Dessert recipe collection

Traditional English Banbury cake made with yeasted dough, currants, and warm spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and mace. A rich, buttery spiced cake from Oxfordshire.

Change the look of biscotti with this tasty version that will satisfy anyone's sweet tooth.

Rio Grande-style biscocitos with butter, anise seed, and brandy, dusted in cinnamon sugar before baking. Crisp, fragrant, and easy to cut into festive shapes. Makes 3 dozen.

Crunchy twice-baked biscotti packed with roasted almonds and hazelnuts, scented with vanilla, anise, and almond extract. A big-batch Italian cookie that keeps for weeks and begs to be dunked.

Classic Italian anise biscotti with toasted almonds and anise seeds infused in Sambuca or Pernod. Twice-baked until crisp and dry, built for dunking into espresso or Vin Santo.

Yeasted anise biscotti from Genoa, made with a sponge starter for a lighter, bread-like crumb. Twice-baked with butter and aniseed, these are nothing like ordinary biscotti.

Four-layer spiced chocolate torte filled with apricot jam and frosted with a cocoa-espresso ricotta cream. Warm cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg give this butterless cake a complex, grown-up flavor.

Classic New York black and white cookies with soft, cakey rounds frosted half in vanilla fondant and half in chocolate. Bakery-style cookies made with cake flour for that signature pillowy texture.

Thick, peppery cream gravy made from a butter or bacon fat roux, milk, and freshly cracked black pepper. Ready in 20 minutes and just right for smothering biscuits, fried chicken, or country-fried steak.

No-bake mango cheesecake whipped up in a blender with coconut graham crust, tangy sour cream, and lush mango pulp. A tropical dessert that sets in the fridge, no oven required!

Blue ribbon cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, rich orange-scented cream cheese filling, and a final flourish of fresh orange zest. A short-bake cheesecake with the texture of mousse.

Layers of cinnamon-kissed apples baked between swirls of orange-scented batter in a tube pan, then dusted with powdered sugar. This from-scratch apple cake is a showstopper that's surprisingly simple to pull off.

A lighter blueberry pear cobbler with a fluffy drop-biscuit topping. Made with pears packed in juice and skim milk, this fruit-forward dessert keeps things simple and satisfying.

For those who love the donut, this decadent cake will have you hooked after every bite!

Bourbon banana chiffon cake with mashed banana folded into a fluffy egg-white batter and finished with a bourbon-milk glaze. Garnished with fresh strawberries and banana for a Southern dessert showpiece.

A vintage cream pie with boysenberry syrup filling in a vanilla wafer crust, crowned with toasted meringue. Old-fashioned, fruity, and surprisingly quick to make.