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Crème Anglaise

An easy Crème Anglaise recipe.

Classic Crème Brûlée

We prefer turbinado sugar, a slightly refined sugar, for the topping, because it melts easily and forms a crisp, easily shattered cover.

Author: Gourmet Test Kitchen

Classic Date Bars

Author: Susan Richardson

Sticky Date Pudding with Toffee Sauce

An easy Sticky Date Pudding recipe

Soft Vanilla Nougat

Use this recipe to make Milk Chocolate Cup-of-Fluffs . Nougat has a light, chewy consistency, a bright white color, and a charming ability to hold on to crunchy things like nuts or caramel pieces.

Author: Susie Norris

Cranberry Chess Pie

A popular Southern dessert said to originate in England, chess pie consists of staple ingredients: eggs, butter, and sugar, bound with cornmeal, flour, or both. While some recipes rely on tangy buttermilk...

Author: Sarah Jampel

Triple Chocolate Cookies

A quick and east recipe for Triple-Chocolate Cookies

Author: Tom Douglas

Halva 5 Ways

The best thing about this classic sesame-based confection (aside from the fact that it's so delicious) is how easy it is to make at home. The base recipe can be varied to your heart's content. Try our...

Author: Mindy Fox

Panna Cotta

Panna cotta, a molded chilled dessert popular throughout Italy, is easy to make and can be prepared in advance. It looks and tastes wonderful with ripe red fruits such as raspberries, strawberries, or...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Sheet Pan Ice Cream Sandwiches

An easy way to stock your freezer with homemade ice cream sandwiches: use baking sheets to make a giant ice cream-filled cookie that's easy to slice.

Author: Kendra Vaculin

Coffee Granita (Caffé Greco)

How to make a quick and easy summer dessert.

Pistachio Shortbread

Author: Melissa Clark

Meringues

This easy Meringues recipe is an accompaniment for Vanilla Mousse Meringues and Fresh Berries.

Author: Colin Cowie

Hot Fudge Sauce

This thick, glossy sauce makes chocolate syrup taste ho-hum. It's wonderful on the Frozen Chocolate Caramel Parfaits or poured over any flavor of ice cream to create a luscious hot fudge sundae.

Best Cocoa Brownies

Cocoa brownies have the softest center and chewiest candylike top "crust" of all because all of the fat in the recipe (except for a small amount of cocoa butter in the cocoa) is butter, and all of the...

Author: Alice Medrich

Classic Applesauce

Cooking the apples with their skins on adds a beautiful rosy blush to the finished sauce.

Author: Carla Lalli Music

Blueberry Lemon Cream Tarts

We make the shells for these tarts with packaged graham cracker crumbs to save time. If your brown sugar contains hard lumps, force it through a sieve before using. Otherwise, it won't dissolve in the...

Southern "One Cup" Peach Cobbler

In this cobbler recipe, the batter puffs up around the fruit, creating a cakey top and a gooey base.

Author: Joe Sevier

Cranberry Vanilla Coffeecake

Author: Melissa Roberts

Peach and Butter Pecan Ice Cream Icebox Cake

A few tweaks to the standard icebox cake formula make this ice cream cake stand out: jam, Ritz crackers, and a layer of butter pecan ice cream.

Author: Kendra Vaculin

Café Au Lait Puddings

Author: Ruth Cousineau

Scandinavian Rhubarb Pudding

Author: Nika Standen Hazelton

Upside Down Butterscotch Apple Sour Cream Cake

Baker's sugar, a favorite of pastry chefs, is also called superfine sugar. It measures the same as regular but dissolves more quickly. It's available at some supermarkets. You can also make your own by...

Author: Diane Rossen Worthington

Raspberry and Pistachio Ice Cream Icebox Cake

Nutty pistachio and tangy raspberry jam spread through whipped cream make for a lovely duo in this easy ice cream cake layered with Biscoff cookies.

Author: Kendra Vaculin

Creamy Vanilla Frosting

This recipe originally accompanied Red Velvet Cake with Creamy Vanilla Frosting .

Author: Allysa Torey

Whoopie Pies

We prefer Droste brand Dutch-process cocoa for this recipe because it gives the cakes a richer chocolate flavor. Though whoopie pies can be served on the same day they're made, we think the cakes are much...

Calas Fried Rice Fritters

Author: David Guas

Classic Whipped Cream

It's never a bad idea to serve pie with plenty of whipped cream. Think your pie is sweet enough? You can leave the sugar out-ain't nothin' wrong with plain ol' whipped cream. For a luxurious twist, try...

Author: Erin Jeanne McDowell

Italian Meringue (Magnificent Pie Meringue)

This very stable meringue is incredibly versatile - it makes magnificent billowy white peaks to brown as you wish. It is a large recipe - 6 egg whites - so that you have an abundance of this great meringue....

Author: Shirley O. Corriher

Classic Cream Cheese Frosting

This classic frosting couldn't be easier to make and is a must for finishing red velvet and carrot cakes (or a batch of cupcakes). Using vanilla bean paste gives it a pretty speckled look, but if you don't...

Author: Katherine Sacks