10,005 dessert recipes

Quick to make and too delicious for your own good!

Easy chocolate sheet cake is a Texas-style one-bowl 9x13 cake with buttermilk, cocoa, and a hint of cinnamon. No mixer needed, ready in 40 minutes. Moist, rich, bake sale-ready.

Pumpkin pecan pie layers a spiced pumpkin custard under a classic pecan pie filling for two desserts in one slice. Looks like pecan, eats like Thanksgiving, balanced sweetness throughout.

White chocolate orange dream cookies are buttery drop cookies studded with white chips and brightened with fresh orange zest. Makes 2 dozen creamsicle-flavored cookies.

Spicy apple crisp layers cinnamon-scented sliced apples under a buttery oat-and-brown-sugar streusel topping that bakes crunchy and golden. Fall comfort dessert served warm with vanilla ice cream or cold cream.

Buttermilk orange cake studded with raisins and nuts, topped with a citrus-sugar glaze broiled into a caramelized, crackly crust. Served warm with whipped cream for an old-fashioned dessert.

Orange madeleines with fresh orange zest and juice folded into a classic French sponge batter. Light, shell-shaped cakes dusted with powdered sugar while still warm.

Three-layer walnut carrot cake with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves frosted with buttercream. A spiced, oil-based cake with a moist crumb and crunchy walnut-lined pans.

Luscious lemon pie folds tangy sour cream into a stovetop lemon custard for a creamier, less puckery filling than classic meringue pies. Topped with whipped cream in a baked shell.

Crispy oatmeal cookies that spread thin with lacy, caramelized edges that shatter when you bite. A high butter-to-flour ratio and quick oats deliver crunch, not chew. Optional nuts and raisins.

Crispy fried lemon rosette cookies made on a traditional rosette iron, dusted with powdered sugar. Lacy, paper-thin Scandinavian-style cookies that shatter under the first bite. A holiday classic.

Classic ginger snap cookies with molasses, cinnamon, and cloves. Crispy edges with signature crinkled tops. Big batch recipe makes about 10 dozen small cookies.

Fancy spritz cookies are tender, buttery pressed cookies enriched with ground almonds and almond extract for a marzipan-like flavor. Shape them with a cookie press into pretty holiday wreaths and stars.

Mom's pineapple nut loaf with crushed pineapple, golden raisins, and chopped nuts in a simple quick bread batter. A moist, fruity loaf where the pineapple juice activates the baking soda for a tender crumb.

Cream cheese snowflake cookies with lemon zest, topped with powdered sugar icing and edible glitter. Delicate, buttery Christmas cutout cookies that sparkle.

Chocolate pound cake baked in a tube pan with melted unsweetened chocolate and cream of tartar for a tender, tight crumb. A one-bowl, old-fashioned pound cake dressed up in cocoa.