Dessert/5 recipes

Savory cheddar cheesecake with cream cheese, sharp cheddar, cottage cheese, ham, jalapeños, and scallions baked in a breadcrumb crust. A bold, spicy appetizer that's anything but sweet.

This pie is the perfect balance of sweet and tart with a lovely lattice crust:)

Classic creamy cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, vanilla and almond extract, and sour cream for tang. Baked low and slow with a cooling oven rest for a crack-free top.

Kolache cookies with a cream cheese pastry dough folded around fruit jam and dusted with powdered sugar. A three-ingredient Czech-style pastry that melts in your mouth.

Creamy raspberry-glazed cheesecake on a cinnamon graham cracker crust with sour cream, lemon zest, and a fresh raspberry glaze finished with framboise. Rich, tangy, and berry-topped.

A no-bake cheesecake with a gooey marshmallow base and a creamy chocolate filling set in a graham cracker crust. Blends up in minutes, chills in two hours, and never sees the inside of an oven.

Low-fat cheesecake made with overnight-strained yogurt and blended cottage cheese instead of cream cheese. Dense, silky, and tangy on a graham cracker crust with no cream cheese at all.

Buttery shortbread-style bars layered with raspberry jam and chopped walnuts, topped with a crumbly streusel. A Central European bakery classic that makes over 3 dozen.

Mincemeat sundae pie blends fruit mincemeat into vanilla ice cream, packs it into a vanilla wafer-pecan crust, and finishes each slice with warm homemade caramel sauce. A festive frozen twist on a Christmas classic.

Amazing White Chocolate Mousse and Kiwi Sauce recipe

Grand Marnier orange liqueur cake with sour cream, chopped nuts, and slivered almonds. A rich, tender tube cake soaked in a boozy orange syrup for a sophisticated celebration dessert.

Homemade maple syrup ice cream served in crisp sablé pastry barquettes with a maple custard sauce. A French-style plated dessert made from real vanilla beans and pure maple syrup.

Danish rice pudding (risalamande) with almond extract, folded whipped cream, and fresh raspberry sauce. A light, creamy Scandinavian Christmas dessert topped with whole almonds.

This old-fashioned cookie from Gretchen D'Antico of Merton has a nice flavor and is even better dipped in white chocolate.

Rolled oat icebox cookies. Slice-and-bake dough with butter, brown sugar and quick oats for crisp, lightly caramelized cookies made from a log you can keep in the fridge.

Chocolate custard chocolate cheesecake combines a rich pudding-based chocolate filling with cream cheese and folded egg whites, topped with sour cream over a graham cracker crust. Deeply chocolatey, custard-soft.