Dessert recipes

No-bake pineapple cheese pie with cream cheese, sour cream, crushed pineapple, and lemon juice set in a graham cracker crust. A retro tropical cheesecake-style pie made entirely in the blender.

Peach sour cream pie with fresh peaches baked into a brown sugar custard tinged with orange zest. A late-summer fruit pie that trades the lattice top for silky cream.

Creamy caramel custard (flan) made with cream cheese, condensed milk, evaporated milk, and vanilla, baked in a water bath over caramelized sugar. Lighter with fat-free milks.

Double-chocolate cheesecake with cooked chocolate pudding folded into the cream cheese filling, baked in a graham cracker crust, and topped with tangy sour cream. Creamy, dense, and deeply chocolatey from edge to center.

Rich chocolate drop cookies with a sour cream batter and glossy chocolate-coffee icing drizzled on top. Old-fashioned bakery-style cookies that melt on your tongue.

Quick toffee chocolate cake assembled from store-bought pound cake split and filled with chocolate-sour cream frosting and crushed English toffee. Ready in 25 minutes.

A rich, sour-cream dough is laden with poppyseeds and braided into 5-inch sticks.

Maple cloud cake: ethereal egg-foam sponge sweetened with pure maple syrup and crowned with whipped maple-meringue icing. A Quebec-Canadian classic, all maple, no refined sugar.

Lemon coriander crescent cookies: buttery, powder-dusted shortbread scented with ground coriander and bright lemon zest. An unexpected spice pairing for the holiday cookie tin.

Roasted red pepper mustard blends fire-charred bell peppers with mustard seeds, sherry, red wine, and honey. A complex artisan condiment for sandwiches, charcuterie boards, and grilled meats.

Almond spice cookies with allspice, orange zest, and ground almonds in a tender cake-flour dough. Brushed with egg glaze for shine, these bake up delicately spiced and shortbread-soft.

Hazelnut spiral cookies with a buttery shortbread-style dough rolled around toasted ground hazelnuts, sugar, and warm spices. Slice-and-bake elegance.

Light and airy pumpkin chiffon pie with a gelatin-set pumpkin custard folded with fluffy egg whites and topped with whipped cream. A silky alternative to dense pumpkin pie.

Cottage cheese blended with pumpkin purée, brown sugar, and warm spices makes a lighter, creamy filling for this graham cracker crust pie. Low-fat pumpkin pie that still satisfies.

Crockpot pumpkin bread baked inside canning jars for cylindrical loaves. Pumpkin pie spice, brown sugar, currants, and a wet pumpkin batter. Edible gift idea.

Plum good pie with fresh plum wedges arranged like petals over a buttery from-scratch crust, dusted with cinnamon sugar, and bound with beaten eggs into a custard-fruit hybrid.