Dessert Recipes

Sturdy Royal Icing for Gingerbread Houses

Make this mortar-like icing for assembling gingerbread houses.

Perfect Royal Icing

Improve royal icing with a few simple tweaks.

Hello Dolly Bars

Coconut, chocolate chips, pecans, and a graham cracker base.

Quick and Easy Drop Biscuits

Just 25 minutes and five basic ingredients stand between you and these fluffy, tender drop biscuits.

Easy Pie Dough

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chewy chocolate chip cookies with crisp edges, a rich, buttery, toffee-like flavor, big chocolate chunks, and a sprinkle of sea salt.

Construction Gingerbread

Build a house that's good enough to eat!

Almond Biscotti With Anise

The perfect choice for care packages, cookie jars, and holiday gifting.

Chewy Brown Sugar Cookies

Warm and chewy brown sugar cookies really hit the spot, and in only 30 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookies

A holiday classic, with or without the optional frosting.

Easy Homemade Caramel Sauce

Fast, easy, and delicious.

Rolled Sugar Cookie Cutouts

Bake them crisp and golden or keep them soft and pale: These sugar cookies are perfect for care packages and holiday gifts alike.

Easy Dulce de Leche

How to make dulce de leche from a can of sweetened condensed milk.

Homemade Biscoff (Belgian Speculoos Cookies)

How to make the world's best caramelized biscuits.

Spritz Cookies

Crisp, buttery, and fun-to-make cookies.

Oreo Cake

Oreo cake. Oreo Frosting. You really can't go wrong.

Easy Chocolate Rugelach

This rugelach has a tender, buttery dough and a rich chocolate filling.

Old-Fashioned Flaky Pie Dough

This easy pie dough recipe doesn't require special equipment or training.

Stained Glass Windows

Basic Italian Meringue

Brown Butter Shortbread Cookies

A brown-butter twist on French sablés, with toasted sugar and malted milk powder for extra richness and complexity.

Lofthouse-Style Frosted Sugar Cookies

Cakey-cookie lovers, unite!

Easy No-Bake Cheesecake

Simple, low-stress, and eminently satisfying.

Perfect Swiss Meringue

An updated classic.