800+ Dessert Recipes

These cream puffs, called chouquettes, are infused with orange-flower water and freckled with sugar. Serve them as an after-school snack, as they do in France.

We know many who've fallen for these dulce de leche-filled shortbread cookies while in Latin America. Few have recovered. Rightly so.

It's time to melt some chocolate, toast some nuts, and cross some names off your holiday gift list.

First you make an Oreo cookie crust. Then you smother it with a bittersweet and semisweet chocolate custard. The final flourish is whipped cream infused with vanilla. Sigh.

Purplish cherries sink into a rich, fragrant frangipane as they bake into sweet oblivion and contrast spectacularly with the crisp puff pastry crust. Sounds terrible, eh?

Yep. You've heard of breakfast for dinner. We're up leveling to breakfast as dessert. Not just any dessert. Dark chocolate decadence with crisp edges that's delicious alone or with hot fudge sauce and vanilla ice cream.

Silken lemon curd with a surprise layer of chocolate slathered between creamy tartness and buttery, crunchy flakiness. Any takers?

This dreamy and creamy alternative to pumpkin pie has won us over. We think it'll woo you, too.

The classic Italian dessert, made the old fashioned way with crisp pastry shells, sweetened ricotta, and chocolate chips.

Not Portuguese? Not a problem. It won't lessen your appreciation for these little lovelies with the shatteringly crisp pastry cradling ridiculously creamy custard.

What's with the thankfulness, you ask? For starters, this sleek, sophisticated, tender-crumbed cake smothered in butterscotch and stacked to the heavens.

An exceptionally, deeply chocolate dessert that feels light and cool. It makes an elegant finish on a warm summer night.

A superlative version of the classic American quick bread that everyone loves. And that everyone pretty much always has the ingredients for on hand.

Panettone, which makes its traditional Italian Christmas appearance, is gussied up here with any dried fruit you fancy. An ever so slight twist on a classic.

These chocolate-y devil's food cupcakes boast a creamy cheesecake-y addition. You may never go back to plain chocolate.

You're going to feel like a cheat when you serve these obscenely simple tarts to guests. Shhhh. Your secret's safe with us.

This classic French dessert is an eggy cake that's studded with currant, soaked with a vanilla-rum sauce and brushed with an apricot glaze.

Alice Medrich strikes again with this flaky, buttery crust filled with rich chocolate custard infused with a hint of espresso.

An impressive dessert, created by David himself, gets an autumnal lilt from pumpkin purée in the batter and maple syrup in the frosting. One of our most popular cakes.

What makes this apple cake so incredibly moist that it stands out from the rest? Lots of things, including a lovely swirl of cream poured on top of the batter and baked right in.