Dessert/5 recipes

Holiday fruit cake bakes candied pineapple, red and green cherries, golden and dark raisins, pecans, and oats into a nutmeg-mace spiced loaf. Wraps and keeps for weeks.

Farfel pudding made with matzah farfel, eggs, apple or banana, and chopped nuts, baked until golden. A traditional Passover side dish or dessert that's simple and satisfying.

Cocoa thumbprint cookies rolled in sugar and filled with creamy peanut butter frosting. Loaded with chocolate chips and a sweet PB center. Makes 4 dozen irresistible little buttons.

Frozen angel pie with a nutty meringue shell filled with coffee and chocolate ice cream, drizzled with warm brown sugar caramel sauce. A retro showstopper.

Double-crust apple cranberry pie with crystallized ginger, lemon zest, and allspice. Decorated with pastry leaves and finished with demerara sugar for sparkle.

Foolproof chocolate peanut butter fudge melts semi-sweet chocolate chips with crunchy peanut butter and sweetened condensed milk into a no-thermometer, no-fail microwave fudge. Three ingredients, ready in an hour.

Three-layer chocolate cake filled with Swiss meringue buttercream, covered in whipped cream frosting, and decorated with chocolate rosettes and handmade chocolate squares. A true celebration cake.

These easy to make popcorn balls can be kept for a week, you can make them before Halloween comes, not only just kids love them!

Use your favorite cookie cutters to create these delicious and interesting shaped cookies!

Buttery bundt cake studded with poppy seeds and swirled with sweet filling, delivering bakery-quality texture without the fat thanks to buttermilk tang and fluffy egg whites.

Rich chocolate truffle cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust, served over a creamy raspberry sauce. Melted chocolate chips baked right into the filling for intense truffle flavor.

Layered chocolate mousse dessert with a buttery pecan crust, cream cheese layer, chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding with fresh strawberries, and whipped topping with chocolate shavings.

Thin, crispy maple cookies made with real maple syrup and maple extract, rolled and cut into shapes. Top with coconut, cream cheese, buttercream, or sandwich with jam.

Pear and apricot tart layers fanned pears and apricot halves over almond paste filling in a buttery almond pastry, then glazes with apple jelly. A bakery-worthy fruit tart for special occasions.

Sweet onion and ricotta cheesecake with cranberries and sage!

A no-bake chocolate coconut pie with a crunchy shell made from melted semisweet chocolate, rice cereal, and shredded coconut. The filling is a silky bittersweet chocolate mousse swirled with cream of coconut and whipped cream.