Dessert recipe collection

A colorful overnight fruit salad marinated in brandy, brown sugar, and cinnamon with peaches, apples, oranges, strawberries, and kiwi. Gorgeous in a glass bowl for brunch or dessert.

Buffalo chip cookies are giant oat-and-cornflake cookies customized with raisins, peanuts, coconut, butterscotch, or chocolate chips. Yields 60 jumbo bake-sale cookies.

Lapsi is a traditional Indian bulgur wheat dessert cooked in milk with saffron, cardamom, fennel seeds, and golden raisins. Topped with slivered almonds for a warm, fragrant sweet.

A vintage two-layer cake flavored with homemade burnt sugar syrup, folded with whipped egg whites for a light, tender crumb. An old-fashioned Southern classic that deserves a comeback.

Gooey butter pecan bars layered with melted marshmallows, chocolate chips, and coconut on a cake mix crust. A 5-minute prep, no-fuss dessert bar that disappears at every potluck and bake sale.

Warm butter-rum sauce made with brown sugar, butter, and a splash of rum, poured over a fork-pricked pound cake so it soaks into every bite. Ready in 25 minutes.

Chewy brown sugar cookie sticks baked low and slow, cut into thin fingers, and rolled in powdered sugar. Toasted walnuts take these from good to great.

Homemade King Cake with a rich sour cream yeast dough rolled with cinnamon sugar and shaped into an oval ring. Decorated with purple, green, and gold frosting and colored sugars for Mardi Gras.

Buttery almond cutout cookies shaped like birds with sliced almond feather wings and a sparkly sugar glaze. A whimsical holiday baking project the whole family will love.

Buttery carob pound cake made with whole wheat flour and honey instead of refined sugar. Baked in a tube pan until dense, moist, and rich with warm, toasty carob flavor.

This carrot cake well satisfied my sweet tooth without making me feel guilty. Whole wheat flour and wheat germ provided the cake with some good fibre, by replacing half amount of oil with yogurt reduced the calorie and fat, and eliminating the frosting all-together made the cake much less rich and calorie-dense. But overall it was a very moist and delicious cake indeed.

Traditional Pakistani gajraila with grated carrots slow-simmered in milk with rice, cardamom, slivered almonds, pistachios, and raisins. A fragrant, creamy dessert served hot or cold.

Devil's food cake with creamy Neufchâtel cheesecake swirled through every slice, served with raspberry sauce. A stunning marbled chocolate cake from a box mix.

Five cups of fresh rhubarb layered with strawberry gelatin, sugar, marshmallows, and white cake mix, then baked until gooey and golden. This rhubarb dump cake is dead simple and absolutely addictive.

A cloud-light French-style cherry mousse made with pureed cherries folded into whipped cream and billowy egg whites. No gelatin needed for this elegant chilled dessert.

A cherry twist on classic tiramisu with espresso-soaked ladyfingers layered with whipped cream, chopped semi-sweet chocolate, and fresh Bing cherries. No baking required.