Dessert Recipes

Easy Valentine's Day sugar cookies frosted with pink icing.

An easy no-bake banana pudding layered with vanilla wafers, fresh bananas, and a fluffy pudding folded with whipped cream and sweetened condensed milk. The make-ahead Southern dessert everyone loves.

A fudgy chocolate brownie cake steamed in a pot-within-a-pot using shelf-stable ingredients like dried eggs and buttermilk powder. Ideal for camping, off-grid baking, or when you don't have an oven.

Slow cooker rice pudding with bourbon stirred in after cooking, plus golden raisins, lemon zest, nutmeg, and vanilla. Creamy, hands-off, and served lukewarm with sweetened whipped cream.

Foolproof cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, creamy filling blended smooth in a food processor, and a tangy sour cream topping. No water bath needed, no fussy technique.

No-cook tofu cheesecake with a Grape-Nuts crust sweetened by apple juice concentrate and honey-vanilla filling. Dairy-free, vegetarian, and richer the longer it chills.

Mandarin orange cheesecake wrapped in crackling phyllo pastry, filled with cream cheese and ricotta, then soaked in orange blossom syrup for a Middle Eastern twist on a classic.

Chocolate chip pumpkin cheesecake: silky pumpkin-spice cream cheese filling studded with mini chocolate chips over a chocolate cookie crust, garnished with real chocolate leaves. A showstopping fall dessert.

Crustless pumpkin pie spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and allspice, lightened with egg whites and evaporated milk. All the creamy custard you love while skipping the heavy crust. A lighter holiday favorite.

An easy plain cheesecake with just five ingredients: Neufchatel cheese, sugar, eggs, and vanilla poured into a graham cracker crust. No water bath, no fuss, just mix, bake, and chill into a creamy slice.

Irish Porter Cake is a dense, dark fruit cake made with Guinness, currants, raisins, mixed peel, and warm spices. Bakes for up to 3 hours, then rests a full week before cutting.

Black Forest cheesecake layers chocolate wafer crust, almond-scented chocolate cream cheese filling, and cherry pie topping with whipped cream. The German classic, cheesecake-style.

Two-layer chocolate orange cheesecake with a chocolate wafer-cinnamon crust, dark chocolate base, and Grand Marnier orange top. Boxed-cake elegance for a dinner party showpiece.

Layered apple cake with a buttery crust, tangy cream cheese filling, sliced apples, and silky custard topping crowned with pecans. A showstopper baked in a springform pan.

Orange cake made in the slow cooker with just 4 ingredients: cake mix, orange juice, eggs, and fresh orange zest. A hands-off, oven-free cake that serves eight.

Fresh fruit pie with blueberries, strawberries, or peaches set in cornstarch-thickened glaze: whipped cream lining the crust, fruit filling on top, chilled until firm and sliceable.