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
Ooey Gooey Butter Cake
Ingredients Cake 1 package yellow cake mix 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), melted Filling 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature 2…

Old-Fashioned Flaky Pie Dough
This is the sort of recipe pastry chefs tend to favor, but it doesn’t require any fancy ingredients, equipment, or training. Just smash some cold butter in a…

Easy Pie Dough
The only pie dough recipe you’ll ever need. This makes enough for two single-crust pies or one double crust pie. For a slightly more tender crust, replace up…
RITZ Mock Apple Pie
e Ingredients Filling 2 cups water 2/3 cups sugar 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 35 Ritz crackers 1 ready-to-use refrigerated pie crust 1 1/2 Tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons cinnamon…

A Three-Tier Pie That’s Thanksgiving Dinner All-in-One
People do crazy things at Thanksgiving. Whether it’s deep frying a 25-pound bird or stuffing different birds inside one another to make one gigantic feast of a bird—this…
Cranberry Sauce Pie
This pie is great on it’s own, but it’s even better as part of the epic Three-Tier Thanksgiving Dinner Pie. Ingredients 3 1/2 cups cranberries 1 cup sugar…
Strawberry Dumplings
Crescent rolls filled with strawberries, baked in butter and brown sugar sauce, gets delightfully crisp tops while the bottoms stay soft and gooey. Ingredients 1 (8 ounce) can…

Salted Pretzel Nutella Fudge Milkshake with Malted Milk Whipped Cream
Ingredients Nutella Fudge (optional) 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 1 cup Nutella 8 ounces semi-sweet or dark chocolate, chopped 3 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon vanilla pretzel…


