Dessert recipes

This is a traditional Canadian sweet, much loved and admired. The origin of the recipe seems to be lost in the mists of time, though everyone seems to agree that it comes from the town of Nanaimo, in British Columbia.

Apple pie with apricot glaze layers tart Granny Smith apples over a custard pastry cream and finishes with a layer of apricot preserves under the top crust. A French-style twist on classic American apple pie.

Bizcochos are traditional New Mexican holiday cookies creamed with lard, scented with orange zest, baked golden, then rolled in cinnamon sugar. The state cookie of New Mexico for Christmas and weddings.

Halloween dead bones cookies are pillowy almond meringue-style cookies spiced with ground cloves, dusted in powdered sugar to look like ancient ghostly bones. A spooky kid-friendly Halloween treat from old European tradition.

Cherry pound cake studs a buttery, fine-crumbed Southern-style tube cake with chopped cherries and cherry extract. Classic special-occasion dessert with a tender, rich crumb.

Microwave chocolate pecan clusters with marshmallows and semi-sweet chips. Five ingredients, no baking, and ready to eat in under an hour. Makes 20 clusters.

Jumble berry pie with fresh blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries in a buttery single crust. A simple three-berry pie with a thick, bubbly filling and just five minutes of prep.

Mississippi mud cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with melted unsweetened chocolate, instant pudding and a generous pour of milk. Dark, dense and impossibly moist, dusted with confectioners' sugar.

Layered ice cream pie with butterscotch sauce: a graham-walnut crust layered with coffee and vanilla ice cream, topped with warm homemade butterscotch and toasted walnuts.

Quick fruit cobbler with canned peaches and apricots, tapioca for thickening, and Bisquick biscuit topping. A low-calorie dessert ready in 45 minutes with minimal prep.

Love apricots, and this double apricot bread was right up to my ally. The bread was so moist and delicious. Breakfast, snack, or dessert. Yum, yum!

German chocolate pound cake with a dense, buttery crumb made from cake flour, buttermilk, and melted German sweet chocolate. Baked low and slow in a tube pan for a tender, fine-textured slice.

Classic German Lebkuchen: spiced honey bars with almonds and candied citrus peel, glazed with lemon icing and dotted with cherries. Centuries-old Nuremberg Christmas tradition.

Chocolate-coconut cookies inspired by Almond Joy candy bars with sweetened condensed milk and whole almond garnish. No-fuss drop cookies ready in 12 minutes.

Homemade root beer cake with reduced root beer baked into the batter and a soaking glaze. This from-scratch recipe delivers pure root beer flavor in every tender crumb.

Babe's Surprise Apple Pie skips the top crust and crowns thinly sliced apples with a buttery brown sugar crumble topping instead. Cinnamon, lemon juice, and a hot oven do the rest.