Dessert Recipes

Low-fat chocolate mousse skips the cream and yolks, using skim milk, cocoa, gelatin, and whipped egg whites for an airy diet-friendly dessert. Sugar or sweetener, your choice.

A clever single-serving microwave pavlova rolled with whipped topping and fresh strawberries. Light, crisp meringue meets soft fruit in this low-calorie, gluten-free treat that's ready in 20 minutes.

Chocolity Poppers are chocolate marshmallow popcorn bars loaded with salted peanuts, baked until chewy. A sticky, crunchy, no-fuss treat that kids and adults demolish equally fast.

No-bake rum balls made with crushed vanilla wafers, pecans, cocoa, powdered sugar, and real rum. A classic Christmas cookie tin staple rolled in powdered sugar.

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Soft drop cookies made with mashed cooked carrots and shredded coconut, topped with a bright orange butter icing. Makes 4 dozen, great for holiday cookie trays and bake sales.

Roasted pears in caramel cream with just 4 ingredients: firm pears, sugar, butter, and heavy cream. Baked at high heat until the sugar caramelizes, then finished with cream.

Filled butter ring cookies sandwich apricot preserves between two shortbread rounds, the top one cut with a thimble window, dusted with powdered sugar. Linzer-style holiday classic.

No-bake cherry cheesecake pie with fluffy cream cheese filling, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon juice in a graham cracker crust. Topped with cherry pie filling.

No-bake cherry cheese pie with whipped cream cheese, condensed milk, and lemon juice in a buttery graham cracker crust. Ready in 20 minutes plus chill time.

Ground pork peanut butter cookies made with lard, browned pork, cinnamon, and orange zest. A savory-sweet heritage cookie recipe unlike anything in your cookie jar.

Big, bakery-style chocolate malted cookies loaded with both semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips plus malted milk powder and chocolate syrup. That old-fashioned malt shop flavor in cookie form.

Cake made from Polenta and Lemon Aspen and served with cream, riberries and rosella confit.

Speedy chocolate cookies made with cocoa powder and corn syrup, no chilling needed. Dip in water then granulated sugar for sparkly tops that crackle as they bake.

Grilled pound cake topped with a warm balsamic-strawberry glaze made from brown sugar, maple syrup, and fresh berries. Served with vanilla ice cream for an easy summer dessert.

Heavenly sauce folds egg yolks and powdered sugar into whipped cream with dried figs, toasted almonds, and crystallized ginger. A no-cook dessert topping for ice cream or cake.