Desserts Recipes

This recipe uses Kraft caramels to make yummy oat bars filled with a gooey layer of chocolate and nuts.

This flan recipe is a cross between egg custard and cheesecake — rich and delicious.

Microwave caramel popcorn is delicious and so easy to make at home with this recipe. Store in an airtight container.

This caramel cake includes a delicious homemade caramel frosting that's easy to make with butter, brown sugar, and evaporated milk. Everyone loves this layer cake!

This caramel recipe has been used for almost 41 years; I have yet to have any bad batches. My grandson loves them!

Incredibly delicious caramel apples! The caramel coating is very gooey, so refrigerate the apples for about 15 minutes, or until the caramel has firmed up.

This amazing caramel apple recipe was given to me by a close friend when I was searching for a recipe to make homemade caramel apples for the very first time. My family and friends loved these delicious treats! Sprinkle with nuts, crushed cookies, or whatever you desire while the caramel is still warm, but work quickly as the caramel sets very fast.

Great caramel popcorn for any holiday or occasion. If you like chewy popcorn, bake the coated corn a little less.

Classic Girl Scout Samoa cookies (Caramel-deLites) in bar shape but with all the flavor of the original.

Banoffee pie has gooey toffee, banana, and crunchy graham crackers in every bite. It's an incredibly rich and delicious dessert, so a little goes a long way, but anyone who tries it loves it!

Bananas in caramel make a delicious, fast dessert served hot over ice cream, brownies, or crêpes. Yum!

These caramel apple slices combine the crisp, natural flavor of apple with caramel and pecans for the perfect balance of sweet and savory. The pomegranate seeds add an extra burst of flavor.

This dulce de leche ice cream, with ripples of lightened dulce de leche in every scoop, is very creamy and rich, with just the perfect hint of salt.

Apple pie tiramisu has all the flavor of your favorite apple pie piled into a creamy, layered treat. Ladyfingers are soaked in apple cider instead of espresso. Toasted pecans add a nice buttery crunch to each bite.

This caramel apple cheesecake salad is sweet and creamy with added freshness from fresh apple pieces.

They're a two-ingredient sensation from the 1970s—and they're ready in minutes.

This easy salted caramel apple pull apart bread begins with refrigerated biscuits. Split biscuits are layered with apple butter, baked until golden in a loaf pan, and drizzled with caramel.

"Like a cookie meshed with a candy bar in the most decadent way."

This delicious poke cake with Irish cream and salted caramel is made with cake mix for ease, but you can also make it from scratch.

For this bananas Foster crispy rice, caramelized bananas, ice cream, toasted pecans, and a rum caramel sauce sit atop a sweet-salty disc of butter-fried crisp sushi rice.

This no-bake millionaire's shortbread has a buttery, tender base followed by a layer of homemade melt-in-your mouth caramel and topped with dark chocolate. Sprinkle with sea salt to cut the sweetness if you like.

These no bake banoffee cheesecake bars are incredibly tasty - imagine a Graham cracker crust with layers of homemade caramel sauce, cream cheese filling, and fresh banana slices. Serve topped with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

These millionaire bars are no-bake chocolate squares featuring crispy cereal, with a salty edge from roasted peanuts, but you could swap in another nut if you prefer.

These caramel apple cinnamon rolls are fluffy cinnamon rolls amped up with a sweet apple and caramel filling. Serve them with a drizzle of warmed caramel sauce.

You can use any topping you like for these caramel-apple grapes. Chopped peanuts or any other nuts work great as well as sprinkles, M&Ms, chocolate bits.

Apple butter is basically a spreadable apple pie filling, only better! Any classic cooking apple should work in this recipe. Though the cooking time is long, it's super easy and pretty hands-free. Pair this apple butter with some sharp Cheddar on a cheese plate, or slather it onto cheesy biscuits.

This royal icing with cream of tartar is easy to make and perfect for decorating gingerbread houses.

Light and fluffy angel food cake frosting. It has all the taste of a boiled frosting with very little effort! Sometimes I like to change it up a bit and use maple or peppermint extract instead of vanilla.

Try this buttercream frosting made with granulated sugar instead of powdered sugar. It's the best for chocolate cakes and cupcakes. This recipe makes enough to frost the top of a 9x13-inch cake.

This microwave lemon curd recipe is quick and easy to make. It's particularly useful when you're going to be entertaining but you're short on time. Store for up to three weeks in the refrigerator.

This whipped cream recipe is about the most amazing thing you will ever taste!

The cream-filled donuts in my cake shop are filled with this white cream filling. It's the filling used in smear face and cream horn pastries. I have looked forever for the Holland cream recipe for donuts but never had luck finding it, so I created my own.

This coconut and pecan frosting is great on many cakes, not the least of which is German chocolate cake.

