Dessert/8 recipes

Chocolate cocoa cookies with a Rolo candy hidden inside, topped with finely ground nuts. Bite through the crackled shell to hit molten caramel.

Fresh berry filling and topping make this delicious shortcake outstanding.

Baked sweet risotto with arborio rice, ripe bananas, brown sugar, cinnamon, and creme de cacao. A creamy, hands-off rice pudding dessert that bakes covered for one hour.

Pear and ginger pudding layered with butter-sauteed pears, broken gingersnap cookies, and heavy cream, then baked until bubbling. A warm, spiced fruit dessert.

Apple turnovers with a tender homemade cream cheese pastry, cinnamon-spiced apple filling, and a dusting of powdered sugar. The cream cheese in the dough makes it impossibly flaky.

Victorian honey cakes from an 1872 recipe, made with butter, honey, and egg yolks, topped with heather honey and ground almonds. Light, tender, and warmly sweet.

A lighter blueberry upside-down cake made with egg whites, oatmeal, and a whisper of cardamom. The berries bake on the bottom and become a glossy topping when you flip it out.

Jamocha rum butter cake soaks devil's food cake with a hot rum-coffee-butter syrup, then crowns it with whipped chocolate-coffee frosting and shaved chocolate. Boozy, moist, and rich.

Creamy stovetop white fudge made with marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla. Cut into squares, roll into logs, or dip in chocolate for a sweet homemade candy gift everyone will love.

Silky no-bake cheesecake flavored with puréed apricots and set with gelatin in a chocolate crumb crust for an easy make-ahead dessert.

Fudgy brownie bars loaded with chopped pecans and topped with golden toasted marshmallows. From bowl to oven to mouth in 35 minutes. A bake sale knockout.

Easy cherries jubilee ice cream pie folds chopped maraschino cherries into vanilla ice cream and freezes it in a chocolate crumb crust. Three-ingredient frozen dessert, no baking required.

Coffee-spiked red devil's food cake with cocoa, hot coffee, buttermilk, and a hit of red food coloring. Deep chocolate flavor with a striking red-tinted crumb.

Silky Chinese almond pudding made with rice flour, almond powder, and sliced dates. Served warm with a melted ice cream consistency, this elegant dessert comes together in 30 minutes.

Big-batch melon and citrus fruit salad with honeydew, cantaloupe, oranges, grapefruit, pineapple, bananas, and cherries in fresh orange juice. Feeds 20 and keeps a week.

No-bake chocolate pudding pie layered with stewed California figs, a hint of coffee and cinnamon, toasted almonds, and vanilla whipped cream. A showstopper dessert that comes together without turning on the oven.