Dessert Recipes

Coca-Cola Cake with Hot Fudge Icing and Nuts recipe

No-bake chocolate haystacks with coconut, dried apricots, oats, and chopped nuts. A stovetop candy that boils for 30 seconds, drops onto wax paper, and sets as it cools.

Boozy Southern Comfort bundt cake with a buttery liqueur glaze and crunchy pecans. Semi-homemade, impossibly moist, and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for any gathering.

Traditional steamed cranberry pudding with suet, breadcrumbs and brown sugar. Dense, moist old-fashioned holiday dessert steamed for 2 hours.

Crostata di ricotta is the classic Italian lattice-topped tart filled with sweetened ricotta, grappa-soaked raisins, bittersweet chocolate, and orange zest. Pasta frolla crust, dusted with powdered sugar.

Daiquiri pie with lime Jello, lemon pudding, light rum, and whipped topping in a graham cracker crust. A no-bake cocktail-inspired icebox dessert that tastes like a frozen daiquiri in pie form.

Pumpkin pie layered with a sticky brown-sugar date and walnut base, then spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. A holiday upgrade on the classic that tastes like pecan pie had a baby with pumpkin.

A flourless chocolate torte layered with whipped ganache, apricot preserves, and espresso buttercream, finished with piped rosettes and chocolate coffee beans.

Easter bunny cake built from carrot cake rounds with coconut "fur", paper ears, and jelly bean eyes. A classic family Easter project that turns a simple cake mix into a showpiece bunny on a platter.

Cinnamon pear tart with a rustic whole wheat crust, warm spices, and juicy sliced pears. A free-form galette for two that's simple enough for any weeknight dessert.

Eggnog thumbprint cookies filled with rum-spiked buttercream and dusted with nutmeg. A buttery shortbread base with a creamy holiday filling. Perfect for Christmas cookie tins.

Classic butter cookies with a hint of orange juice and vanilla, rolled and cut into shapes, then topped with a creamy buttercream frosting. A versatile holiday cookie perfect for decorating.

Custard rhubarb pie sets fresh rhubarb in a vanilla custard inside a flaky crust. The two-stage bake locks in the custard's silky texture while keeping the rhubarb tart and tender.

Death by chocolate: a layered chocolate masterpiece of brownie, cocoa meringue, chocolate and mocha mousse, all under glossy ganache. A multi-day project built for serious chocolate lovers.

Classic Southern lemon chess pie with a buttery cornmeal-thickened custard, fresh lemon juice, and zest of three lemons in a single-crust pastry shell.

Rich chocolate cake with cocoa, buttermilk, and a hot-water finish for an extra-moist crumb. The classic one-bowl chocolate sheet cake that bakes up dense, dark, and tender every time.