Dessert Recipes

Pear and ginger pudding layered with butter-sauteed pears, broken gingersnap cookies, and heavy cream, then baked until bubbling. A warm, spiced fruit dessert.

Sliced Kiwi and Banana with Strawberry Puree recipe

No-bake cheesecake with graham cracker walnut crust, applesauce-swirled filling, and warm spiced apple topping. Mix filling uses box convenience with fresh flavor from lemon and homemade sauce.

A masterchef-level dessert: espresso chocolate mousse over creme anglaise, served in flowerpot dishes and topped with handmade chocolate flowers.

Raspberry pecan thumbprint cookies spiced with cinnamon and allspice, filled with seedless raspberry jam and topped with chopped pecans. Better the next day.

Frozen chocolate mousse ring with kirsch-soaked strawberries. Bittersweet chocolate mousse set in a mold, unmolded, and filled with macerated berries and whipped cream.

Macedoine of fresh fruit marinated in rum and orange juice with oranges, apples, pears, bananas, raspberries, and walnuts. An elegant French fruit dessert.

Kolachkes are Polish-American cream cheese cookies: a tender butter-and-cream-cheese dough wrapped around fruit jam, walnut, or sweet cheese filling. Rolled in powdered sugar instead of flour.

Mud pie with an Oreo cookie crust, coffee ice cream layered with homemade chocolate-marshmallow mud sauce, and Kahlua whipped cream on top. The retro frozen dessert that earned its nickname for a reason.

Buttery sandwich cookies stuffed with a slice of Baby Ruth candy bar, baked into pockets of melted peanut, caramel and nougat. Tender shortbread-style dough, six ingredients.

Mexican wedding cookies shaped into crescents with butter, crushed pecans, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Tender, crumbly, and melt-in-your-mouth with just six ingredients.

Try this interesting grasshopper pie, it is lots of fun to make, and you will love it!

Classic Italian tiramisu with mascarpone, marsala wine, espresso-soaked ladyfingers, and grated bittersweet chocolate. A cooked egg custard base makes this version rich and silky.

Frozen mocha toffee dessert with coffee-spiked vanilla ice cream and crushed toffee bars in a ladyfinger-lined springform pan, topped with Kahlua whipped cream. No-bake and make-ahead.

Bristol icebox cake: layers of vanilla wafer crumbs and a crushed pineapple-pecan-butter mixture, chilled overnight and topped with whipped cream. Vintage no-bake dessert.

This buttery, tangy and fruity plum tart is so delicious, the almond crumble adds the extra crunchiness.