Dessert/7 recipes

Korean jujube rice cakes made with just two ingredients: dried jujubes kneaded with glutinous rice flour and steamed. Soft, chewy, and naturally sweet with no added sugar.

Old-fashioned buttermilk pie with a creamy, tangy custard filling and a candy-crackle top. The Southern dessert that turns six pantry ingredients into a slice of church-supper history.

Little phyllo cheesecakes with crispy buttered pastry shells filled with orange cream cheese and topped with orange marmalade. No-bake filling, make-ahead friendly bite-sized desserts.

Chocolate angel food layer cake baked in heart-shape pans. Fat-free, cloud-light, cocoa-scented sponge made with egg whites and cake flour. No butter, no yolks.

An authentic Dutch cheesecake made with grated Gouda cheese instead of cream cheese, lightened with beaten egg whites and studded with golden raisins. Baked in a shortbread tart crust with lemon.

Cold orange truffle souffles: an airy Grand Marnier orange mousse set in collared ramekins to rise like a baked souffle, each hiding a chocolate truffle in its center. A no-bake, make-ahead showstopper dessert.

Sunny citrus cubes: bright orange and grapefruit juice set with gelatin into firm, tangy jelly squares with a walnut crunch. A diabetic-friendly no-cook treat.

Genoise sponge cake soaked in Amaretto and filled with whipped chocolate ganache. A classic French-Italian dessert with lemon zest in the cake and piped chocolate decoration.

Classic double-crust apple pie with cinnamon, nutmeg, and fresh lemon juice in a buttery pate brisee shell. Three pounds of Northern Spy or McIntosh apples baked golden and bubbling.

Dense white chocolate cake with six eggs and just a quarter cup of flour, topped with fresh raspberries. An almost flourless, intensely rich cake with a fudgy, truffle-like texture from melted white chocolate and butter.

Russian tea cakes (also called Mexican wedding cookies): buttery nut-studded shortbread balls rolled twice in powdered sugar. A classic holiday cookie tin staple in 30 minutes.

Corn flake macaroons with grated peanuts and almond extract. Flourless drop cookies that bake up crispy on the edges and chewy in the center. No coconut, no flour, just crunch.

Passover loukoumades are Greek-Jewish fried dough balls made with matzo meal instead of flour, soaked in spiced orange-lemon syrup and crowned with crushed pistachios.

Old-fashioned cold water cake with muscat raisins, warm spices, and no eggs or butter. A Depression-era boiled raisin cake that bakes up dense, spiced, and deeply satisfying.

Easy to make and turns out moist and fluffy using pistachio pudding mix.

Apple molasses pecan pie marries two Thanksgiving classics into one. Sliced apples and toasted pecans bound in a brandy-spiked molasses filling, finished with a buttery lattice crust.