Dessert Recipes

Angel pound cake combines the richness of a butter pound cake with a lighter, more tender crumb. Made with butter, shortening, and a hint of lemon extract, baked in a tube pan for an hour and 15 minutes.

Three-layer coconut cake with a tangy lemon-lime curd filling and clouds of sweetened whipped cream frosting. A bakery-worthy showpiece with bright citrus contrast against tender vanilla layers.

Pumpkin spice cheesecake with graham crust and broiled coconut-almond crunch topping. Impressive fall dessert that requires 4 hours of chilling before serving.

Coffee toffee pie with a chocolate-walnut shortbread crust and a silky uncooked chocolate-coffee mousse filling, topped with Kahlua-spiked whipped cream. A retro showstopper.

Quebec maple syrup pie (tarte au sirop d'erable) with a custard filling of pure maple syrup, cream, and eggs in a flaky shell. Five ingredients, intensely sweet, purely Canadian.

Authentic Danish pastry (Dansk Wienerbrod) dough: laminated yeast pastry rolled and folded multiple times to create flaky, buttery layers. The base recipe for Cocks' Combs, Spandauers, Cremeboller, and every other classic Danish bakery treat.

Brownie refrigerator cake layers a fudgy brownie base with sweet cream cheese, chocolate-vanilla pudding, and billows of whipped topping, all finished with chocolate. A make-ahead, chilled layered dessert that's pure indulgence.

An easy-to-make cake which is a perfect way to welcome the Autumn season!

Chocolate Kahlua bundt cake builds on a doctored cake mix base with sour cream, instant pudding, and ½ cup coffee liqueur. Dense, moist, deeply chocolate, and laughably easy.

Light bundt cake with layers of cinnamon apples swirled through applesauce batter. Orange juice and nutmeg brighten the crumb, while a cinnamon sugar crust bakes on top.

Make this delicious coconut cake with fresh coconuts that makes the cake amazingly tasty and moist. Frost the cake with the fresh coconut meringue topping.

A frozen vanilla mousse with just four ingredients: whipped cream, egg whites, sugar, and vanilla. Light as air, frozen until firm, and served soft at room temperature.

Jack Daniel's chocolate ice cream folds whiskey into a French custard base with vanilla bean and melted chocolate. Boozy, smooth, scoopable Tennessee whiskey dessert.

Elvis Presley's sweet potato pie sweetened with brown sugar and nutmeg, bound with evaporated milk and eggs, and built with a russet potato slipped into the mash for old-school Southern body.

Fried Mexican ice cream coats frozen ice cream balls in cinnamon-sugar cornflake crumbs, then flash-fries for a crunchy hot shell over cold creamy center. Restaurant-style dessert at home.

Chocolate mayonnaise loaf cake is a Depression-era American classic with an unbelievably moist crumb. The mayo (which is just eggs and oil) replaces butter and eggs in this fudgy 8-ingredient bake.