10,005 dessert recipes

Cream cheese rugelach with a tender, flaky pastry rolled around fruit jam. The classic Eastern European Jewish cookie, bakery-style at home with eight ingredients and zero kneading.

Heart-shaped chocolate Valentine cake with glossy sour cream chocolate frosting and a piped buttercream border. Romantic dessert with deep cocoa flavor.

Old fashioned apple pie with a from-scratch butter crust made flaky with apple cider vinegar. Granny Smith apples get tossed in reduced cider, cinnamon, and nutmeg for deep, concentrated apple flavor.

Rich cream cheese tube cake with butter, cream cheese, cake flour, and a hint of rum and lemon zest. A dense, velvety pound cake dusted with powdered sugar.

Fudgy homemade brownies made in one saucepan with cocoa powder, no melting chocolate required. A quick, moist, deeply chocolatey bake with optional walnuts for crunch.

Pecan shortbread cookies shaped into little ovals and rolled in powdered sugar. Only 4 ingredients, no eggs, mixed by hand, and they melt in your mouth. A Mexican wedding cookie cousin that makes 4 dozen.

Kentucky Apple Festival Pie with Shortening Crust recipe

Loaded chocolate pecan pie with homemade butter pastry, toasted pecan halves, semi-sweet chips, and unsweetened chocolate in a gooey dark corn syrup filling. A Thanksgiving showstopper.

Currant wheels are buttery pastry spirals filled with currants, sultanas, and chopped almonds, then topped with a simple sugar glaze while still hot. A European bakery classic in under an hour.

Quick peanut butter cookies from a yellow cake mix, peanut butter, egg, and water. Four ingredients, no mixer needed, with that classic fork-pressed crosshatch pattern.

Rhubarb bread pudding layered with buttered bread cubes, fresh rhubarb, cinnamon sugar, and butter. Just 5 ingredients for a tart, crispy-topped spring dessert.

Orange pecan crisps made with crescent roll dough, brown sugar, cinnamon, and orange zest. Flaky, caramelized, and ready in 30 minutes flat.

Smørkranser are traditional Norwegian butter wreath cookies made with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, egg yolk and flour. Shaped into tiny wreaths, brushed with egg white and topped with colored sugar.

An elegant French strawberry chibouste-style dessert: pastry cream lightened with Italian meringue, set with gelatin, molded against fresh strawberries over a thin genoise base. A patisserie classic at home.

Buttery Italian-style shortbread cookies made with powdered sugar, vanilla, and three-quarters of a pound of real butter. Chill the dough, roll it out, cut your favorite shapes, and bake until golden.

Super easy way to make a delicious carrot cake. Frost it with a butter-cream cheese frosting to add extra layer of deliciousness. If not, the cake is yummy enough on its own.