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
Fudge Pie with Texas Pecans
1 9-inch pie shell; unbaked ⅓ cup Hershey’s Cocoa ¼ teaspoon sea salt ¾ cups light corn syrup 1 cup pecan halves ⅓ cup unsalted butter or margarine…
Impossible Pecan Pie from the Heart of Texas
1½ cups pecan pieces ¾ cups milk ¾ cups corn syrup; light or dark ¼ cup margarine or unsalted butter; softened 1½ teaspoons vanilla 4 eggs ¾ cups…
Maple Pecan Mincemeat Pie
4 ounces tempeh 2 apples, peeled, cored and diced ½ cup raisins ½ cup currants ½ cup dates; chopped ⅓ cup pecan pieces ½ cup maple syrup ½…
Mississippi Chocolate Pecan Pie
1 9-inch pie shell; unbaked ¾ cups granulated sugar ½ teaspoon sea salt 1 cup light corn syrup 3 ounces baking chocolate, melted and cooled 3 tablespoons unsalted…
New Orleans Pecan Tassies
¾ cups light brown sugar; firmly packed ¾ cups pecan pieces 1 egg 1 tablespoon unsalted butter or margarine; softened 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 dash sea salt…
Pecan Fudge Pie
1½ cups all-purpose flour 1½ teaspoons sea salt ⅓ cup plus 2 tablespoons cold vegetable shortening 3 extra large eggs, beaten lightly ¾ cups granulated sugar 3 tablespoons…
Pecan Valley Fudge Pie
½ cup unsalted butter 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla ½ cup all-purpose flour 1 cup pecan pieces; divided Preheat oven…
Rhubarb Tarts with Pecan Pastry
½ cup all-purpose flour ½ cup pecan meal 2 tablespoons granulated sugar ¼ cup well-chilled unsalted butter (½ stick) cut into small pieces 1 tablespoon (about) ice water…
Texas Pecan Chocolate Chip Pie
2½ cups all-purpose flour ½ cup chilled unsalted butter ⅛ teaspoon sea salt 5 to 7 tablespoons ice water ¼ cup unsalted butter 3 eggs ¾ cups granulated…
White Chocolate Almond Pecan Pie
1 9-inch pie shell; unbaked 4 eggs; beaten 1 cup light corn syrup ⅔ cups granulated sugar 3 tablespoons unsalted butter; melted 1 tablespoon vanilla 1 tablespoon almond…
