Dessert recipes

Crispy deep-fried dessert wontons with three tropical fillings: coconut-lemon, macadamia-ginger, and banana-honey. Hand-rolled dough twisted like candy wrappers and dusted in powdered sugar.

Milky Way candy bar cake with six melted candy bars in the batter, buttermilk, and chopped nuts. A rich, fudgy Bundt cake with deep caramel-chocolate flavor.

Microwave poached pears glazed with orange marmalade, brown sugar, and citrus zest, served chilled with a creamy yogurt sauce. A light, elegant fruit dessert.

Soft, cake-like apricot cookies with jewel-toned jam centers that bake up tender and light. Chopped dried apricots in the dough add chewy bits of fruit throughout each cookie.

Soft, spiced ginger cookies using prune butter to replace fat. Crackled sugar-coated tops with chewy centers, perfect for guilt-free snacking.

Cranberry mousse with whole cranberry sauce, crushed pineapple, sour cream, and pecans set in a gelatin mold. A tangy, creamy holiday dessert or side dish.

Surprise your dinner guests with this decadent lemon cake that is rich and moist.

Lemon filling for cakes with egg yolks, fresh lemon juice, zest, and butter. A tangy, silky curd that spreads between layers. Stovetop or microwave method included.

No-bake chocolate cream pie built from vanilla ice cream, milk, and instant pudding poured into graham cracker crusts and chilled until sliceable. Five ingredients, two pies.

Ruth's Whiskey Ice Box Cake is a no-bake vintage dessert: whiskey-spiked gelatin mousse layered between split ladyfingers and chilled overnight in a springform pan. A make-ahead showstopper.

Frosty Pumpkin Pie layers pecan ice cream and spiced pumpkin mousse in a gingersnap crust - a make-ahead frozen dessert that needs just 3 hours in the freezer.

Fudge brownie pie: a fudgy chocolate brownie filling with chopped nuts baked in a flaky pie shell. A cross between brownie and pie, served warm with ice cream.

Outstanding combination of cranberry sauce and cream cheese whipped together into this fluffy no-bake frozen pie recipe. It's love at first bite.

Two-ingredient palmier cookies made from puff pastry and sugar, folded and sliced into caramelized golden crescents. A classic French bakery cookie with shattering, flaky layers and a crunchy sugar crust.

Concord grape pie with 3 pounds of fresh grapes, skins and all, baked in a double crust with lemon zest. A fall harvest pie with intense grape flavor you can't get from a jar.

French apple honey pie built on a honey-spiked applesauce base, layered with Granny Smith slices in concentric rings, and finished with a glossy apricot glaze. Patisserie elegance with no top crust required.