Dessert Recipes

The ultimate brownie recipe that beat every boxed mix in blind taste tests! Ultra fudgy, a crackly top, and loaded with chocolate.

This amazing flourless chocolate cake is so rich, smooth and chocolatey! As an added bonus, it is also gluten-free! If you love chocolate, you are going to go crazy about this cake - this is chocoholic's heaven!

This is my favorite homemade chocolate cake recipe. With a super moist crumb and fudgy, yet light texture, this chocolate cake recipe will be your favorite too. Top with chocolate buttercream and chocolate chips for 3x the chocolate flavor. You can also prepare this chocolate layer cake as a sheet cake. See recipe Note.

Best Fall apple dessert. Sauté apples in a caramel sauce and top with easy 15 minute puff pastry, bake and flip for the most impressive apple dessert you've ever served. You can use store-bought puff pastry.

Get Tres Leches Cake with Berries Recipe from Food Network

German plum cake

This recipe for gluten free chicken parmesan makes tender juicy chicken with a super crisp, perfectly browned crust, covered in just the right amount of mozzarella cheese.

This Apple Crumble (Apple Crisp) recipe is the perfect cozy apple dessert. Made with sliced apples and an Oat Apple Crumble Topping, it comes together very easily, can be made ahead, and can also easily be scaled to whatever size you need - a small batch apple crumble or one which can feed a crowd.

These Greek Smash Tacos are perfect for a quick dinner! Plenty of lean protein, vibrant flavors, and plenty of toppings. Tangy feta, crisp cucumbers, zesty yogurt sauce, black olives, and more. They really only take minutes to make.

Homemade Luxardo Maraschino Cherries are a great additonal to your at-home bar. They also make an amazing gift; all you need is a bottle of luxardo liqueur.

Restaurant-quality pan seared salmon—crisp on top and just barely cooked in the center—is easy to make at home.

These bars are tart, rich tasting, and just sweet enough with a crumbly topping and crust sandwiching an easy jammy berry filling.

These cookies have a unique and irresistible texture: a little crisp at the edges, with a soft, sandy center that melts in your mouth. Every bite is a perfect balance of butter and vanilla; hints of both almond and nutmeg add signature bakery-cookie flavor. Pipe the dough for an elegant design or scoop it for a classic drop cookie appearance.

This is the easiest chocolate buttercream frosting—it's hard to mess up and perfect for frosting cakes and cupcakes.

A single layer raspberry peach cake topped with a sugary coating. It's a quick one bowl recipe that is easy to throw together and tastes like summer.

Deliciously lemony blueberry studded cake with a rich and fluffy cream cheese icing.

Raspberry Almond Bars are an excellent option for those who don’t like or can’t eat chocolate.

This one-bowl banana bread — KAF 2018 Recipe of the Year — uses the simplest ingredients, but is incredibly moist and flavorful. While the recipe calls for a 50/50 mix of flours (all-purpose and whole wheat), we often make the bread 100% whole wheat, and honestly? No one can tell, it's that good! And not only is this bread delicious — it's versatile.

These easy homemade lemon bars are both tart and sweet, with a flaky shortbread crust. The perfect spring treat that will leave you wanting more and more!

This vanilla pound cake recipe has been my back pocket recipe for years and I know it will be yours too! This buttery pound cake recipe makes the most amazing loaf cake with an incredibly lush, tight crumb, and can be made days in advance. Leave it plain or finish it with a glaze, everyone will love this super easy recipe! Adding sour cream to the recipe gives the cake moisture without adding density for the most tender crumb. Read my full guide for how to scale the recipe for pan size, and how to get that perfect split down the top of the cake!

Blackberry Sorbet is made with fresh berries and just enough sugar to highlight the pure berry flavor. It's beautiful in it's simplicity and it's simply beautiful.

A soft, tender butter cake, made with sour cream for moisture, with an impossibly light and fluffy crumb. I finish mine with sugar for a crunchy finish, but this cake is the perfect base recipe you will find yourself turning to again and again.

This easy, buttery shortbread cookie recipe comes together quickly. You can use one shortbread recipe to make classic shortbread cookies, or press into a pan to make Scottish shortbread.

This 6-ingredient Almond Butter Cake is dense and cookie-like. It's an almond flavored butter cake, and it's a must make cake for almond-lovers.

A great classic Toffee Recipe!

Easy Berry Crisp made with frozen raspberries and blackberries for a juicy berry filling nestled under a crispy oat topping.

Delicious homemade brownies with dark chocolate chunks and optional nuts.

Delicious chocolate chip cookies with a hint of vanilla and a sprinkle of Maldon salt.

Easy Apple Galette is the perfect apple dessert recipe. This apple galette recipe has a flaky homemade pie crust, a frangipane filling, and a sliced apple topping. A galette gives you the taste of pie but with a whole lot less work!

Light and delicate, these vanilla anise drop cookies are like a cross between meringues and springerle. The true marker of success with anise drop cookies is whether or not they develop “feet” or Füsschen and a top or Haubchen. During the resting, or aging, period a portion of the egg whites and sugar rises to creating a bit of a meringue-like top layer.

Fudgy, cakey, fudgy, cakey... can't make up your mind? If you're looking for a brownie that's right in between those two styles, you've found it. These brownies combine a fudge brownie's ultra-moist texture with a subtle cake-like rise, for the best of both worlds.

Learn how to make sweet and creamy white chocolate buttercream frosting with this easy recipe. Although it looks plain, the frosting is made with melted white chocolate, so there's extra flavor hiding in each creamy swirl. Be sure to use real white chocolate, and not white chocolate morsels. See recipe Notes.

Chocolate chip cookies recipe from Lisa's kitchen

Chewy ginger cookies capture the essence of fall and the holiday season. A family tradition that's easy to make and full of festive flavor.

These yeast-raised, gluten free donuts are so soft and fluffy inside, golden brown outside, and taste just like Krispy Kreme!

This recipe can be doubled

This hot milk cake is a timeless classic! With its soft, tender crumb and light vanilla flavor, it’s perfect for any occasion. Whether served plain, topped with whipped cream, or fresh fruit, this easy-to-make cake will have everyone coming back for seconds.

Little pots of satiny molten chocolate are the ultimate fix for chocoholics in under 30 minutes.

Individual chocolate cakes filled with molten chocolate? This is them! And they're so easy you can make them while your kids clear the table.

Quick and easy recipe for funfetti vanilla sugar cookies is soft, chewy, and filled with rainbow sprinkles! Recipe makes 24 tasty sprinkle cookies, the dough requires no chill time in the refrigerator, and can be baked right away!