Dessert Recipes

Israeli upside-down apple cake made with potato starch instead of flour, naturally gluten-free. Whole apples stuffed with walnuts and raisins bake in a caramel base topped with a light sponge.

Warmly spiced buttermilk layer cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. A one-bowl recipe that bakes into two tender layers ready for your favorite frosting.

Soft persimmon cookies spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves, loaded with walnuts and raisins. A nostalgic fall baking recipe that puts ripe persimmon pulp to its best use.

A European-style fruit flan with a golden sponge base baked in a fluted tin, piled with fresh strawberries, and finished with a glossy red glaze. Bakery-window gorgeous from your own oven.

President Roosevelt's birthday cake bakes a deep mocha chocolate cake spiked with cold black coffee and a splash of vinegar for a tender, old-fashioned crumb. A historical White House recipe.

No-bake energy balls made with dried apricots, walnuts, coconut, and wheat germ, bound with orange juice and rolled in chopped nuts.

Fresh raspberry sour cream cake bakes whole berries and chopped walnuts into a tender tube cake. Topped with whipped cream and sugared raspberries for a summer dessert table centerpiece.

Apple turnovers with a tender homemade cream cheese pastry, cinnamon-spiced apple filling, and a dusting of powdered sugar. The cream cheese in the dough makes it impossibly flaky.

Lighter applesauce fruitcake with dates, raisins, walnuts, and candied fruit. No alcohol soak, no months of aging. Three loaves of moist holiday cake without the heaviness of traditional fruitcake.

English cheese pie with sieved cottage cheese, cream sherry, rosewater, and currants in a from-scratch butter pastry crust. A fragrant Tudor-era custard dessert.

Elegant lemon cake roll with a light sponge filled and frosted with creamy lemon filling, then coated in yellow-tinted coconut. A show-stopping spring dessert.

Kolatchkies, cream cheese pastry cookies filled with your choice of fruit filling, pinched shut, and dusted with powdered sugar. A classic Eastern European treat.

Diabetic-friendly French fudge made with evaporated skim milk, cream cheese, chocolate chips, and sugar substitute. A creamy, lower-sugar chocolate fudge that chills firm enough to cut into squares.

Eggnog cake with rum, orange and nutmeg, layered with eggnog cream filling and chocolate frosting. Festive holiday layer cake for Christmas dessert tables.

Apple pie flipped upside down so the brown sugar and walnuts melt into a sticky praline-style topping over a flaky double crust. Inverted onto a platter for the reveal.

Pineapple meringue pie with a cornstarch-thickened pineapple-lemon filling under tall, glossy peaks of beaten egg white. A bright, citrusy twist on the classic lemon meringue.