Dessert Recipes

Simple butter cookies that earned honorable mention: just butter, sugar, flour, and vanilla rolled in sugar and stamped flat, no chilling or cutting required for crisp golden edges.

No-bake-style cherry squares layered with cornflake crumbs, coconut, marshmallows, maraschino cherries, and walnuts, bound with sweetened condensed milk for a festive holiday treat.

Toasted almonds fold into creamy cheesecake filling spiked with amaretto and sour cream, creating this elegant dessert where nutty crunch and smooth richness meet in every forkful.

The name of these triple chocolate cookies says it all- or almost. Serve them only to guests who you don't want to have leave- ever!

Chocolate pudding studded with chopped Almond Joy candy pieces fills a graham cracker-candy crust for a no-bake pie that tastes like your favorite candy bar in dessert form.

Apple dessert bars with a buttery shortbread crust, cinnamon-lemon apple layer, and a rich coconut-nut custard topping that bakes into chewy squares.

Honey beer cake baked in a tube pan with apple butter, orange juice, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. A dense, fragrant cake with five layers of sweetness and a beer-malt backbone.

Creamy cinnamon cheesecake on a buttery graham cracker crust, finished with a vanilla sour cream topping and toasted almonds. Best made a day ahead for the richest flavor.

A layered no-bake Christmas dessert with a pecan shortbread crust, cream cheese filling, swirled chocolate and vanilla pudding, and whipped topping. Four layers of crowd-pleasing holiday indulgence.

Classic Canadian Nanaimo bars with a chocolate-coconut-nut base, creamy custard powder buttercream middle, and a glossy semi-sweet chocolate top. No-bake and freezer-ready.

Whole oranges caramelized with butter and sugar, then flambeed with Irish whiskey and bathed in a wine-orange syrup. A dramatic Irish dessert served warm or cold.

Authentic Pennsylvania Dutch shoo fly pie with a deep molasses filling and spiced brown sugar crumb topping with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. A true wet-bottom pie from the Amish tradition.

Authentic Pad Thai with chicken, shrimp, fried tofu, rice noodles, and tamarind-fish sauce dressing. Topped with crushed peanuts, bean sprouts, lime, and cilantro.

Mixed berry cobbler with boysenberries, blueberries, and raspberries under a buttery cream biscuit topping. Baked until bubbling and golden, served warm with cream.

Americana key lime pie: a vintage chiffon-style version with gelatin, fluffy egg whites, and folded whipped cream piled into a baked shell. Cool, mousse-light, garnished with pistachios.

Soft almond-scented cake mix cookies studded with candied cherries and topped with a chocolate almond kiss pressed in while still warm. Three dozen in 30 minutes.