569 glaze recipes

Fresh peach tart with a buttery cinnamon shortcrust and glossy apricot glaze. Hand-creamed dough baked blind, then filled with ripe peach slices for an elegant French-style dessert.

Traditional German lebkuchen cookies with honey, molasses, almonds, candied fruit, and five warm spices. Soft, chewy spice cookies brushed with lemon glaze for a classic Christmas treat.

Savannah ice cream cake stacks coconut cake layers with strawberry, chocolate, and orange ice creams, finished with whipped cream and chocolate glaze. A Southern showpiece dessert for special occasions.

A no-bake cream cheese pie set with sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice, piled high with fresh strawberries and glossy strawberry glaze. Ten minutes of work, then the fridge does the rest.

Summer pudding-style fruit cake lined with sponge cake and packed with kirsch-soaked strawberries, blackberries, cherries, and currants. Chilled overnight and unmolded.

In a Cretan zacharoplasteion (sweet shop), we were so intrigued by these coconut pastries (among the newer breed) that I tried them at home. You can expect the potato pastry to be a bit difficult to manipulate, and you can also anticipate compliments on the results. Attractive and tasty, not excessively sweet.

Classic Italian fruit tart with a lemon-scented shortcrust, silky crema pasticcera, seasonal fresh fruit, and an apricot glaze. A pasticceria showpiece you can make at home.

Mother's fruit cake is a brandy-soaked holiday classic with cherries, apricots, pineapple, peel, raisins, and currants bound in a spiced chocolate-scented batter. Baked slow and aged for two months.

Marchand de vin is a classic New Orleans red wine and demi-glace sauce with sauteed ham, mushrooms, and green onions. Rich, savory, and built for steak or eggs Benedict.

Medallions of beef tenderloin with garlic-tomato demi-glace and fresh tarragon. Restaurant-quality steakhouse dish for one, ready in 30 minutes.

Chestnut meringues with chopped marrons glaces folded through crisp, snowy French meringue, dusted with cocoa. A delicate, old-world European cookie for tea trays and holiday gift tins.

Sauteed veal scallops in a wild mushroom cream sauce with demi-glace, shallots, thyme, and a splash of white wine. Classic French bistro main dish with velvety pan sauce for special occasions.

Herb crusted beef filet with a red wine demi-glace and crispy sweet potato straws. Seared with thyme, oregano, and rosemary then oven roasted for a restaurant-quality dinner at home.

Roasted Rack of Lamb with Black Olive Sauce (Postrio's) recipe

French stuffed duck legs and sliced breast with blueberry gastrique sauce. Duck thighs filled with a veal, pork, and giblet forcemeat, served with seared aiguillettes.

Tropical lime poke cake from a lemon cake mix and lime jello, soaked with a tangy lime sugar glaze that seeps into fork-pierced holes for moist, citrusy bites all the way through.