Dessert
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Red Velvet Cookie Bars
These bar cookies have all of the flavors of your favorite red velvet cake, in a cute, compact form that is quick and easy to make. Their flavor and texture falls somewhere between a vanilla sugar cookie and chewy brownie. A generous layer of fluffy cream cheese frosting is a tangy and delicious cap to the bars, but feel free to reduce the frosting as you like. Enjoy these at room temperature or cold from the refrigerator. The food coloring in the recipe brightens their warm, chocolaty tone, but you can add extra for a more vibrant hue.
Chocolate Cheesecake With Raspberry Swirl
Raspberry and chocolate are a classic pair in this rich and decadent dessert fit for a celebration. Use a high-quality raspberry jam for the most vibrant flavor. Baking the cheesecake at a low temperature until it is just set around the edges prevents cracks without the need for a water bath. Make sure to give the cheesecake plenty of time to cool, first in the turned-off oven and then on the countertop, then chill before serving. It keeps beautifully in the refrigerator for a few days, so don’t hesitate to make it in advance.
Pear-Almond Cake
This simple cake comes together with little fuss: It’s just sliced pears baked in an easy almond flour batter, but in flavor and texture, it’s so much more. Feel free to make it early in the day, or even the day before serving. It keeps well. Use firm, slightly underripe pears if possible.
Chocolate Pound Cake With Strawberry Whipped Cream
This deeply chocolaty pound cake is simple to make but so much more than the sum of its very straightforward parts. Dutch cocoa lends its rich color and flavor to a cream cheese–infused pound cake batter. The cream cheese adds a tangy depth of flavor and gives the cake a soft, velvety texture. Make sure your butter, cream cheese, eggs and sour cream are at room temperature to ensure the cake batter emulsifies properly and bakes up tall and even. The cake is delicious on its own, dusted with a bit of powdered sugar and sliced into tidy slices, or with a dollop of perfectly pink strawberry whipped cream, which makes use of freeze-dried strawberries that are perfect year round.
Chocolate Pudding Cups
This grown-up chocolate pudding, which uses dark chocolate and a luxurious custard base rooted in European techniques, is served in small individual portions and nods to childhood indulgence. Perfect for a dinner party, you can prepare this the morning or day before your guests are to arrive, chill it and you’ll have a perfectly set dessert just waiting to be garnished and served. (Crème fraîche is a perfect accompaniment.)
Chocolate Raspberry Layer Cake
In this recipe, a rich and luxurious chocolate ganache enrobes an impressively tall chocolate cake with hidden layers of jammy raspberry filling punctuated by fresh berries. This cake is best served at room temperature so the chocolate coating is soft and easily sliced. If you like, you can also fill and frost the cake with chocolate buttercream instead of ganache; the buttercream is a bit easier to work with and less expensive to make. Fans of the combination of chocolate and raspberry may also want to consider this cheesecake.
Baked Lemon Pudding With Blueberry Jam
With a puffy, soufflé-like top covering a jiggly layer of pudding, this comforting dessert is balanced by the sharp tang of lemon juice and zest, while dollops of blueberry jam add sweetness and color. If you can time this to serve warm from the oven, you’ll be rewarded with the most ethereal texture, but it’s also excellent at room temperature, or even chilled, in which case it becomes denser and more curdlike.
One-Bowl Jam Doughnut Cake
Filled with fruity jam and dusted with cinnamon sugar, this easy Bundt cake resembles a giant jelly doughnut. Easily mixed in one bowl, it has a tender, cakey crumb that’s scented with nutmeg and vanilla, and its jammy core helps it stay moist for several days. Serve slices plain, with coffee or tea, or dolloped with whipped cream for a festive, simple-to-make dessert.
Chocolate Sesame Dumplings
Can you wrap just about any filling in dough and consider it a dumpling? These bite-size desserts prove you can. Lightly salted melted chocolate, creamy like a truffle, is stuffed into chewy homemade wrappers, naturally sweet from glutinous rice flour. Taking cues from black sesame treats often made for Lunar New Year, these sticky steamed dumplings include toasted sesame oil in both the filling and wrapper. Making dumplings from scratch is a fun group project and these are especially great for kids. The dough is the easiest possible kind to shape — it doesn’t require a rolling pin; it’s simply rolled into balls then pressed into flat rounds by hand.
Dubai Chocolate
This crunchy, creamy stuffed chocolate bar, created by Sarah Hamouda, has charmed sweet tooths worldwide. Inspired by her favorite childhood dessert, Mrs. Hamouda called her creation “Can’t Get Knafeh of It” and began selling it through her online store FIX Dessert in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As it went viral globally, it became known as “Dubai Chocolate” and inspired many to create their own versions at home. And it’s easy to understand why — the confection is a dreamy combination of pistachio cream and delicate shredded phyllo encased in a snappy shell of silky chocolate. This rendition joins the many homespun recipes from near and far, and includes an exceptionally rich homemade pistachio filling with the ideal balance of salty-sweetness, and an approachable technique to tempering chocolate that anyone can accomplish. (You’ll need silicone chocolate molds and a pastry brush to make this recipe; see the Tips for more details.) And while you understandably may want to keep all four bars to yourself, they do wrap up beautifully for an elegant and impressive gift.
