Our Best Dessert Recipes & Ideas

Ready, set, dessert.

Say hello to your new favorite fall dessert mash-up.

Every fall party needs a batch.

The 3-ingredient apple cake is a must.

It turned me from a grape skeptic into a voracious grape eater. 

It has seven layers to love.

Top them on vanilla ice cream. (Just trust us.)

Consider this your fall bucket list.

You'll need a whole bottle of red to make this pie!

I can't stop snacking on them.

Definitely making a batch of these.

It really takes it to the next level.

Extra pecan crunch, please!

The gooey pumpkin filling + maple cream cheese icing = everything.

Plus, it's a great baking project for kids.

It's scary good.

They're so much easier to make than actual apple pie.

They go way beyond pumpkin spice.

One forgotten pantry ingredient makes all the difference.

And the winner was the best I've ever had.

You haven’t had cheesecake like this before.

I'm making this all fall.

Wait until you taste the spiced-sugar coating.

One bite will transport you back to your childhood.

They're chewy-yet-crisp and loaded with pumpkin and warm fall spices.

Five layers of deliciousness.

Oh, and they take 10 minutes to throw together.

This dessert is pure nostalgia.

All of the flavor, none of the frying.

Every bite is hot, gooey, and ultra-crispy.

The minimalist dessert gets a maximalist upgrade.

Grab a spoon.

It’s rich and amazingly moist.

Ready to pack into little pink boxes — or directly into your mouth.

The latest viral hack really delivers.

It's as rich and creamy as you could ever hope for.

This is the definitive recipe for classic vanilla custard ice cream.

Yes, it’s as light and fluffy as a cloud.

The icebox cake needs no cooking or baking, and yet it yields what you would swear are slices of tender cake layers, filled with airy whipped cream and fresh fruit.

Turn 5 ingredients into the dreamiest dessert.

When life hands you lemons, make creamy limoncello bars.

The retro mall-style cookie cake you know and love, only better.

No espresso machine required!

Perfect for fans that don’t own an ice cream maker!

You just need 5 ingredients and there's no baking required.

This sticky rice pudding can be served for breakfast or as a dessert. When I was traveling in Thailand, I had this rice pudding almost every morning, served in small banana leaf bowls, with thick coconut cream and fresh mangoes. It is easily one of my favorite food memories of all time. You can make this rice pudding with black or white glutinous rice. (Or use both! The black rice tints the white a delicate purplish color.) Both varieties are available in most Asian groceries.

No crust required.

As much as we love ice cream, we wouldn’t want you to miss out on another sweet, creamy treat: homemade frozen yogurt. So I went about looking for the very best method for making frozen yogurt. After testing several recipes I’ve found that whipping up your own batch of fro-yo isn’t too different from making your own ice cream, though there are a few key differences to keep in mind.

Feels goods, right?

The fastest, most refreshing ice cream trick we know.

One of my most enduring childhood memories is watching my bà nội, or grandmother, shaving corn – the clean, confident stroke of her knife, and the tumble of sweet, juicy kernels released from the cob. If we were lucky, she’d stir the kernels into a pot of coconut milk with tapioca pearls to make chè, a delectable Vietnamese pudding. I can think of few better treats than chè on a summer afternoon.

And end with more than just cake.

No tempering needed.

Just saying.

For whenever a craving strikes.

You only need four ingredients!

It’s fruity, fluffy, and absolutely delicious.

Let’s talk about holiday appetizers and cocktail party snacks. Everyone needs just one or two really reliable crowd-pleasers around the holidays, no? It’s a relief for a cook to set out a plate of tasty bites while he puts the finishing touches on a meal. And in the spirit of giving, let me offer you the prettiest, easiest, and most lusciously decadent appetizer I know: baked brie in sweet cranberry sauce. I mean, hello.

It's ingenious.

It's an effortlessly airy vanilla cake layered with velvety custard and perfectly ripe strawberries.

Summer fruit calls for summer cobblers and crumbles, and I’m no procrastinator when it comes to such things. This crumble is the best one I’ve cooked up so far this summer — it’s a thick, jammy pan of tangy rhubarb and blackberries, topped with a brown sugar cobbler-crumble, thick and chewy, like the best cross of a cookie and a biscuit. But I can’t take any credit at all; with summer fruit like this, how can you go wrong?

You likely have everything you need.

Creamy, tangy, no-cook panna cotta is perfect no matter the season.