Dessert

Nutty bites for an afternoon boost or postpartum nourishment.

Like one-skillet chicken pot pie, no-bake margarita pie, and our best tips for store-bought pastry.

Consider these single-serve cookies a gift from you to you.

A bit of cherry-flavored Jell-O powder makes these ice pops taste like they came from an ice cream truck (in the best way!).

Part silky flan, part decadent chocolate cake, chocoflan, or impossible cake, as it is sometimes called, feels like a magic trick, inverting in the oven as it bakes.

When you need a sweet treat but it’s too hot to bake, make one of these oven-free desserts.

Legendary pastry chef Claudia Fleming wraps both sweet and sour cherries into these flaky handheld treats.

This sturdy almond-polenta cake is a gentle landing spot for fresh figs, and also happens to be gluten-free. Swap figs for plums, raspberries, or blueberries.

Stacked with chopped bananas, vanilla pudding, and crunchy Marie biscuits, these individual banana pudding jars are the perfect make-ahead summer dessert.

This buttermilk layer cake features a cloud-soft crumb and brown-butter-caramel frosting.

A dusting of coarse sanding sugar gives these lemon cookies a sparkle perfect for any occasion.

Like red, white, and blue layer cakes, ice cream cakes to keep you cool, and sheet cakes to feed a crowd.

Summer means spicy, savory fruit salads made with whatever fresh produce you’ve got, plus lime juice, sugar, fish sauce, dried shrimp, and lots of red chiles.

Airy choux pastry replaces the shortcakes in this delicate dessert, giving the fruit and cream more room to shine.

Eight ingredients, ten minutes of active time, one delightfully fruity summer dessert you’ll remake all season long.

Creamy custard cups, easy no-churn ice creams, and perfectly ripe fruit baked into pie.

Ideal for fresh blueberries in the summer or frozen blueberries all year long, this fruit-studded coffee cake is a winner any time you make it.

An all-purpose gluten-free blend does the heavy lifting here, keeping the ingredient list short and sweet.

Mango cheesecake bars, a berry-studded icebox cake, chocolate coconut pudding, and more.

With three times the fruit flavor, this is the only strawberry cheesecake recipe you’ll ever need.

A bit of almond meal gives this ultrarich chocolate cake an airy but toothsome crumb.

Tender, buttery, and pleasantly crumbly, these salty-sweet shortbread wedges studded with toasted pecans are a grownup version of the childhood favorite.

This fuss-free ice cream doubles down on the chocolate flavor with a rich dark cocoa base and a glossy fudge ripple—no churning required.

Who doesn’t want chocolate chips in their cookies? A lot of us, apparently.