Applesauce Coffee Cake
This warmly spiced, moist apple cake is the cozy breakfast, afternoon snack or dessert that dreams are made of. The top is covered with a generous layer of crumble that’s spiced with cinnamon or your favorite pumpkin spice blend and caramelized on the edges, which adds delicious toasty flavor and wonderful crunchy texture. The topping is at its most crisp the day that it is baked, but the cake stays soft and delicious for a few days when stored in an airtight container at room temperature. Brew a cup of tea or coffee, slice a piece of cake and enjoy these cozy flavors in any season.
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Tanghulu (Sugar-Glazed Skewered Fruit)
Long before tanghulu—skewered fruit glazed in sugar—became a TikTok darling, it was a snack eaten by Chinese royalty. Today, it’s a popular street food in China and Taiwan. Here’s how to make your own jeweled lollipops at home.
Easy Apple Tart
For an easy, satisfying fruit dessert, phyllo dough is just the thing. You don’t have to make the pastry for a very flaky result. Here, it’s topped with spiced sliced apples and painted with extra-virgin olive oil instead of the usual melted butter. Still, use butter if you prefer, and feel free to experiment with cigar shapes or phyllo turnovers.
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Making a Classic French Galette des Rois Is Easier Than You Think
Every January, French families gather to eat galette des rois—kings' cake—a crisp, flaky pastry filled with fragrant almond cream.
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Fried Oreos
With a puffy-yet-crunchy exterior and a nostalgic sweetness throughout, this homemade fried Oreo recipe will transport you to your favorite fair, tailgate, and/or childhood memory.
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Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies
A step-by-step guide to making spectacular chocolate chip meringue cookies that are crisp and airy.
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This Is the Pearfect Dessert I'm Bringing to All My Holiday Parties This Year
This French pear and almond tart is easy enough to whip up on a weeknight—and elegant enough for a festive holiday party.
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Perfect Crispy and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies for 1 in 20 Minutes
This recipe is for just two thick, gooey, chocolate chip cookies. No special equipment is needed, and they take just 20 minutes from start to finish to make.
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These Mini Southern Pies Will Be the Talk of Your Holiday Party
These little pecan pies triple-down on the pecan flavor in the crust, the filling, and as a topping. They're buttery, gooey, nutty, and ready for your holiday party.
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Earl Grey and Vanilla Poached Pears
My recipe for poached pears takes inspiration from the London fog, a beverage that consists of Earl Grey tea, vanilla syrup, and steamed milk. There’s no milk here, but there’s plenty of fragrant Earl Grey tea and a whole vanilla bean, which gives the poaching liquid a delicate floral flavor and subtle sweetness.
One-Bowl Lemon and Olive Oil Cake
This standalone lemon cake needs no adornment; no glaze or drizzle, no syrupy soak (just a light dusting of powdered sugar if you want it to be beauty contest-ready) – yet it practically oozes with glowing citrus flavor, thanks to the fruity olive oil, tangy yogurt and a dash of piney nutmeg that highlight the various facets of lemon’s character. White chocolate and almond flour add hints of the nutty richness and velvety crumb of an almond torte to what looks like a simple yellow cake. Always seek out organic lemons for zesting, as conventional lemons can be coated with a wax you shouldn’t eat.
Holiday Gingerbread Cake With Molasses Whipped Cream
This recipe for hot-water gingerbread — using an old but reliable technique for a moist, tender cake that starts with a base of molasses and boiled water — comes from the cookbook author and culinary historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris, who included it in “A Kwanzaa Keepsake and Cookbook” (Scribner), updated in 2024 after its first 1995 edition. Here, the dessert is part of a six-course menu celebrating Nia, or purpose, the fifth principle of the holiday, though Dr. Harris bakes the simple cake throughout the season. The gingerbread, as well as the barely sweetened cream you should dollop generously on top, are both simple to make, and rich with the smoky, complex flavor of molasses.
Cheese Danish Bread Pudding
A whimsical hybrid of two beloved breakfast pastries – the flaky, sweet cheese Danish and buttery croissants, this recipe is the perfect, elegant but also warming centerpiece for any brunch or dessert table. Butter croissants are chopped and soaked in a flavorful brown-sugar custard and topped with a lemon cream-cheese filling, then baked in a loaf pan for easy slicing, and finished with a drizzle of icing. To freeze ahead of time, slice the loaf and place in a freezer-safe bag, separating each slice with wax or parchment paper, and tuck into the freezer. When ready to serve, reheat in the microwave.
Gingerbread Icebox Cake
Gingerbread housing is challenging work, with the cookie baking, precise cutting and delicate building — and that’s before you even get to the most important part, the decorating. Icebox cakes are much easier to assemble and much tastier than a gingerbread house could ever be. This icebox cake is disguised as gingerbread with its spiced whipped cream and gingersnap cookie base. Simply dressed with crumbled cookies, this cake is a blast of a blank canvas for decorating (see Tip), especially with little ones. But don’t deny yourself this holiday treat if you aren’t into decorating; it’s also a showstopper of a dessert.