Dessert/5 recipes

Touchdown football cake: a round yellow cake mix transformed into a football shape with milk chocolate frosting and piped vanilla laces. The Super Bowl party showpiece kids and adults both love.

Frozen fruit salad with vanilla pudding, whipped cream, pineapple, pecans, and fruit cocktail. Make-ahead dessert that serves 10, perfect for holidays.

Classic apple strudel filled with thin-sliced apples, rum-soaked raisins, pine nuts, lemon, and cinnamon, rolled in tender pastry. A rustic Alpine-Italian dessert with a flaky, golden crust.

Frozen banana peanut butter sandwiches on graham crackers. Just three ingredients and 20 minutes to make a batch of 26 kid-friendly frozen snacks.

Rich pastry crust made with lard and schmaltz (chicken fat) for an extra-flaky, savory pie shell. The traditional savory pie pastry built on rendered animal fats for unmatched flavor and tenderness.

Pots de creme pie with a pound of dark Belgian chocolate, heavy cream, half-and-half, and ten egg yolks set into a graham cracker crust. Decadent French chocolate pie for serious chocolate lovers.

Single-crust shortening pie shell with the option of an old-fashioned snow cream filling: instant pudding, milk, and sour cream whisked into a frosty no-cook pie. Easy weeknight dessert.

Margarita ice cream pie folds tequila, triple sec, and frozen lemonade concentrate into softened vanilla ice cream, then freezes solid in a graham cracker crust. The frozen cocktail in pie form for summer parties.

Lemon meringue pie sweetened with Fruit Sweet (peach, pear, pineapple juice concentrate) instead of refined sugar. Tangy lemon curd under vanilla meringue with no cane sugar in sight.

Mary's Boston cream pie reimagines the classic with flaky pastry instead of cake, sandwiching a rich vanilla cream filling and topping it with chocolate glaze. The top crust is pre-cut into wedges so every slice cuts clean.

Chocolate butter cookie dough adds melted unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate to a master holiday butter cookie recipe. Roll, cut, and shape it into pinwheels, classic cut-outs, Linzer sandwiches, or sugar-coated crescents.

Classic vinegar pie with a smooth egg-rich custard filling, Depression-era pantry baking that mimics lemon pie using kitchen vinegar. Six ingredients, sweet-tart, satisfying.

A tasty jelly that tastes amazing with plain or toasted bread. Can also be stored in jars and used as Christmas gifts for your relatives!

A puffed, soufflé-like baked pudding with semi-sweet chocolate, ground almonds, kirsch, and whole sour cherries. Beaten egg whites give it lift while the cherry brandy brings authentic Black Forest flavor.

Strawberry rhubarb pie with quick-cooking tapioca for a thick, glossy filling under a buttery lattice crust. Tart and sweet spring fruit pie with a clean slice every time.

Silky chocolate Bavarian cream pie with a crunchy chocolate wafer crust, billowy whipped cream, and a cloud-light custard set with gelatin. No-bake elegance for any occasion.