Dessert Recipes

Crunchy sundae topping made from toasted oats, brown sugar, butter, and salted peanuts. A make-ahead crumble for ice cream, pudding, and desserts.

Apple pie baked inside a paper bag for an unbelievably tender filling and a crackly streusel top. Pat-in oil crust, no rolling pin required.

Chocolate cupcakes with a hidden cream cheese and chocolate chip filling baked right inside. An old-fashioned cocoa batter with vinegar for extra tenderness, topped with crunchy pecans.

Chocolate drop cookies with a hidden chunk of white chocolate baked into the center. No flour, no eggs: melted chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk and nuts make the entire dough. Fudgy, dense, surprise inside.

Surprise packages are butter cookies with a chocolate mint wafer hidden inside each one, iced and decorated to look like tiny Christmas presents. A fun holiday baking project.

Crushed crackers folded into stiff meringue with pecans create a crispy-chewy crust that bakes into a pie shell, topped with whipped cream and fresh strawberries.

Susan's apple cake is a one-bowl dump-and-bake with three whole apples, toasted walnuts, and a full tablespoon of cinnamon. The kind of homey loaf that improves the second day.

Russian-style fried batter puffs made from choux dough with a hint of orange zest, drizzled in warm honey and dusted with cinnamon. Light, airy, and crispy on the outside. Makes about 28 puffs in just 30 minutes.

Crunchy candied pecans coated in a cinnamon-vanilla meringue and slow-baked in butter. These addictive Swedish Nuts are the holiday snack your guests will fight over.

Chocolate pound cake made with melted German chocolate and coconut, baked in a bundt pan and finished with a semi-sweet chocolate glaze. Dense, rich, and deeply chocolatey.

Sweet cinnamon fettuccine is a dessert pasta: egg noodles rolled and cut by hand, scented with cinnamon and lemon zest, then deep-fried into crispy golden ribbons. Dust with powdered sugar for an Italian fairground treat.

Buttery snowball cookies with ground almonds, walnuts, and hazelnuts rolled in powdered sugar. A melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookie also known as Mexican wedding cookies.

Sweet fried bananas soaked in rum, lemon juice, and orange zest, dipped in a light egg white batter, and fried until golden. A Caribbean-inspired dessert served hot with sugar.

Sweet green tomato pie: thin-sliced unripe tomatoes baked like fruit in a spiced, double-crust pie. Tart and tangy with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, it tastes surprisingly like old-fashioned apple pie.

A show-stopping heart-shaped cake for Valentine's Day made from one square and one round cake, frosted in pink vanilla buttercream and covered in tinted coconut. Decorated with gumdrop hearts and fruit roll bows.

Sweet milk cakes made from pancake mix with extra sugar, egg, milk, and melted shortening. Quick griddle cakes with a slightly sweeter flavor than regular pancakes.