Dessert & Sweet Treat Recipes

Chocolate Éclair Cake

This chocolate éclair cake has layers of graham crackers and whipped pudding topped with chocolate frosting for an elegant, show-stopping dessert.

⏱️ 735 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 24

Persimmon Pudding

This persimmon pudding is made with persimmon pulp, spices, eggs, sugar, flour, and butter and baked for a delectable cake-like dessert.

⏱️ 75 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

These chocolate cake mix cookies are quick and easy to make with just 4 ingredients for super fudgy, decadent treats studded with chocolate chips.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

Peach Berry Cobbler

This peach berry cobbler recipe combines the fresh taste of peaches with sweet blueberries for a warm dessert with a sugar-and-spice biscuit topping.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Pumpkin Fudge

This pumpkin fudge recipe made with white chocolate chips, marshmallow cream, canned pumpkin, and just enough spice is sure to please pumpkin-lovers.

⏱️ 120 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 16

Chef John's Boston Cream Pie

This Boston cream pie is quick and easy to make with cake mix, a silky homemade pastry cream, and glossy chocolate ganache for a beautiful dessert.

⏱️ 310 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Grilled Strawberry Shortcake with Sweet Cream

From Joy Wilson of Joy the Baker, this version of a summertime classic ups the ante by warming cream cheese pound cake over a hot grill alongside sugary sweet strawberries. With chilled sweet cream, this classic dessert is sublime.

⏱️ 315 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Easy Chocolate Mousse without Eggs

This decadent chocolate mousse without eggs was created to replicate a divine dessert served in a French cafe on a special honeymoon trip.

⏱️ 200 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 4

Fresh Strawberry Cookies

These strawberry cookies are easy to make with a traditional sugar cookie dough and fresh strawberry puree for a chewy, fruity, and delicious treat.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

Moist Vegan Sugar Cookies

Turn a few pantry staples into Christmas sugar cookies with the help of soy yogurt and this quick and easy recipe that's perfect for vegans.

⏱️ 22 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Magical Chocolate Bars

This magical chocolate bars recipe, transforms your pint of ice cream into ice cream bars using 3 simple ingredients with a homemade chocolate hard shell.

⏱️ 515 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 3

Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

The best recipe for chocolate chip cookies, much-loved and even award-winning with a secret ingredient — instant pudding mix. Always a favorite.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 72

Sour Cream Gooseberry Pie

This sour cream gooseberry pie recipe uses just a few ingredients and mainly relies on gooseberries for sweet-tart flavor. Use ready-to-bake pie crusts.

⏱️ 90 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Rhubarb Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

This rhubarb pineapple upside-down cake recipe combines gelatin and cake, featuring pineapple and marshmallows for a fun twist on the typical dessert.

⏱️ 80 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 15

Chocolate-Covered Matzo

Gooey chocolate covered matzo is the perfect Passover dessert and a great way to use leftover matzo. Get creative and try it with white chocolate too!

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 10

Old-Fashioned Apple Pie

This traditional apple pie recipe is made with two crusts and an apple filling generously flavored with cinnamon for a classic dessert.

⏱️ 70 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Pumpkin Shortbread Cookies

This spicy pumpkin shortbread cookie recipe is made with pumpkin purée, making them slightly softer than your average shortbread, but just as tasty.

⏱️ 100 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 60

Key Lime Pie

This key lime pie filling is made with sour cream and sweetened condensed milk and pairs perfectly with your favorite homemade graham cracker crust.

⏱️ 80 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Chocolate Sorbet

This creamy chocolate sorbet is enriched with cocoa powder and espresso for an intense flavor that will satisfy any chocolate lover.

⏱️ 215 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 4

Apricot Cheesecake

In this apricot cheesecake recipe, almond flour and sliced almonds form the base, and it's topped with a layer of sour cream and a dried apricot compote.

⏱️ 530 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 12

King Cake with Cream Cheese Filling

This recipe for king cake with cream cheese filling makes a tender, delicious cake. Give it a go and start a new Mardi Gras tradition at your house!

⏱️ 250 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 12

Easy Poke Cake

This easy poke cake recipe makes a moist, flavorful, and very tasty dessert with cake mix, pudding, and your favorite fruit flavored Jell-O.

⏱️ 90 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 14

Spicy Caramel Chicken

Chef John's updated spicy caramel chicken recipe features browned caramelized chicken chunks with hot and sweet peppers simmered in ginger-soy sauce.

⏱️ 45 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 4

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Deliciously moist pumpkin cupcakes topped with a creamy cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Easy to make and perfect for fall and holiday celebrations.

⏱️ 75 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 24