Dessert recipes

Unlike New York style cheesecake, this cheese pie is much lighter and much lower fat; but it is still creamy, smooth and tasty, sour cream gives the extra zing, and the lemon zest brings the refreshing flavor.

Angel food cake layered with rum-soaked strawberries and white chocolate whipped cream, drizzled with orange juice. A no-bake showpiece that comes together in 30 minutes flat.

Apple cream pie with sliced apples baked in a cinnamon-nutmeg custard made from half-and-half and melted butter. A simpler, creamier take on classic apple pie.

Grand Ghirardelli fudge cake: a deeply chocolate two-layer cake made with premium cocoa for fudgy crumb and rich flavor. Bakery-quality chocolate cake from your home oven.

No-bake peanut butter cracker sandwiches dipped in melted white chocolate. A four-ingredient sweet-and-salty treat that takes 20 minutes and tastes like a homemade candy bar.

Chocolate Bread Pudding with Raspberry Sauce recipe

No-bake Twinkie cake layered with chocolate pudding, crushed Heath bars, and whipped topping. Four ingredients, zero oven time, and pure nostalgic fun.

Serve this cream with your favorite cake, or for filling, creamy and tasty.

Sugar-free apple pie sweetened entirely with frozen apple juice concentrate, no added sugar in sight. Cinnamon-spiced apples in a flaky double crust, a diabetic-friendly take on the classic.

Orange meringue pie, a sunny twist on lemon meringue with a silky fresh-orange custard, a flaky blind-baked crust, and a cloud of glossy toasted meringue. A splash of grenadine gives the filling its rosy glow.

Chocolate cake truffles made from crumbled devil's food cake mixed with cocoa butter, hazelnuts, and Baileys, then dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. Rich, boozy, and no-bake to assemble.

A proper Irish chocolate cake made with Guinness stout, cocoa, and dark brown sugar, sandwiched with a bright orange buttercream. Rich, malty, and a wee bit boozy.

Mock-chiffon chocolate cake with folded egg whites for an airy, light crumb, served with homemade chocolate whipped cream. Uses oil instead of butter for extra moisture.

Peaches and cream gelatin mold with fresh peaches, non-fat yogurt, and vanilla-orange extract. A light, sugar-free molded dessert with real fruit.

Classic four-ingredient shortbread cookies made with butter, sugar, flour, and a pinch of salt. Rubbed by hand into a crumbly dough, rolled thin, and baked golden in just 10 minutes.

Chocolate-dipped California figs stuffed with walnuts or marshmallows. An elegant no-bake candy with just three ingredients. Perfect for gift boxes.