Dessert recipe collection

Eggnog bread pudding baked in a water bath with cinnamon-raisin bread, brandy, nutmeg, and half-and-half, served with a cranberry-maple bourbon sauce. A festive holiday dessert.

One butter cookie dough, eight different cookies. Drop cookies, snowballs, butter fingers, cinnamon balls, chocolate mint creams, and more from a single batch.

Soft, buttery sugar cookies with a hint of lemon zest, made with both butter and oil for a tender crumb. Cream of tartar keeps them pillowy. A holiday cookie jar classic.

Southern sweet potato pie with evaporated milk, nutmeg, and lemon extract in a deep-dish crust. A silky, custard-style filling made from mashed sweet potatoes that yields two full pies from one batch.

Elegant lemon cake roll with a light sponge filled and frosted with creamy lemon filling, then coated in yellow-tinted coconut. A show-stopping spring dessert.

Turtle cheesecake with a chocolate wafer and walnut crust, studded with chocolate-caramel-pecan turtle candies. A rich Chicago-deli classic from the Eli's Cheesecake family.

Elizabeth David's Gateau Au Chocolat Et Aux Amandes recipe

Elvis Presley's pound cake with seven eggs, heavy cream, and cake flour started in a cold oven. A dense, buttery Southern pound cake with a velvety crumb and golden crust.

Elvis Presley's sweet potato pie sweetened with brown sugar and nutmeg, bound with evaporated milk and eggs, and built with a russet potato slipped into the mash for old-school Southern body.

Three-layer pumpkin bars built on a yellow cake mix base with spiced pumpkin custard center and a buttery cake-mix streusel top. Makes 24 bars in a 9x13 pan.

Emily's white cake is a tender, snow-white shortening-based layer cake from the early 1900s, leavened with stiff egg whites for fluff. The dairy-free vintage classic for birthdays and baptisms.

Empanadas de fruta filled with spiced dried fruit, raisins, pine nuts, and warm cinnamon-clove-nutmeg filling, deep-fried in a flaky homemade dough until golden and crispy.

Sweet potato and pineapple empanadas in a flaky cream cheese pastry with shredded coconut. Tropical dessert turnovers baked until golden brown.

Vintage spice cake layered with sweet stewed figs and crowned with vanilla frosting and toasted coconut. This retro two-layer beauty transforms humble ingredients into pure nostalgia.

English orange trifle layered with liqueur-soaked quick bread, vanilla pudding with orange zest, and marmalade, frosted with sweetened whipped cream. A make-ahead showstopper dessert.

English trifle with sherry-soaked angel food cake, raspberry jam, raspberry jello, and creamy vanilla pudding. A festive, make-ahead holiday dessert layered in a glass bowl.