Dessert/5 recipes

Vegan brownies with chocolate sauce bake into a self-saucing pudding cake with no eggs and no dairy. Soy milk and oil keep the crumb tender, while a layer of cocoa, brown sugar, and boiling water poured over the batter sinks down into a fudgy hot sauce as it bakes.

Caramel pecan pie with a silky custard filling and billowy meringue topping. Caramelized sugar, toasted pecans, and vanilla custard pour into a flaky crust for a Southern-style holiday dessert.

No-bake coconut candy balls with a melted chocolate center, made from just 5 ingredients. A prize-winning recipe that's freezer-friendly and looks stunning on holiday cookie trays.

A no-bake strawberry banana pie with a fluffy gelatin and whipped topping filling layered over sliced bananas in a graham cracker crust. Chill it, slice it, done.

Apple pie with a coconut walnut crunch topping that bakes up golden and crispy. Cinnamon-spiced apples nestled in a flaky crust with a buttery streusel loaded with shredded coconut and chopped walnuts.

Soft, spiced rhubarb drop cookies with warm cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, plus walnuts, raisins, and a kick of crystallized ginger. A clever way to use up springtime rhubarb stalks.

Triple chip brownies loaded with semi-sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, and butterscotch chips in a fudgy bittersweet chocolate batter with walnuts. Six cups of chips total. These are not messing around.

Cream Peanut Butter Pie with Chocolate Coffee Topping recipe

Hamburger cookies made with vanilla wafers as buns, chocolate mint cookies as patties, green-tinted coconut as lettuce, and sesame seed tops. A fun no-bake kids' treat.

Buttery shortbread triangles studded with toffee brickle chips that melt into caramel pockets. Elegant one-pan bars with four flavor variations.

Chocolate-marshmallow cake is a light cocoa sponge baked in a jelly roll pan and topped with billowy marshmallow frosting. An old-fashioned American layer cake with the feel of a campfire s'more.

Boozy chocolate Bailey's Irish Cream cheesecake with a chiffon-light filling set with gelatin and folded with meringue and whipped cream. A make-ahead, no-bake dessert that slices like a dream.

A lighter chocolate strawberry cheesecake made with nonfat cottage cheese, neufchatel, and cocoa on a graham cracker crust. All the creamy richness with a fraction of the guilt.

Midnight muncher bars with a marbled chocolate and vanilla base, caramel pecan frosting filling, and a glossy chocolate ganache topping. Three decadent layers in one rich bar cookie.

Classic white chocolate mousse builds an Italian meringue base with hot sugar syrup, then folds in melted white chocolate and rum-spiked egg yolks. A silky French restaurant dessert.

Praline ice cream cake bakes softened vanilla ice cream right into a graham-cracker crumb batter, then finishes with sour cream caramel topping and chopped pecans.