Dessert & Sweet Treat Recipes

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

This pumpkin chocolate chip cookies recipe creates a cake-like cookies that include chocolate, nuts, and warm spices for the perfect fall treat.

⏱️ 20 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake

This easy, light, and fluffy no-bake cheesecake has a delightful strawberry surprise!

⏱️ 240 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 10

Pumpkin Custard Pie

This delicious pumpkin custard pie pairs a hot custard filling with a cold, unbaked pie crust, resulting in a perfectly textured dessert everyone will love!

⏱️ 50 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Perfect Thumbprint Cookies

These thumbprint cookies are similar to those made by Chef John's mom and can be made two different ways for melt-in-your-mouth, jam-filled shortbread.

⏱️ 50 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 20

Moist Peach Coffee Cake

This peach coffee cake, with chunks of fresh peach and a buttery crumb topping, is the perfect sweet treat to make if you have a surplus of peaches.

⏱️ 75 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 16

Santa Sugar Cookies

These Santa Claus cookies are decorated with red and white icing to create a face and bright red hat. A fun whipped beard is added just before serving.

⏱️ 160 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 20

Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake Pie

This fresh strawberry cheesecake pie recipe features a creamy baked cheesecake filling topped with juicy sliced strawberries suspended in a sweet glaze.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Orange Juice Cake

This moist orange juice cake is a citrusy twist on rum cake, made with yellow cake mix, pudding, and a buttery orange glaze.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Custard Ice Cream Base

This ice cream base makes a classic custard ice cream with egg yolks, heavy cream, and sugar for the richest, smoothest, creamiest homemade ice cream.

⏱️ 645 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Banana Bread Cookies

These soft and chewy banana bread cookies are drizzled with a sweet glaze. They taste just like homemade banana bread!

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 36

Rhubarb and Strawberry Dump Cake

This rhubarb strawberry dump cake is easy to make with fresh strawberries, rhubarb, and cake mix for a tasty springtime dessert ready in under an hour.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Irish Potato Candy

This Irish potato candy recipe doesn't contain potatoes; these sweet treats are made with cream cheese and coconut and molded to look like potatoes.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 60

Frozen Vanilla Custard

This frozen custard recipe from Chef John's is a deliciously rich and creamy French-style vanilla ice cream; serve soft in cones or freeze and scoop into cups.

⏱️ 490 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Banana Pudding Cupcakes

Moist vanilla cupcakes are filled with homemade banana-vanilla pudding and topped with whipped cream and crushed wafers in this sweet treat recipe.

⏱️ 85 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

Cookie Butter Cheesecake

Cookie butter and speculoos cookies are used to make this spectacular cheesecake that will surely impress your guests.

⏱️ 385 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 12

Chocolate-Covered Oreo® Snowman Cookies

Make this cookie recipe a baking project for the kids! They'll love to help make and decorate these adorable snowman cookies, made with Oreo's®, candy melts, and M&Ms.

⏱️ 75 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 45

Instant Pot Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake

This decadent chocolate cherry cheesecake is made in the Instant Pot and is extra creamy thanks to Greek yogurt.

⏱️ 580 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Fluffy Sourdough Pancakes

This fluffy sourdough pancake recipe, leavened with sourdough starter, baking powder, and baking soda, cooks on a griddle until fluffy and golden brown.

⏱️ 20 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 6

Mint Devil's Food Cupcakes

These moist Devil's Food Cupcakes topped with mint-flavored whipped cream and crushed chocolate cookies would be a hit at a holiday party.

⏱️ 125 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 12

Persimmon Upside-Down Cake

This persimmon upside-down cake recipe uses persimmon pulp and pecans in the base, and sliced fresh persimmons on top to make this gorgeous dessert.

⏱️ 70 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

This vanilla bean ice cream, made with heavy cream, milk, and egg yolks, is flavored with a whole vanilla bean for a rich and creamy frozen dessert.

⏱️ 75 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 16

Soft Sugar Cookies V

These cookies, which contain sour cream, are the softest sugar cookies ever! I find that if I roll them a little thick and do not overbake, they are best and stay moist. Use whatever cookie cutters that suit the occasion!

⏱️ 535 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 48

Zucchini Brownies

These zucchini brownies are rich, fudgy, and delicious. They're topped with an easy to make chocolate frosting for an irresistible sweet treat!

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

French Silk Chocolate Pie

This French silk pie has a silky smooth chocolate mousse filling; top each slice with whipped cream and chocolate shavings for a decadent dessert.

⏱️ 140 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8