1,449 light recipes

Old-fashioned date and nut candy rolled in a wet towel and sliced into rounds. Just five ingredients, no thermometer fuss, with a soft fudge-like chew.

Flaming bananas (bananas Foster) pan-fried in brown sugar and margarine, then flambeed with rum. A dramatic tableside dessert that's impressive to serve and simple to make.

Homemade Butterfingers candy with just 5 ingredients! Crispy peanut butter hard candy dipped in melted chocolate. A copycat classic that's easier than you think.

A low-fat pie crust that is perfect for making a variety of pies that make your Thanksgiving dinner.

Sour cream chocolate cake using a cake mix enriched with sour cream and brown sugar, topped with a broiled sour cream and brown sugar glaze. Extra moist and finished in minutes under the broiler.

No flag day or 4th of July celebration would be complete without a potato salad. This version is lighter and healthier that the tradition mayonaise only version but every bit as tasty. It's best made the day before. A great make-ahead classic side-dish so you can enjoy the day more.

Southern pecan pie with both dark and light corn syrup in a deep dish shell, baked low and slow for a gooey, caramelized filling loaded with whole pecans.

Texas-style pecan pie with a secret cornmeal addition for texture, both light and dark corn syrup for depth, and vanilla butternut extract. Gooey, crunchy, and piled with whipped cream.

Satisfy your hunger with this succulent and scrumptious dish you can easily make with some help from your slow cooker.

Baked pears with vanilla ice cream: firm pears poached in apple juice, lemon, and brown sugar syrup until tender, chilled overnight, and served cored-side up with a scoop of ice cream.

Devil's food bundt cake soaked twice in a light rum and corn syrup glaze for a deeply boozy, ultra-moist chocolate rum cake. Caribbean-French inspired.

Make glace fruit at home with this classic four-day method, slowly saturating apples, peaches, cherries, or citrus peel in sugar syrup until candied and leathery. The spent syrup becomes a fruit-flavored pancake syrup.

Whole bananas baked in their skins, then pan-fried in honey-allspice butter and flambeed with rum. A show-stopping Caribbean dessert with a squeeze of fresh lime to finish.

Microwave rum cake with devil's food layers soaked in rum, apricot preserves in the middle, and fluffy Italian-style meringue frosting. Retro dessert, updated speed.

Homemade hot fudge sauce with unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate, butter, corn syrup, and vanilla. A thick, glossy ice cream topping ready in 20 minutes.

The classic Southern Living sweet potato casserole: a creamy, custardy mash of sweet potatoes baked under a buttery brown-sugar pecan crumble. No marshmallows here, just a crunchy praline-style topping. A holiday must.