Desserts Recipes

Satiny chocolate drizzle for a Bundt cake. It's also great on cookies and doughnuts.

Make chocolate frosting without powdered sugar with this boiled fudge-like icing. Spread icing on a completely cooled cake.

This caramel frosting is delicious. I have had this recipe for over 30 years. This smooth, sweet topping is perfect for cakes, pumpkin cupcakes, or apple fritters.

This is the gingerbread cookie icing that my mother always made at Christmas.

This strawberry cake filling is easy to make and not too sweet.

Make frosting without powdered sugar with this easy recipe. This quick frosting is light and fluffy and looks like whipped cream. The recipe makes about 3 1/2 cups, enough to fill and frost a 2-layer cake.

This chocolate glaze for cake is rich, decadent, and oh so easy! I use this glaze on brownies, Bundt cakes, ice cream, or whatever needs a little chocolate.

Fill pastry with cream made with this classic recipe for pastry cream often used in bakeries and restaurants. It can be used to fill cakes, pies, or pastries. To make a lighter filling, fold in plain whipped cream.

This apple pie filling recipe is perfect to make during apple season. It makes seven jars of canned filling, which lets you get ahead for the holidays!

Best chocolate frosting recipe I've found! It's rich, smooth, and easy to spread.

This milk chocolate frosting is smooth, creamy, and not too dark. I've been using this chocolate frosting recipe forever, and several friends now use it as their "favorite frosting!" I just wanted to share it with chocolate lovers everywhere! It will frost, but not fill, an 8- or 9-inch cake.

This whipped cream cheese frosting is so decadent everyone will be asking if they can lick the bowl! It pipes very well.

This is a superb lemon frosting and does not take long to make.

Moist pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting are the perfect holiday treat for you and your family to enjoy! Keep refrigerated as they taste best served cold.

We look forward to making this cherry compote every summer with fresh tart cherries. It tastes sweet and tangy at the same time! Delicious on vanilla bean gelato, cheesecake, pancakes, Greek yogurt, and more!

Chocolate ganache is a silky smooth mixture of chocolate and cream. It's perfect for filling, frosting, and glazing cakes, making chocolate truffles, or serving as a decadent dip!

This homemade apple pie filling recipe lets you treat your family with pies year-round.

This peanut butter frosting is light and fluffy — the perfect topping for brownies, chocolate cake, and cupcakes. Sweet but not too sweet; peanut buttery but not greasy. This creamy frosting tastes wonderful and won't overpower your chocolate treats!

Classic lemon curd that's wonderfully tart, sweet, and smooth. Delicious spread on scones or used to fill cakes, cupcakes, tarts, and more!

This sugar cookie icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different colorings as you desire to make beautiful decorations on your cookies. This recipe makes enough icing to decorate a dozen sugar cookies.

This cream cheese frosting is made with butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and confectioners' sugar for a rich and smooth topping on cakes.

After failing to find the perfect recipe for buttercream frosting, I found one that worked for me and then added my own two cents.

This whipped cream recipe shows you how to make sweetened whipped cream that holds its shape. For best results make sure the whisk and bowl are ice cold.

This frosting recipe is great with Black Forest cake or any other cake. Pair this icing with cherry pie filling and your favorite chocolate cake for a delicious Black Forest cake.

Crème pâtissière, sometimes shortened to creme pat, is a rich and creamy vanilla pastry cream or thick custard that has the perfect consistency for filling eclairs, cream puffs, and fruit tarts.

These Boston cream pie cupcakes are everything you love about Boston cream pie—the fluffy vanilla cake, pastry cream filling, and rich chocolate frosting—just in miniature form!

Stabilized whipped cream holds up longer on desserts because it doesn't separate. Gelatin stiffens the whipped cream and makes the texture seem fuller and slightly spongy. It's perfect for topping a sweet pie with rosettes or to frost a cake.

This German chocolate cake frosting makes the perfect coconut pecan topping for German chocolate cake.

You don't have to make a Williamsburg orange cake to enjoy this creamy and buttery Williamsburg frosting made with orange liqueur and orange zest.

Chantilly cream is a sweeter version of whipped cream flavored with vanilla. It's satiny smooth and will hold its shape, making it perfect for spreading, frosting, or dolloping on anything that needs a sweet touch! My family loves it on pancakes and chocolate mousse. Enjoy, from my family to yours!

This walnut pie was always a hit at my grandmother's Woman's Club bake sales.