This Bavarian cream is from my great-grandmother's recipe book.

A nice, basic meringue recipe. Egg whites beaten with cream of tartar, then sugar until those famous stiff peaks form — golly, that's good meringue! Use it to make meringue cookies, or top dessert pies.

This is an easy dairy-free frosting recipe I have tweaked to my liking after a few tries. It is very tasty and is pretty easy to make.

This buttercream icing is an easy-to-make egg-free frosting that's great for decorating cookies for holidays, birthdays, and parties. Use paste to color the icing. If you use liquid color, you may need to add more confectioner's sugar.

This cream cheese filling can be used in sweet breads, kolachkes, and braids or even dropped in the center of chocolate cupcakes. It tastes like cheesecake, and everyone loves it. It's yummy but loaded with calories.

This chocolate frosting with cocoa powder has great texture, color, and taste. Smooth and easy to spread, this frosting turns any cake, cookie, or cupcake into something deliciously special.

Anko is a sweet red bean paste that's used to hold together pastries, cakes, and other desserts that come from Japan. Store cooled anko in a covered container in the refrigerator.

This easy orange glaze recipe is made with orange zest and freshly squeezed orange juice, not the stuff out of a container. It's fresh and delicious and adds a nice citrus kick to angel food cake or any type of loaf cake.

I received this royal icing recipe with corn syrup from a professional baker. I prefer to use this instead of a regular royal icing recipe with egg whites. It hardens nicely and is glossy rather than matte, like regular royal icing.

This creamy mascarpone frosting is incredibly versatile and can be used to decorate various desserts.

A light cool whip frosting vaguely resembling Bavarian cream.

This cookie glaze dries quickly to a hard, shiny finish. Perfect as a base coat for cookies. It can be colored to suit any occasion; use as much food coloring as needed to create the desired hue. Stir glaze each time you use it to prevent it from drying with a mottled look instead of a solid color.

This chocolate frosting recipe is easy to make for creamy homemade chocolate frosting every time! Using melted butter helps to bloom the cocoa powder, creating a more flavorful chocolate frosting.

This lime curd recipe is a twist on lemon curd. When life gives you a bunch of limes, make lime curd! Use it as a cake filling, or any other way you desire.

This no-cook frangipane recipe uses only butter, sugar, eggs, and almonds. If you don't use the frangipane right away, you can refrigerate it for a few hours but make sure to use it the same day.

This chocolate glaze for Bundt cake is simple to make with only three ingredients, and it has a variety of uses. It's great to use over a Bundt cake because it sets up nicely. The extra sauce may be refrigerated and reheated to serve over ice cream or your favorite dessert. I came up with this once when I didn't have any confectioner's sugar to make a glaze.

Here's a terrific recipe for buttercream icing for cookies with no raw egg whites. For any recipes that require egg whites, you can substitute dried, powdered egg whites, usually found at cake-decorating supply stores. Then you can still lick the bowl!

This fluffy, egg-white frosting is made by combining whipped egg whites with hot sugar syrup until meringue-like. Works well on almost any type of cake.

This cream cheese frosting with brown sugar and honey is a nice alternative to the classic recipe. We use it to frost cocktail cake. Try it on applesauce, spice, banana, or carrot cakes.

This royal icing recipe is a sweet white icing made with two main ingredients: pasteurized egg whites and confectioners' sugar. The icing dries quickly, making it perfect for decorating gingerbread houses and holiday cut-out cookies.

Mincemeat is a delicious English Christmas treat that's used as filling for festive mince pies. This authentic recipe uses butter instead of the classic suet, which makes this mincemeat suitable for vegetarians.

This strawberry frosting has an intense strawberry taste without using extract or gelatin. I wanted real strawberry frosting for my real strawberry cupcakes and could not find an acceptable recipe. I came up with this recipe using a strawberry purée reduction that is truly the strawberry-est. If you love strawberries, you'll love this!

This cherry pie filling recipe is easy to make with just three ingredients for a delicious homemade pie filling! You can use fresh or frozen tart cherries.

This lemon cream cheese frosting is made with lemon juice and lemon zest. It has a delicious bright and tangy flavor and is so creamy. It's great on cupcakes, carrot cake, and cinnamon rolls.

This is the best cream cheese frosting recipe. It's deliciously smooth, creamy, and very versatile — perfect for topping carrot cake, chocolate cupcakes, or sandwiched between red velvet cookies.

A quick and simple strawberry pie filling recipe to turn freshly picked strawberries into a decadent filling. Use to make pies, top cheesecakes, or just simply serve over ice cream.

This whipped cream frosting is yummy and very stable. It does not melt at room temperature like many standard whipped cream frostings. This recipe is great for a stand mixer but any good mixer will work.