2,742 dessert recipes

Triple-ginger crumb crust made with gingersnap crumbs, crystallized ginger, and ground ginger. A spicy, fragrant pie shell that pairs with frozen or chilled fillings.

Marguerites cookies made with fluffy meringue piled on saltine crackers and topped with chopped nuts. A vintage sweet-and-salty treat browned in the oven.

Tofu pineapple cheesecake with a graham crust, sweetened naturally with honey and orange juice, topped with kiwi slices. A lower-calorie dairy-free cheesecake alternative.

Pretty pink jelly combining apple juice and fresh crushed strawberries with liquid pectin. Boils for just 1 minute. Seal with paraffin wax for shelf-stable preserves. Makes 3.5 cups.

Delicate French curled cookies (tuiles) made with butter, powdered sugar, egg whites, and vanilla. Paper-thin ovals baked until golden, then rolled around a wooden spoon handle.

Pineapple upside-down cake made in the slow cooker with pineapple rings, maraschino cherries, and brown sugar caramel base. No-oven retro dessert for warm-weather entertaining.

Cape Cod cranberry-blueberry crisp with maple syrup, oat-almond topping, and whole wheat flour. A naturally sweetened, butter-free fruit dessert bursting with tart berry flavor.

Norwegian almond bars with an almond paste filling spiced with cardamom and cinnamon between buttery crumb layers. A Scandinavian cookie bar with a unique potato flake filling.

This is a wonderful and light dessert to offer people as a contrast to the heavy holiday meals and desserts normally offered at this time.

Apple pie flipped upside down so the brown sugar and walnuts melt into a sticky praline-style topping over a flaky double crust. Inverted onto a platter for the reveal.

Pineapple butterscotch cake doctored from pound cake mix and instant butterscotch pudding, topped with crushed pineapple and butterscotch chips. The shortcut potluck cake that always disappears.

Kolatchkies, cream cheese pastry cookies filled with your choice of fruit filling, pinched shut, and dusted with powdered sugar. A classic Eastern European treat.

No-bake energy balls made with dried apricots, walnuts, coconut, and wheat germ, bound with orange juice and rolled in chopped nuts.

Cognac cookies, no-bake bourbon-ball cousins made with melted semisweet chocolate, crushed vanilla wafers, finely chopped pecans, and a generous splash of cognac. Roll in sugar and let them mellow.

This recipe is Sweet,healthy,and perfect for a summertime brunch.

Chewy banana oat bars with cinnamon and raisins, made with no butter, no oil, and egg whites only. A wholesome grab-and-go snack or breakfast bar that cuts into 24 squares.