Dessert Recipes

Coconut kisses made from stiff egg whites folded with shredded coconut, vanilla, and almond extract, topped with a candied cherry. Light, chewy meringue cookies with only six ingredients.

Fresh strawberry pie with whole berries standing in glossy cooked syrup. The cornstarch glaze sets clear and ruby-red around the fruit, then whipped topping finishes the slice. Diner-style summer pie.

Lemon baked Alaska with brandy-soaked lemon cake, lemon ice cream, and toasted meringue. A showstopping flambe dessert that browns in a hot oven and gets lit tableside.

This host of ghosts cake is easy to make, and the result is super outstanding, want to impress your guests? Try this out!

Four ways to shape holiday butter cookie dough: cutouts with egg paint, spritz cookies, chocolate caramel marbles, and coconut macaroon wreaths. One dough, endless options.

Upside-down apple tart with caramelized Golden Delicious apples on a flaky cake-flour crust, finished with a brown sugar yogurt drizzle. A lighter take on classic tarte Tatin.

Crisp, cloud-light meringue cookies loaded with chocolate chips and walnuts. Pop them in a hot oven, turn it off, and walk away. They bake themselves overnight.

No-bake chocolate peanut butter snack bar with oats and raisins. Just 5 ingredients, 10 minutes, and a quick freeze. A Weight Watchers friendly grab-and-go treat.

Healthy apple pie with a crushed Grape Nuts cereal base and a no-sugar-added filling sweetened with apple juice concentrate. Coriander and cinnamon spice six thinly sliced apples for a low-fat dessert.

Fresh peach pie layers ripe sliced peaches under a glossy peach-and-nutmeg glaze in a pre-baked shell. No double crust, no second bake. The classic American summer fridge pie that lets ripe fruit do the talking.

Fresh fruit tart with kiwi, strawberries, and bananas on a whole wheat crust with orange juice glaze. A lighter dessert with no cream filling and a rustic free-form pastry base.

No-bake marshmallow candy balls with ground candied cherries and blanched almonds rolled in shredded coconut. A vintage Christmas-tin confection that's chewy, sweet, and oven-free.

Apple pie with a marshmallow meringue topping. Egg whites whipped with marshmallow creme spread cloud-soft across cinnamon-spiced apples and brown into golden peaks. A retro 1950s twist on classic apple pie.

No-bake peanut butter cereal clusters made with corn syrup, sugar, and Special K. Just 4 ingredients, no oven, and ready to eat in 25 minutes. A kid-friendly classic.

Trinidadian sugar cakes are chewy Caribbean coconut candies cooked in sugar syrup and tinted pink. A traditional street-fair sweet from Trinidad and Tobago.

Easy mandarin orange cake doctors a lemon cake mix with ground hazelnuts, mandarin orange chunks, and fresh orange zest, baked in a tube pan and dusted with sugar or glazed with chocolate.