Dessert recipes

Three-layer butternut cake with tangy cream cheese frosting and chopped nuts. Rich buttermilk batter laced with butternut flavoring bakes up tender and moist, then gets slathered in a thick, nutty frosting that'll have folks lining up for seconds.

A juicy and scrumptious apple pie that tastes wonderful with any fruit topping or with the traditional whipped cream.

Traditional Middle Eastern semolina cake drenched in lemon syrup. This easy yogurt-based dessert bakes golden brown and soaks up fragrant citrus syrup for a moist, tender treat perfect with tea.

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.

No-bake fig and coconut candy balls with ground nuts and bright lemon zest. Naturally sweet, chewy, and rolled in finely chopped coconut for a vintage confection.

Invite your neighbors over to try this decadent cheesecake that is bound to make a good impression!

A delicious dish made with pearl barley, juicy apples and a bit of double cream that just might make you lucky like the Irish!

Chocolate mint pinwheel cookies with a two-tone spiral of vanilla and mint-chocolate dough, sliced thin and baked crisp with a melted chocolate coating on the bottom.

No-bake raspberry cream cheese pie with a decorative snowflake pastry top, sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, and almond extract. A stunning holiday dessert.

Fat-free pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving with a no-butter bread crumb crust, egg-white-only filling, and skim evaporated milk. A lighter holiday classic with all the warm spice.

Irmik helvasi: Turkish semolina halva infused with saffron milk, butter-toasted pistachios, and sweetened with sugar. A warm, fragrant dessert ready in 30 minutes.

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

A buttery, moist and delicious cake, whoever has it will definitely give you a big "wow".

Chocolate almond crisps with almond meringue cookies piped on parchment and sandwiched with a dark chocolate ganache. A French patisserie-style confection with crisp, nutty, chocolatey layers.

Towering deep-dish strawberry pie loaded with fresh whole berries set in a glossy cooked glaze. The classic American berry pie that needs no oven baking once the crust is done.

Flourless-style chocolate squares with melted unsweetened chocolate, cake flour, hazelnuts, and skim milk. Fudgy, nutty, and lower in fat than traditional brownies.