Dessert Recipes

Homemade animal crackers made with ground oatmeal, buttermilk, honey, and butter. Crispy, lightly sweet, and fun to make with kids. Just 7 simple ingredients.

These macaroons are slightly crisp outside, moist and chewy inside.

Key lime roll cake filled with lime-spiked lemon pie filling and frosted with whipped topping. A light, tangy jelly roll dessert tinted pale green and garnished with lime slices.

Aunt Catherine's Italian Cookies: a heirloom cookie with almond extract, cinnamon, and chopped nuts, finished in pastel-colored powdered sugar icing. Stores for months in tins.

Steamed persimmon pudding with cinnamon spice, raisins, and chopped almonds. Dense, moist loaf baked in a water bath and served warm with hard sauce.

Classic New Orleans king cake: a brioche-like yeast ring scented with nutmeg and lemon, filled with citron, glazed with lemon icing and purple-green-gold sugar. Mardi Gras tradition baked at home.

Fudgy brownie bars loaded with chopped pecans and topped with golden toasted marshmallows. From bowl to oven to mouth in 35 minutes. A bake sale knockout.

Strufoli are tiny Italian fried dough balls drizzled with warm honey and topped with rainbow sprinkles. A classic Neapolitan Christmas dessert shaped into a festive mound or wreath.

Light peach Bavarian cream dessert made with pureed peaches, peach yogurt, whipped egg whites, and real cream set with gelatin for an airy, no-bake treat.

Cornmeal cookies blend stone-ground cornmeal with flour for a sandy, slightly crunchy crumb. Studded with dried cherries or raisins and warmed with nutmeg. An Italian-American Christmas tin staple.

Silver and gold angel food cake: a marbled tube cake swirling pale angel food whites with golden orange-yolk batter for a striking sliced reveal. Light, airy, and ready for fresh strawberries.

A from-scratch cheesecake with a buttery lemon shortbread crust, rich cream cheese filling, and homemade tart cherry sauce. This is the cheesecake you make when you mean business.

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Bob Hope's lemon meringue pie with a bright cornstarch-thickened lemon curd in a baked pie shell, topped with sweet meringue and baked to a golden, lightly browned cap.

Fat-free oatmeal cookies sweetened with mashed banana, applesauce, and brown sugar. No butter, no oil. Whole wheat flour and oats give them satisfying chew. Vegan-friendly with optional raisins and sesame.

Hot zabaglione is the classic Italian dessert: egg yolks, sugar, and Marsala whipped over a double boiler into a warm, frothy custard served in glasses. Three ingredients, ready in 15 minutes, restaurant-quality elegance.