Dessert Recipes

Raspberry sour cream pie with five cups of fresh berries under a thick sour cream-flour-sugar topping that bakes into a chewy almost-cobbler crust. Single-crust pie with a no-fail spread-on top.

No-bake peanut butter treats with oats, powdered sugar, and your choice of raisins, coconut, chocolate chips, or peanuts. Mix, drop, and set. No oven needed.

White chocolate fruit tart with a buttery shortbread crust, creamy white chip and cream cheese filling, and glazed fresh fruit on top. A stunning no-fuss dessert.

French apple spice cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, chopped walnuts, and raisins. An oil-based one-bowl cake that starts by macerating apples in sugar.

Dainty sandwich cookies are tender butter rounds coated with almond-sugar tops and filled with raspberry jam or chocolate. A classic European tea-cookie tray pick.

Pineapple lemon fruit filling for Japanese fruitcake, cooked custard-style in a double boiler with toasted pecans. The signature Southern holiday cake glue.

French pear pie with sliced Bartlett pears, orange juice concentrate, and a cinnamon-ginger crumb topping. A rustic, crumble-topped fall dessert with warm spice.

Lemon meringue angel food cake with homemade lemon curd filling and glossy Italian meringue frosting. A three-component showpiece cake for serious bakers who want a stunning result.

Microwave rum cake with devil's food layers soaked in rum, apricot preserves in the middle, and fluffy Italian-style meringue frosting. Retro dessert, updated speed.

Chocolate carrot cake made with whole wheat flour, cocoa powder, grated carrots, and cinnamon. Egg-free, dairy-free, and naturally moist from the carrots and boiling water.

Meersburger Kirschen-Dessert (Cherry Desert) recipe

Three-layer moist chocolate cake with whipped egg whites folded into the batter for an airy crumb. Filled and frosted with mocha frosting for a classic from-scratch celebration cake.

Chocolate meringue cookies with a plain meringue center, baked low and slow until crisp and light as air. Just four ingredients and naturally fat-free.

Chocolate peanut butter frosting made with cocoa powder, peanut butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar. A no-cook, no-butter frosting with rich chocolate-peanut flavor.

Italian blueberry gelato made with a real egg yolk custard, pureed fresh blueberries, lemon zest, and whipped cream folded in before churning.

Devil's food cake bakes a deep cocoa layer cake with a separated-egg method for extra lift, then tops it with classic boiled chocolate fudge frosting. A tall, old-fashioned chocolate showstopper.