Dessert Recipes

A perfect dessert in summer and everyone loves it.

Elegant meringue pie shell filled with fresh strawberries, chocolate drizzle, and billowy whipped cream. This crispy, nutty crust bakes overnight in a cooling oven.

Strawberry rice cream with double-boiler vanilla custard rice folded into whipped cream and fresh strawberries. Lighter and more elegant than standard rice pudding, served chilled.

Old-fashioned coconut fudge candy shaped into little haystacks. Brown sugar, butter, and shredded coconut cooked to soft-ball stage, then dropped onto wax paper. Makes about 60 pieces.

Classic apple strudel filled with thin-sliced apples, rum-soaked raisins, pine nuts, lemon, and cinnamon, rolled in tender pastry. A rustic Alpine-Italian dessert with a flaky, golden crust.

Pecan brownies made with melted semi-sweet chocolate and a full cup of dark brown sugar for deep, fudgy texture and a shiny crackled top. A bakery-style brownie with toasted nuts.

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 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.

Tangy lemon drops are tender shortbread slice-and-bake cookies made with butter, cake flour, lemon zest, and a snowy dusting of powdered sugar. Four ingredients, melt-in-your-mouth crumb.

Classic double-crust apple pie packed with tart, juicy apples and warm cinnamon and nutmeg, baked golden until the filling bubbles through the vents. The from-scratch fall pie done right.

Rich chocolate mousse made with semisweet chocolate, Kahlua, instant espresso, whipped cream, and a splash of Grand Marnier. Silky, intensely chocolatey, and spiked with coffee and orange.

The original baked whole pumpkin pie, custard filling baked right inside a hollowed pumpkin. A heritage colonial technique that turns the shell into both vessel and dessert.

These are my favorite brownies ever! Yummy rich brownie nestled between a soft sweet oatmeal crust and a thick fudgy chocolate frosting. Might cause food coma.

Three layer pumpkin pie with a spiced pumpkin filling, brown sugar pecan streusel, and a creamy vanilla cream cheese topping. Makes two showstopper pies for Thanksgiving.

Chocolate peanut butter cake baked in a coffee can inside a slow cooker. Milk chocolate cake mix, smooth peanut butter, eggs, and nuts steamed to fudgy perfection.