Dessert/2 recipes

Blackberry brandy sour cream pound cake built around dissolved jello, brandy, and a quartet of extracts. A boozy, jewel-toned bundt cake with deep berry flavor and a tender pound-cake crumb.

Cooked tiramisu with a safe, heat-tempered egg yolk custard, ricotta cheese, whipped cream, and coffee-soaked ladyfingers. A make-ahead Italian dessert that freezes beautifully.

So easy, perfect for christmas, tastes amazing. Just like the keg.

Brown butter blackberry charlotte with ladyfingers, eggs, and vanilla baked until crusty on top and custard-smooth inside. A French-style dessert that freezes beautifully for up to 4 months.

Traditional plum dumplings made with potato dough, farina, and fresh plums stuffed with sugar. Boiled until tender and topped with buttered bread crumbs.

Plains peach honey: a thick, clear old-fashioned Southern peach spread made with just two ingredients, ripe peaches and brown sugar. No pectin, no lemon, pure peach flavor.

Classic Toll House marble squares: a buttery blondie base swirled with melted chocolate chips and chopped nuts. The melt-and-marble trick gives every bite ribbons of chocolate without overpowering.

Chocolate truffle cake à la Café de Paris: layered chocolate cake split and filled with a glossy chocolate-fondant-cream ganache, chilled overnight for clean truffle slices.

Gery's cheesecake is a classic New York-style cream cheese filling baked in a deep-dish graham crust, finished with a tangy sour cream topping. The diner-counter cheesecake your grandmother kept in her recipe box.

Decadent amaretto chocolate cheesecake with an amaretti cookie crust, dark chocolate-almond filling spiked with liqueur, and crunchy amaretti folded into the batter. Italian-inspired showstopper.

A traditional English fruit loaf where dried fruit soaks overnight in hot tea, then bakes low and slow with self-rising flour, mixed spice, nutmeg, and marmalade. No butter needed. Keeps brilliantly.

Chilled peaches in sweet white wine syrup with lemon juice. An elegant, four-ingredient French-style dessert that comes together in minutes.

Frozen mint cream pie with melted marshmallows, creme de menthe, and whipped cream in a chocolate cookie crust. No-bake, make-ahead, and topped with grated chocolate.

Old-fashioned spice cake loaded with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger, plus chopped nuts and plump raisins baked into a tender loaf with a wooden-skewer-clean crumb.

Better Than Sex Cake #3, the poke cake version: German chocolate cake riddled with sweetened condensed milk and butterscotch sauce, then topped with crushed Heath bars and whipped cream.

A proper British boiled suet pudding with currants, wrapped in a pudding cloth and simmered for two hours. Spotted Dog is old-fashioned English comfort at its finest, served warm with custard.