Desserts

A creamy custard flecked with flakes of sweet coconut. That’s what you can expect from pasteis de coco, a dessert classic from Portugal.

• (18)
• 15 M
• 45 M
• 68

These pillowy puddings practically resonate with lemony loveliness. Someone pass a spoon, please.

• (5)
• 20 M
• 1 H
• 14

This sophisticated chocolate fix draws on just three ingredients, comes together in minutes, and is satiating beyond belief.

• (3)
• 5 M
• 20 M
• 21

“I’ve actually had friends lift their gratin dish and lick it clean—right at the table!” says David Lebovitz. We’ll have one of those. Actually, we’ll have two.

• Quick Glance
• 15 M
• 2 H
• 10

This Southern melding of pie and pudding is obscenely, ridiculously rich. Oh, Lord, just take us now.

• (1)
• 1 H, 45 M
• 5 H
• 10

A luxurious and crazily simple dessert with a subtle sweetness and a lovely tanginess.

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• 15 M
• 5 H, 15 M
• 0

Traditional Portuguese rice pudding is cooked risotto-style with a lilt of citrus and the warmness of cinnamon. Easy as can be. With all the creamy richness you’ve come to expect from rice pudding.

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• 30 M
• 1 H
• 0

These fancy-sounding desserts are essentially creamy custards that come together with very little time or effort from half-and-half, brown sugar, pumpkin, eggs, and warm spices. So good you’re gonna want them year round.

• Quick Glance
• 25 M
• 4 H, 30 M
• 0

Your favorite tea turned sideways, making it a creamy dessert with a crackling, shattering caramelized sugar topping.

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• 30 M
• 4 H
• 0

Far Breton is a custardy cake similar to a clafouti gilded with rum-soaked prunes and a specialty of Brittany, France. And you know any dessert lovely enough for the French is gonna be something really quite special.

• (1)
• 25 M
• 1 H
• 4