Dessert Recipes

Traditional British coconut ice with a white and pink layered look. Just sugar, water, desiccated coconut, and vanilla cooked to soft-ball stage and pressed into squares. A classic Christmas sweet that's dead simple to make.

Coconut meringue cookies shaped into little bird nests and filled with candy eggs or jelly beans. A show-stopping Easter dessert that's crisp, light as air, and gluten-free. Makes 20 nests.

This is one of the basic dessert sauces. It is luscious simply served with fresh fruit.

A tiny two-ingredient cake made for the Easy Bake Oven. Just 3 tablespoons of cake mix and a splash of milk for kid-sized baking fun in 15 minutes.

Cottage cheese blended with pumpkin purée, brown sugar, and warm spices makes a lighter, creamy filling for this graham cracker crust pie. Low-fat pumpkin pie that still satisfies.

A decadent dessert with a lovely french presentation. Egg white puffs shaped into quenelles topped with caramel and seasonal fruit. Guaranteed to wow any guests.

Fat-free chewy chocolate cookies made with cocoa powder, corn syrup, and egg whites instead of butter. Soft, fudgy, and intensely chocolatey with zero added fat.

Foolproof chocolate mousse made with just two ingredients: instant chocolate pudding folded into whipped cream. A 5-minute no-bake dessert that's light, fluffy, and impossible to mess up.

Easy fresh fruit parfait with sliced strawberries and bananas set in Jello and topped with whipped cream. Just 10 minutes of prep for a light, colorful no-bake dessert.

Fresh fruit salad, you can eat it at breakfast, after meals, any time, it is an excellent option.

Homemade funnel cake with a simple batter of flour, egg, and milk fried golden in swirling patterns and dusted with powdered sugar. County fair flavor at home.

Golden fruitcake with dried apricots, raisins, candied cherries, orange peel, citron, and shaved almonds in a light cake flour batter. Baked low and slow for 4 gorgeous holiday loaves.

Golden Wardens are whole pears poached slowly in honey, white grape juice, and lemon until the syrup turns burnished and the fruit collapses to butter-soft. An English heritage dessert built for the hardest, most stubborn pears.

Holiday molasses crinkles are spiced sugar-coated cookies with cracked, snowy tops. The water-droplet trick guarantees that signature crinkled surface every time. Soft inside, slightly crisp at the edges.

This ice cream like frozen dessert is so creamy, silken and chocolaty. It's definitely a kind of dessert that you can impress your guests.

No-bake lemon dessert with Jello lemon pie filling, whipped cream, glazed cherries, and ladyfingers in a springform pan. Light, creamy, and ready with zero oven time.