Dessert Recipes

A foolproof 4-ingredient pie crust made with flour, salt, shortening, and ice water. Step-by-step instructions walk you through cutting, rolling, fluting, and blind baking like a pro.

Moist spiced zucchini cake with crushed pineapple, walnuts, currants, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Topped with an almond-lemon cream cheese frosting. A garden-to-dessert stunner.

Pineapple upside-down cupcakes with a brown sugar-cinnamon topping, crushed pineapple, and maraschino cherry centers. Light cake flour batter with whipped egg whites for extra lift.

Apple cheddar wontons deep fried until golden and coated in cinnamon brown sugar. Sharp cheddar melts into sweet apple inside a crispy wonton shell for an addictive snack.

Poppy seed bundt cake with vanilla and almond extracts, finished with a bright orange-almond glaze. A versatile cake for breakfast, snacking, or dessert.

Kentucky bourbon pecan cake with maraschino cherries, mace, and a pound of butter. Wrapped in bourbon-soaked cheesecloth and aged for up to a month for a rich, boozy fruitcake.

Honey sour cream anise cookies bake into pillowy, soft drop cookies with brown sugar, honey, tangy sour cream, and aromatic aniseed. A licorice-scented old-country cookie for big batches.

Hoernchen are German almond crescent cookies made with ground almonds, butter, and vanilla, dipped in colored sugar or sprinkles for a festive holiday cookie.

This classic New York-style cheesecake starts with a ready-made graham cracker crust for simplicity, then bakes rich cream cheese filling topped with sweetened sour cream. The two-temperature baking creates creamy texture without cracks.

Irish potato pie dessert with mashed potatoes, almonds, orange extract, eggs, and Irish whiskey. A historic Celtic sweet that turns spuds into a custard-like cake.

Kahlua chocolate nut squares pack coffee liqueur into a brown sugar bar studded with semi-sweet chocolate and walnuts, then crowned with browned butter Kahlua icing for a grown-up bake sale showstopper.

Lemon poppy seed biscotti twice-baked until crisp and golden with fresh lemon zest throughout. A crunchy Italian cookie perfect for dunking in tea or coffee.

Turn the gingerbread cookies into this delicious and light pudding.

Homemade fig newtons: a tender brown sugar and sour cream cookie dough wrapped around real homemade fig jam, baked in logs and sliced into soft bars. So much better than the boxed kind.

Brown sugar pound cake with a deep caramel note and a toasted-pecan frosting that drips down the sides. A dense, buttery tube cake from TV weatherman Willard Scott's kitchen.

No-bake oatmeal cookies made with strawberry gelatin, coconut, and chopped nuts. Cooked to soft-ball stage on the stovetop and dropped onto waxed paper to set. Quick, chewy, and fruity.