Dessert/4 recipes

A rich chocolate bread pudding made with pumpernickel, currants, and a custard of egg yolks, cream, and two kinds of chocolate. Baked in a water bath until silky and set.

Pogen's gingersnaps deliver a thin, crisp Swedish-style cookie spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves over a deep molasses base. Press into flat rounds and bake quick for snap-crisp edges.

If you're thinking of entering a baking contest, then try this delicious and decadent cake that may help you win first prize!

Chocolate decadence cake, a near-flourless, truffle-dense round of melted chocolate and butter. Baked briefly so the center stays fudgy, cloaked in whipped cream and pooled with tart raspberry sauce.

This is a wonderful and light dessert to offer people as a contrast to the heavy holiday meals and desserts normally offered at this time.

No-bake chocolate mint torte with a chocolate cookie crumb crust and a silky chocolate-peppermint filling lightened with whipped cream. A dinner-party finisher that chills 3 hours and slices like silk.

Original red velvet cake with old-school ermine frosting: tender buttermilk crumb tinted deep red, finished with the cooked-flour boiled milk icing that came before cream cheese took over.

Rhubarb and nut streusel cake with thickened tart rhubarb filling sandwiched between buttery cake layers and topped with crumbly streusel. A spring coffee cake that turns rhubarb season into dessert.

Sugar and spice molasses cookies for Christmas. Soft, chewy, rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. Cinnamon, cloves, and ginger for warm holiday flavor.

Three-ingredient chilled coffee caramel pudding with caramelized sweetened condensed milk, hot coffee, and chopped pecans. A retro dulce de leche dessert served in sherbet glasses.

Pink marble pudding: rhubarb-raspberry puree layered with vanilla whipped cream in dessert glasses. A vintage parfait-style dessert with a fig cookie thickener.

Tender tube cake with walnuts and orange zest, soaked in amaretto-orange syrup while still hot. Moist, boozy, and bursting with citrus flavor.

Pour la France's Fudge Caramel Cake - Express recipe

Maple cinnamon compound butter with vanilla and a touch of salt. A no-cook spread for pancakes, waffles, biscuits, and warm toast.

Surprise your family this Christmas with these decorative cookies that can bring out the holiday cheer in everyone.

Acadian cranberry pie, a Nova Scotian tradition: tart cranberries cooked with sugar and enriched with egg and butter, baked in a lattice crust and served with cream. Sweet-tart, rustic, and old-fashioned.