A wonderful white wedding cake recipe. The secret ingredient of sour cream makes this cake so moist, dense, and delicious. I use this recipe for my kids' birthdays, but it's a favorite for wedding cakes, too. This recipe can easily be doubled.

A delicious apple crumb cake recipe. Finally, after all these years, I've come up with a solution for people who can't decide whether to make an apple crumble or a coffee cake. This features the best things about both of those recipes. It's like baking a crumb-topped coffee cake on top of another coffee cake!

A yummy chocolate chip cookie pie with nuts. Usually served warm with ice cream or whipped cream.

These apple bars are easy to make with fresh apples, nuts, and cinnamon. They're delicious and hardly last a day at my house!

This pecan pie without corn syrup is sweet and flavorful without the overpowering sweetness of corn syrup. In this recipe, eggs, brown and white sugars, and a touch of flour help to thicken the filling, so your pie will be perfectly set and ready to please guests at your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Dollop each slice with whipped cream and a sprig of fresh mint.

This microwave peanut brittle is a wonderful recipe, but you should only make it once a year because you can't stop eating it!

These peanut butter marshmallow squares are always a hit! I have been making them for years.

For me, the best part about any coffee cake recipe is the crispy, crunchy, buttery crumb topping. In this recipe, I significantly increased the amount of crumb topping and hid a layer inside the cake!

A giant cookie cake recipe baked in a pizza pan.

Italian torrone is very easy to make at home, but it does take a while — mostly standing at the stove and stirring. But it's worth it for the gorgeous nut-studded, amazingly textured nougat candy you get. A fantastic treat for holiday gifting!

This gorgeous cinnamon swirl Bundt cake uses sour cream to keep it moist. A friend of mine gave me this recipe years ago. This can also be made into small loaf cakes which can be frozen easily.

Roasted almonds are an easy snack idea to serve at any holiday party.

These pignoli cookies are made with almond paste, sugar, and pine nuts for a pleasantly sweet Italian treat! Great for holiday gifting!

This pumpkin crunch cake tastes great and is really easy to make with canned pumpkin and cake mix! Perfect for fall gatherings and holidays.

My aunt made these pumpkin cookies every year in the fall. I enjoyed them so much that I make them now for a soft and tasty treat!

Making and eating Hello Dolly bars have been a tradition in our family for a long time. Every Christmas we always have to make these.

I had pralines in New Orleans and loved them, so I tried different combos and liked this one best.

These cranberry pistachio biscotti studded with red and green colors make great Christmas cookies.

This maple sugar candy is made with only maple syrup and is pure and creamy. It's a melt-in-your-mouth treat, almost like fudge! Add anything you want, like chopped nuts. Use small maple leaf molds or other pretty shapes.

Puffed corn can be found in the potato chip aisle of your grocery store and is used in this recipe to make great caramel corn without hulls or unpopped kernels. Warning: you need to make a double batch of this because it doesn't last long, at least not in my house. Very addicting. Love it!

This pistachio cake is as easy as it is tasty. A delightful green Bundt cake made by enhancing a cake mix and pudding with homemade pistachio butter. It's topped with a sweet and creamy glaze for a delicious dessert.

I have made this Texas sheet cake recipe for years. My children always chose it for their birthday cake over any other, and it makes enough for a crowd. Moist and delicious. Very easy to make. Enjoy!

This easy sock it to me cake uses a butter yellow cake mix and adds cinnamon, brown sugar, and pecans.

Learn how to make banana cake with this versatile and quick recipe. Not only is it moist and delicious, but the same batter can be used to make banana bread and muffins. This cake is delicious frosted with chocolate or cream cheese frosting.

This Rolo pretzel recipe is easy and fun to make with pretzels, caramel-covered chocolate candies, and pecan nuts for a delicious sweet treat. Store cooled turtles in an airtight container.

These Italian wedding cookies are sometimes called Mexican wedding cookies or butterballs and can be shaped into crescents. They're also delicious made with pecans or hazelnuts instead of almonds. Great for gifting! This recipe was given to me by a friend who grew up in central Europe; they are the best wedding cookies I've ever had.

Maple walnut ice cream is a Canadian favorite! This sweet ice cream actually stays soft even after a week.

This chocolate pecan pie is made just like a traditional pecan pie, with the addition of chocolate chips. As the pie bakes, the chips melt, adding rich, chocolaty flavor in every bite. It's always the first dessert to go at our family's Thanksgiving!

These thumbprint cookies are filled with raspberry jam and drizzled with a sweet glaze. They look so pretty on a cookie tray and taste delicious!