Dessert recipe collection

Oven-fried bananas ready in 10 minutes with just butter and bananas. Serve savory with salt and pepper as a side dish, or sweet with cinnamon and sugar as a quick low-fat dessert.

Oyster pudding layered with buttered saltine cracker crumbs, cream, and Worcestershire sauce, baked until crusty on top. A traditional 5-ingredient New England side dish.

Crunchy walnuts and hazelnuts get glossy maple syrup coating in this traditional Algonquin candy, studded with chewy prunes for a sweet-nutty treat that honors indigenous maple heritage.

Painted peach cake: cake-mix shortcut tube cake with cream cheese, sliced peaches, and red cinnamon candies baked right in. Pretty pink-flecked pound cake in under an hour.

Palm Beach pineapple squares: a chocolate walnut cake base topped with a lemon-scented pineapple layer, baked together into one tropical dessert bar.

Pan Nero, an Italian dark chocolate cake made with unsweetened chocolate, separated eggs, and potato starch flour. Dense, fudgy, and flour-light with just five ingredients.

Papaya custard sautees fresh papaya with butter, brown sugar, and brandy, then layers it under a rich egg custard with crumbled butter cookies. Baked until silky and set.

Papaya pie with warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin pie spice in a custard-style filling. A tropical twist on pumpkin pie with a similar sweet, spiced flavor.

Paper-thin lemon cookies sliced from refrigerated dough, loaded with fresh lemon zest and juice. A crisp, buttery slice-and-bake cookie that spreads into translucent wafers with caramelized edges.

Paris-Brest style cream puff pastry: piped pâte à choux rings baked with slivered almonds, split and filled with pastry cream, dusted with powdered sugar. A French patisserie classic at home.

Easy no-fuss cheesecake blended in a food processor with sour cream, cream cheese, and one egg, baked in a graham cracker crust. Topped with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

A delicious jelly made of parsley leaves, fruit pectin and lemon juice that tastes great with crackers.

Paskha: the traditional Russian Easter cheesecake, an unbaked pyramid of sweetened farmer's cheese studded with candied fruit, raisins, and almonds, served with a madeira-rum lemon sauce. Orthodox Easter in every bite.

Passion fruit mousse blends fresh passion fruit pulp with sweetened condensed milk, served chilled inside the emptied fruit shells with a cherry on top. Two-ingredient tropical dessert.

A kosher-for-Passover chocolate fudge torte: a flourless matzo-meal sponge layered with rich chocolate fudge frosting. Dairy-free and parve, rising on whipped egg whites instead of leavening.

This passover chocolate roll takes some efforts, but it's well worth it. It comes out smooth, creamy and full of chocolate flavor, everyone will look for a second piece!