Dessert

All the Christmas desserts you possibly want, including custardy flan, salty-sweet halva, perfect banana cream pie, and so much more

Cream, fruit, golden-brown pastry…you’d be having that in the morning anyway, right?

You don’t need a ton of specialty ingredients to make great gluten-free cookies, just your favorite alt-flour and a few baking basics.

When cutout cookies just won’t cut it, turn to these fanciful tortes, lazy-day snacking cakes, and festive multi-layered showstoppers.

This deliciously moist sweet potato cake recipe from Baltimore’s Crust by Mack is stacked high with thick layers of salted cream cheese frosting.

With a puckery curd and buttery crust, these are the bars you’ll make again and again.

With less sugar and more salt than most other recipes, this buttery, toasted crumb crust is significantly nicer than anything store-bought.

This double-decker pie stacks two forever favorites—chocolate and coconut cream—in a homemade salted graham cracker crust for a best-of-all-worlds situation.

These New England–style gingerbread cookies get a hefty dose of molasses and just the right amount of warming spice.

Subtly sweet and a smidge savory, this cake is an ideal on-the-go breakfast or afternoon pick-me-up.

One bite is all it takes to fall in love with this extra-plush, cardamom-scented cake.

This tres leches cake recipe gets its tenderness from the addition of a fourth type of milk and a kick from a shot of rum.

All the gooey goodness that chocolate pecan pie lovers crave, but with a cocoa crust, bittersweet morsels baked right into the custard, and fluffy chocolate cream.

Become the relative who has to bring their famous Jell-O salad to every family gathering.

A classic for a reason. Our ultimate recipe has nut-studded toffee, just-ripe bananas, and heaps of whipped cream.

This boozy pie tastes like a Hallmark Christmas movie—you know, in the best way.

There’s always time for pie.

Reducing the liquid in this mile-high apple pie recipe to a syrupy consistency concentrates the flavor and yields the ideal juicy sauciness.

These simple sugar cookies are crisp yet tender, keep their shape when baked, and yes, taste great too. 

A showstopping peanut-studded banana cream pie with sky-high whipped cream.

This gooey molasses pie comes from long-standing Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bakery Wendy Jo’s Homemade.

This delightful, triple-layered pie with chunks of frozen cookie dough, chocolate ganache, and vanilla semifreddo makes for a showstopping dessert.

This easy recipe for sweet potato pecan pie uses a frozen deep-dish pie shell and a food processor to make the mashed sweet potato pie filling.

No booze, no chocolate, no hard-to-find ingredients in this rendition of the classic pecan pie.