cookie with a cut-out window on top showing the green, pink or yellow filling underneath.

Fresh strawberry pie with a glossy cornstarch glaze made in the microwave. Whole berries folded into a cooked strawberry filling, chilled until set. No oven needed for the filling.

Frozen orange cloud pie layers tangy citrus filling over a buttery graham cracker crust. A no-bake summer dessert built from sweetened condensed milk, soda, and whipped topping.

Christmas gift-box cake decorated with homemade red ribbon and holly leaves made from melted vanilla chips and corn syrup, dusted with edible glitter. A centerpiece-worthy holiday showstopper.

Halloween spiderweb cookies decorate sugar cookies with white flooded icing and black piped concentric circles, then drag a toothpick to create perfect web patterns. Show-stopping party cookies for kids and adults.

Creepy, fun Halloween eyeball cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream frosting, red food coloring veins, and candy eyeballs. A spooky treat kids love to decorate and devour at Halloween parties.

Holly Cluster cookies: chewy brown-sugar chocolate chip cookies topped with green marzipan holly leaves and red cinnamon candy berries. Holiday cookie tray showpiece with old-school decorating charm.

Hot fresh strawberries au sabayon, briefly poached in lemon-vanilla syrup and blanketed in a frothy Marsala egg-yolk zabaglione. A French-Italian restaurant dessert that plates in minutes.

Lemon mousse pie folds whipped cream into a tangy gelatin-set cream cheese base for a no-bake citrus pie that lands somewhere between cheesecake and chiffon.

Frozen lime pie with a cooked egg yolk and lime curd base folded into whipped cream and stiff egg whites, set in a graham cracker crust. Light, mousse-like, and served frozen.

No-bake lime cheesecake with a honey-graham crust, fat-free cream cheese, evaporated skim milk, and fresh lime juice. Light, low-fat dessert that chills until firm.