Dessert/2 recipes

An Italian chocolate hazelnut cake from Turin with homemade gianduja paste, whipped chocolate cream filling, apricot jam, and a brandy-liqueur soak. A show-stopping patisserie-level dessert.

Garlic chocolate chip cookies with blanched garlic cloves soaked in maple syrup, mixed into a buttery dough with brown sugar, nuts, and chocolate chips.

Classic anise pizzelles made with a full ounce of anise extract, butter, and a touch of lemon. Thin, crisp Italian wafer cookies pressed in a pizzelle iron in 30 seconds each.

No-bake paradise peach pie with fresh peach slices layered over a blended pineapple, pecan, and date filling. Vegan, no refined sugar, and ready without ever turning on the oven.

One Bowl Coffee Honey Cake with Chocolate Chips and Nuts recipe

Vanilla-frosted fudge cookies are low-fat chocolate drops made with cocoa, oil, and egg whites, finished with white frosting and a cocoa dust. A skinny bakery-style cookie with brownie-like chew.

Like the name says, this is a spectacularly delicious and rich cheesecake that everyone will give you rave reviews.

Orange slice fruitcake with candied orange, pecans, dates, and coconut in a buttermilk batter. Baked low and slow, then soaked with a citrus butter glaze.

Chocolate, orange and cream create this delicious and moist bread pudding that has been popular all year round at our place!

Strawberry rhubarb custard pie suspends diced rhubarb and sliced strawberries in a silky egg-and-flour custard, baked into a single tender shell. The classic spring duo with creamy backbone.

Chocolate cheesecake on a buttery Oreo crumb crust, spiked with amaretto and finished with chocolate-sour-cream glaze. Dramatic dinner-party dessert topped with toasted almonds and chocolate curls.

Mint chocolate cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust crowned with a billowy marshmallow meringue toasted golden. Three layers of texture in every fork-full.

Shredded carrots, crushed pineapple, and chopped nuts fold into spiced cake batter for a moist bundt that's cinnamon-scented and ready in under an hour.

Best apple pie ever! Loved the taste! I bought the deep dish pie crust and used that, and I found out that I only needed 1/2 the amount of apples. This recipe is worth trying out!

Melomakarona, traditional Greek honey cookies made with olive oil, butter, and orange juice, dipped in warm honey syrup and topped with walnuts and cinnamon.

Irish whiskey pie is a no-bake chiffon dessert: a light, boozy whiskey-spiked custard set with gelatin, folded with whipped cream, and chilled in a pie shell under shaved chocolate. A grown-up treat.