Dessert Recipes

Preserve summer apricots in anisette liqueur with fennel for sweet-spiced fruit that brightens winter desserts and cheese plates all year long.

Apricots in brandy, an 1831 American recipe: fresh apricots blanched in light syrup, bottled, and covered with equal parts syrup and French brandy. A heritage spirit-preserved fruit.

Filled cookies sandwich a sweet raisin filling between two rounds of tender vanilla shortbread, sealed with fork tines and baked golden. Old-fashioned American lunchbox classic, like a homemade fig newton.

3-ingredient Banana Cream blends ripe bananas with low-fat yogurt and serves over chopped dried apricots. A no-cook dessert or quick breakfast ready in 10 minutes with no added sugar.

Banana honey frozen yogurt with just 4 ingredients: ripe bananas, plain yogurt, honey, and lemon juice. Naturally sweetened, no refined sugar, made with or without an ice cream maker.

No-bake banana vanilla wafer pie layered with sliced bananas and vanilla whipped cream. Just four ingredients, chilled overnight for a soft, creamy icebox dessert.

Fresh banana-pineapple sorbet churned with low-fat yogurt and honey, served in a hollowed-out pineapple shell for a stunning tropical presentation. Light, fruity, and low-fat.

Baked bananas and pancakes with quartered bananas, beer-batter pancakes, Calvados or Grand Marnier, orange juice, and molasses. A British-style pudding-dessert that's part crepe, part bananas Foster.

Bath cookies made with sea salt, baking soda, cornstarch, and essential oils. Fizzy, skin-softening bath treats shaped like cookies. NOT for eating, for bathing only.

This easy yet delicious ice-cream chocolate bottom pie will be a sweet surprise to your loved one at Valentine's Day.

Beer float made with chocolate ice cream and a 12-ounce pour of beer in a tall glass. Two ingredients, ready in 30 seconds, and the strangest dessert-drink you'll ever love.

Three fresh berries, five minutes, zero cooking. Strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries are partially blended into a chunky sauce bursting with natural sweetness. A no-sugar-added fruit dessert that's as easy as it gets.

Besan burfi, a traditional Indian fudge of chickpea flour slow-toasted in ghee with cardamom and sugar. A four-ingredient festival sweet cut into diamond pieces.

Blender chocolate chip cupcakes mix the entire batter in a blender for one-bowl convenience. Tender vanilla cupcakes studded with semisweet chocolate chips. Mix, pour, bake. Done in 45 minutes.

Blueberries with brown sugar cream is a 3-ingredient dessert: fresh blueberries, a dollop of sour cream, and a sprinkle of brown sugar that slowly melts into dark ribbons. Ready in 5 minutes.

Blueberry snow folds whipped egg whites into a gelatin-set berry puree for a cloud-light, low-calorie dessert. Topped with fresh strawberries for color and crunch.