Dessert/6 recipes

Raw Fruit Pie or Tart with Apple-Juice Glaze recipe

Chocolate and strawberry stuffed French toast: whole-wheat sandwiches filled with ricotta, fresh berries, and chocolate chips, griddled until golden. A lighter twist on weekend brunch indulgence.

Berry chocolate pie: a microwave-easy chocolate ganache layer in a baked shell, topped with sliced strawberries folded into whipped cream. Two layers, fast assembly, all finish.

Amaretto-spiked cream cheese sauce spooned over fresh berries. No-bake dessert that's creamy, tangy, and boozy in just 10 minutes.

Hand print sugar cookies traced from paper cutouts of each family member's hand. Refrigerated dough shortcut, decorated with icings and candies. Memory-keeper recipe.

Flambed ice cream sauce of buttered green grapes, hot chiles, rum, honey, and warm spices. A sweet-heat dessert topping that takes 20 minutes and shocks the palate awake.

Pecan angel pie folds toasty pecans and graham cracker crumbs into stiff meringue, then bakes into a chewy-crisp dessert topped with whipped cream or ice cream. No flour, no fat in the base, just nuts and crumbs holding sweet meringue together.

Crisp Italian pizzelle cookies with cocoa and cinnamon pressed into lacy, wafer-thin rounds. A chocolate twist on the classic holiday wafer cookie.

Versoffene Jungfern: a German dessert sauce of spiced red wine reduced with cinnamon, clove, and lemon zest, poured hot over fresh dumplings. Simple, warming, and ready in 40 minutes.

Frozen layered dessert with chocolate wafer crust, vanilla frozen yogurt, raspberry sorbet, and homemade fudge sauce. An impressive make-ahead springform pan dessert.

Honey lemon cake soaked in spiced white wine syrup with cinnamon and cloves, topped with honey yogurt cream and toasted almonds. Greek-inspired easy cake.

Granny's Christmas punch: grape and strawberry soda blended with pineapple, sugar, and lemon, frozen, then thawed to a slushy chill. A fizzy, fruity, kid-friendly party punch that's a holiday-table tradition.

Snickers bar brownie cake with a German chocolate cake mix crust, melted candy center, and crumbly chocolate streusel top. Four-ingredient dump cake magic.

Homemade fig newtons sandwich a soft fig filling between tender vanilla cookie dough layers. The classic boxed-cookie remade from scratch with just nine pantry ingredients.

Upside-down rhubarb cobbler with the biscuit batter on the bottom, sugared rhubarb piled on top, and a buttery streusel crown. The cake rises up through the fruit during baking.

Irish rutabaga pudding baked from mashed rutabaga with bread crumbs, egg, butter, and a touch of sugar. A traditional side dish with a creamy, custard-like texture and earthy sweetness.