Dessert
3901 recipes found
Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
A fundamental part of any feast is abundance that is shared, and for Nigella Lawson, who brought this recipe to The Times in 2004, one way is to make up little packages of cookies and give them as gifts. These cranberry and white chocolate cookies are a favorite. They are easy to make and a wonderful end to a meal, or an after-school indulgence. Don't overbake them.
Apple Bread Pudding With Calvados Sauce
Ricotta Pudding
Dorie Greenspan’s Chocolate Pudding
This chocolate pudding, which is adapted from Dorie Greenspan, is everything you want in a creamy dessert: It’s light and airy, just sweet enough, not too sticky, and above all, it tastes of good-quality chocolate.
Coffee Walnut Layer Cake
This is a subtle cake: the coffee tempers the sweetness, and the buttery sweetness keeps it all mellow. Even if you don't make cakes, this one is a cinch. Don't be alarmed if the two sponge layers look thin when you unmold them. They are meant to be, because the cake gains a lot of height with its frosting. This cake is all about old-fashioned, homespun charm, so don't worry about how messy it looks: however the frosting goes on is fine. If you want to fully cover the sides of the cake, make a double batch of the frosting.
Butternut Squash Pie
This is a pie of exceptional delicacy. Unlike traditional pumpkin pie, no vegetal tones or stodgy finish mar the radiance of this pie, which stops just short of a custard and glows with the burnish of spice. The candied squash and ginger relish adds freshness and bite to an otherwise rich and creamy pie.
Dessert Vinaigrette For Figs
Vinaigrettes lend lightness and sparkle to food, but they generally land before the dessert course. But here, a warm orange vinaigrette livens up figs for a light and delicious dessert. This easy recipe, which was inspired by one from Michael Moorhouse, the pastry chef at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, comes together quickly.
Tamarind and Pomegranate Granitas
Chocolate Caramel Mousse
You can look at this as chocolate mousse stiffened by caramel or as a perfect caramel enriched by chocolate. Either way it is so rich, thick, gooey and creamy, so childish in a way, that it almost requires something completely sophisticated to offset it. Orange confit perhaps. Of course it can be eaten by itself, too.
Caramelized Peaches
Vanilla Crème Brûlée
Five simple ingredients – cream, vanilla, salt, eggs and sugar – make for an exquisitely rich and elegant dessert. Most crème brûlée recipes require the use of a small propane torch to achieve the crackly sugar top, but this version offers a simpler (and safer) solution: your oven's broiler. One thing to note: Be sure to let the custard set for several hours in the refrigerator before brûléeing the top, otherwise you'll end up with soupy custard.
Apple or Pear Crisp
I don't know why anyone would make a pie instead of a crisp. A crisp, most often made with apples but accommodating of almost any fruit, is better textured, better flavored and easier to make. If you choose to use pears instead of apples, be aware that unripe pears are unlikely to become tender in the time it takes the topping to brown. You must begin with pears that have started to soften, or their texture will remain unpleasantly firm.
Espresso Chocolate Cake
Hibiscus Gelée
Apricot Mousse
Sour Cream Cheesecake With Vanilla Bean
This elegant cheesecake is based on Amanda Hesser's mother's simple recipe. The crust is made of Nabisco chocolate wafers and butter. The bottom layer is a fluffy pool of cream cheese, eggs and sugar. The top is a thin layer of sour cream and sugar. Her recipe called for vanilla extract, but this one uses the seeds of one whole vanilla bean, which has a way of elevating all the other subtle flavors – cinnamon, chocolate and the tang of the sour cream and cream cheese – in a magical way.
Easy Apple Tart With Apricot Marmalade
Hana says: This tart is not kosher for Passover, so wait until after the holiday to make it. Gitta Friedenson, an old friend, passed along the recipe. Use a glass dish so you can check how brown the bottom gets. And don't serve it too hot, because it falls apart.
Sweet Potato Pie
This mildly-sweet version of the classic Southern pie has a crisp crust and a filling that's surprisingly light. It's rich with egg and boldly spiced with nutmeg, but as fluffy as chiffon (a quality owed to the baking powder in the filling). This means you'll probably have room for two (or three) pieces. (Don't let making your own pie crust intimidate you: our pie guide has everything you need to know.)
Simplest Sticky Toffee Pudding
Chocolate Baked Alaska
Baked alaska was once a restaurant show stopper. A layering of spongecake, ice cream and meringue, it was presented on a tray and flambeed at the table to heat the covering of meringue so you had both warm and cold sensations as you ate it. But some restaurants serve it in individual portions, relying on a blowtorch back in the kitchen to caramelize the meringue. When Amanda Hesser brought this recipe to The Times in 1998, the pastry chef Stacie Pierce of the Union Square Cafe used espresso caramel ice cream instead of vanilla or chocolate and served a big ball of it on top of a tender chocolate souffle cake, rather than the traditional spongecake. The warm and cold effect is the same, and the flavors, sharper and distinct, come across as more mature.
Lima Bee Ice Cream
Easy Apple Tarte Tatin
Chocolate Crumb Crust