These pillowy soft puddings are shot through with lemon flavor. A perfect and refreshing ending to a leisurely meal.

These little cups of toasted coconut, full of creamy dark chocolate, are like chocolate-dipped macaroons in reverse: lots of chocolate and a little coconut.

Thick, rich, and decadent, this chocolate cake is soft and pudding-like in the middle surrounding by cakey sides and and crinkly top. Think dessert spoon bread.

Here the classic French custard with a wallop of fresh ginger in addition to vanilla. On top are blackberries in a sweet-tart sauce.

This lighter version of bread pudding uses brioche, has a minty-lemon flavor, and is bursting with deep-purple baked blueberries.

A thick, decadent Italian chocolate pudding made all the more sinful by the addition of chopped roasted hazelnuts and crumbled butter cookies.

Outrageously popular in Portugal, these custard cups, called pasteis de nata, have a creamy egg filling and a crunchy pastry that are positively addictive.

For this sweet Christmas dessert, slices of sponge cake are dipped in a sugar syrup then drizzled with a custard sauce and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Rice pudding is a Portuguese staple. This lighter recipe, which doesn’t call for the traditional use of eggs, is flavored with lemon and dusted with cinnamon.

A creamy custard riddle with flakes of sweet coconut and a hint of lemon are what these cups, called pasteis de coco in the Azores, Portugal, are all about.

This isn’t your nona’s tiramsu. Here layers of coffee-soaked sponge cake alternate with a cream cheese-mascarpone cheese filling and are dusted with cocoa.