Desserts
Dessert can be a slice of pie, a spoonful of custard, a crisp cookie, or a small confection. Cakes, fruit desserts, pastries, frozen preparations, and sauces give this collection its range of textures and serving styles. Browse by the kind of finish you want for the meal, then choose a recipe with the flavors and preparation you have in mind.
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Brownies & Bars
Brownies and bars gather a dessert into a bake that can be cut into portions. Pumpkin latte bars, blueberry squares, and coconut-cherry preparations offer different layers, fillings, and textures.
Cakes
Cinnamon roll cake, hot fudge cake, and other bakes bring different crumb textures and finishes to this collection. Browse cakes for slicing, layering, or serving warm with a suitable accompaniment.
Candy
Peanut brittle, chocolate truffles, and other candies turn sugar, chocolate, or nuts into small portions. Browse confections with different textures, from crisp pieces to a softer sweet center.
Cheesecakes
Cheesecake can be served as a whole cake, a square, or part of another dessert. Bacon-bourbon caramel and salted caramel variations show different flavors within a creamy cheese-based preparation.
Chocolate
Chocolate gives hot fudge sauce, cakes, and other desserts a common flavor while allowing very different textures. Browse this collection for a chocolate-focused component or a finished sweet dish.
Cobblers, Crisps & Crumbles
Fruit, crumbs, and batter combine in different ways in cobblers, crisps, and crumbles. Apple crisp and cream cheese cobblers offer contrasting approaches to a dessert served in spooned or cut portions.
Cookies
Lemon oatmeal cookies, biscotti, and savory pimiento cheese cookies show the variety of this collection. Browse for a cookie’s texture and flavor, whether you want a small sweet bake or a savory bite.
Dessert Pastries
Apple fritters, cream puffs, and other dessert pastries bring dough and fillings together in different forms. Browse pastries for a crisp shell, a tender center, or a layered sweet serving.
Frozen Desserts
Frozen desserts bring temperature into the texture of a sweet serving. Affogato, frozen yogurt, ice cream, and other preparations offer different bases and flavors for a chilled finish to the meal.
Fruit Desserts
Fruit gives these desserts their flavor, moisture, or contrasting texture. Blueberry squares, cherry cream squares, and apple crisp offer different ways to bring fruit into a sweet serving.
Mousses, Possets & No-Bake Desserts
Mousses, possets, and chilled desserts offer soft textures without relying on a baked cake structure. Lemon posset and chocolate mousse provide contrasting starting points for a spooned dessert.
Parfaits, Trifles & Layered Desserts
A trifle or layered dessert combines several textures in one serving. Chocolate-peach trifle, coffee carlota, and pecan pie layers offer different arrangements of cream, fruit, and other components.
Pies & Tarts
Apple squares, peach cream pie, and orange cream pie offer different fillings within the pie and tart collection. Pastry and crumb bases provide structure while fruit, cream, or other ingredients shape the finished slice.
Puddings & Custards
Lemon posset, rice pudding, and bread pudding bring different ingredients into a soft dessert. These puddings and custards invite attention to the texture of a serving eaten with a spoon.
In this collection

Grandbaby Cakes’ Strawberry Cupcakes
Forget the strawberry cake made with cake mix! These homemade completely scratch strawberry cupcakes are a classic done right and delicious! Ingredients For the Cupcakes: 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar…
Grandbaby Cakes’ American Buttercream Frosting
This American Buttercream Frosting Recipe is fluffy, airy and light, sweet and whipped to serious perfection! You can use it on any cake, cookie or cupcake recipe because…
Grandbaby Cakes’ Vanilla Cupcakes
The texture of these cupcakes was incredible. They were impossibly moist and dense in the most enjoyable way. They had the texture of pound cake but were still somehow…

Cupcake Project’s Best Vanilla Cupcakes
All of the taste-testers agreed these were, hands-down, the very best cupcakes of the bunch. Mixing the softened butter directly into the dry ingredients (a technique called the reverse creaming…

Cupcake Project’s Best Chocolate Cupcakes
These are, hands-down, the best chocolate cupcakes I’ve ever made. Biting into one of them was a dream: They’re airy, moist, and have more chocolate flavor than any…
Dark Chocolate Cupcakes
These dark chocolate cupcakes are so moist and fudgy, and the dark chocolate ganache frosting is unbelievably rich and creamy, it’s like eating a chocolate cloud! Ingredients 2…

How to Make Royal Icing with Meringue Powder
Using only three ingredients, this royal icing recipe is great for decorating cookies, gingerbread houses and piping flowers. It dries hard, with a shiny smear-proof finish, and is…

Royal Icing and Natural Food Colorings
I use this recipe to frost sugar cookies for the holidays. I’ve included a bunch of natural food coloring variations at the bottom to make colors. — Erin…

White Wedding Cupcakes
Easy white wedding cupcakes recipe from scratch with white buttercream frosting. These soft and moist white cupcakes are decorated to look like buttercream flowers, using decorating tips. Ingredients…

Chocolate Ermine Buttercream
I used to call this “pudding buttercream” before I knew it’s true name: ermine. This technique involves preparing a simple pudding-style custard base, then whipping butter into it…
