Mardi Gras is just around the corner, which means it's time for beignets! This is a classic New Orleans recipe, deep-fried then coated in powdered sugar, and served with raspberry jam.
Desserts and Sweets
Apple butter pound cake has delicious apple flavor with hints of cinnamon, a ripple of apple butter, and a creamy caramel glaze.
Conversation heart sugar cookies decorated with royal icing deliver your own personal message to your Valentine sweetheart!
This tutorial shows you how to use frosting to turn your cupcakes into rose cupcakes using buttercream frosting and a few piping tools.
Meyer lemon mousse topped with fresh berries combines the curd of tangy-sweet meyer lemons with whipped cream for a flavorful, light dessert.
Blondies are sweet bars similar to brownies, but without the cocoa. These blondies are loaded with white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts.
Beautiful swirled peppermint meringue cookies are a festive addition to your holiday party dessert tray! Bonus: they're naturally fat-free!
Salted caramel apple pie with a beautiful lattice crust is a delicious dessert any time of year. Make this pie ahead of time and freeze it before baking.
Rich white chocolate peppermint bark ice cream is a delicious holiday treat, with bits of the popular Christmas treat mixed throughout the ice cream.
Shortbread cookies are a Scottish Christmas tradition. This version of the crumbly cookie is flavored with dried cranberries and orange zest.
Warmly spiced gingerbread cookies get fancy for the holidays with a dip in white chocolate. Santa will love getting these cookies on Christmas Eve!
Salted Caramel Affogato Parfaits combine gelato, coffee and pound cake for a grown-up dessert with lots of different flavors and textures, perfect for any celebration.
Pumpkin cream pie has all the flavor of classic pumpkin pie with a slightly different texture. It's topped with decadent salted caramel whipped cream.
Cranberry crumb cake combines an orange-flavored cake, sugared cranberries and crumb topping for a delicious holiday breakfast or dessert.
Don't overcrowd your oven this Thanksgiving -- make a no-bake dessert! Here are 60 options for no-bake Thanksgiving desserts.
Butterfinger biscotti uses up some of your leftover Halloween candy in a tender, American-style chocolate biscotti cookie.
Boo! Scare your Halloween dinner or party guests with these easy-to-make white chocolate mummy truffles made with white chocolate ganache!
Pizza for dessert? You bet! Cheesecake Pizza has crescent dough as the crust, topped with sweetened cream cheese, berry compote and chocolate sauce.
Chocolate espresso cookies are rich and fudgy. Espresso powder enriches the flavor of the chocolate and adds coffee flavor, too.
Irish Coffee Chocolate Mousse is flavored with whole coffee beans, semisweet chocolate and Irish cream liqueur. It is light in texture but rich in flavor.
Scare up some fun with this spooky Halloween Spiderweb Cake. It involves basic piping techniques, so it's easy enough for beginner cake decorators!
Pumpkin churros are a fall twist on a sweet treat. Sweet pumpkin dough is deep fried, rolled in pumpkin-spiced sugar and dipped in decadent dulce de leche.
Pumpkin crepes are very thin dessert pancakes, folded over sweetened cream cheese filling and drizzled with dulce de leche.
Move over, classic pumpkin pie! Pumpkin brulee tart has a custard-like spiced pumpkin filling baked in a dark chocolate tart shell with a bruleed sugar topping.
I'm sharing Dorie Greenspan's Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Dulce de Leche filling for OXO's Bake a Difference campaign in support of Cookies for Kid's Cancer. Two soft, light pumpkin cookies studded with fresh cranberries are sandwiched with creamy dulce de leche marshmallow filling.
Sweet cream affogato is a simple yet decadent Italian dessert where espresso is poured over ice cream or gelato. Buon appetito!
Since most of the world's rum is produced in the islands of the Caribbean, the liquor is found in many dishes native to The Bahamas. One of those is rum cake, a buttery treat with a strong rum flavor.
Strawberry shortcake cupcakes are an easy dessert that kids and adults alike will enjoy. Bake the cupcakes and macerate the strawberries ahead of time, then top with whipped cream and strawberries just before serving.
Mango creamsicles have only three ingredients, and are so easy to make! They're my son's favorite treat on a hot summer day.
Grilled pound cake with peaches and mascarpone is a delicious summer dessert made right on the grill, the perfect ending to your cookout.
This peach pie ice cream is flavored with roasted peaches and has a swirl of graham cracker crumb crust, and no ice cream maker is required to make it!
Pina colada cupcakes are soaked in rum syrup, filled with pineapple, and frosted with coconut whipped cream. A delicious summer treat!
Boardwalk funnel cake takes me back to childhood vacations at a New Jersey beach. This warm deep-fried treat is dusted with powdered sugar and great for sharing!
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day is coming up on June 7. I've compiled 43 recipes, from strictly chocolate, to lots of mix-ins.
Strawberry lemon bars are a sweet twist on a tart classic bar cookie. These bars bring back memories of childhood summers drinking pink lemonade.
Vanilla-pear bread pudding baked in muffin tins are an easy, delicious, portion-controlled dessert. Serve warm with a drizzle of white chocolate sauce.
Cherry crumb bars are reminiscent of an American classic, cherry pie, but are less messy, so they're perfect for a potluck or picnic!
Finish off a tapas-style meal with mini dulce de leche cheesecakes — individual-sized creamy caramel-flavored cheesecakes with a cinnamon-crumb crust.
Key lime pie parfaits — all the flavor of the pie without the work! This no-bake layered dessert is quick and easy to make.
Butterscotch Krimpets are sponge cakes topped with butterscotch frosting. They originated in Philadelphia, and are a local institution! When people move away from Philadelphia, there are a few things they miss. Family, sure, but then there's the food. You just can't get a decent cheesesteak outside of the tri-state area (Southeast PA, South Jersey, and …