Dessert

These fall-ish recipes will ease you into full comfort food mode.

This easy, one-skillet apple dessert goes out to all the baking-phobes out there, because making something sweet shouldn't require all the bowls and measuring cups in your kitchen plus an advanced degree in chemistry. Pink Ladies and Granny Smiths are our go-to baking apples, but you can choose any kind you like as long as it has a firm texture and a good bit of acidity.

We went through 125 crepes testing this crepe cake recipe—so we learned a lot.

Stacks on stacks on stacks.

The opening of Federal Donuts was, well, a hot mess.

This recipe is too easy to pass up.

An earth-shattering crust with creamy custard filling—the stuff dreams are made of.

You can make the creamy, custardy treat with an earth-shattering crust at home—in a muffin pan!

A cheesecake, a pumpkin pie, and a pecan pie walk into a bar...

Halloween's most controversial candy, now in a cone.

The quest for the Slurpee Holy Grail.

Yesss! And you can even use store-bought jam if you want.

These cocoa brownies are the kind of thing that you eat too much of and get a stomachache after and don't. even. care.

Molly Young reports on the diet ice cream we all hate to love.

This might be the best flavor yet.

I got my wedding cake at Costco, and so should you.

Tartine Manufactory's ice cream concoction is the stuff sweet dreams are made of—and now you can make it at home

Plums are summer’s all-stars. You should eat and cook with them only when they are peaking, plentiful, and widely available in many varieties.

The sesame balls will float to the surface before they’re done frying. Use a spider or a slotted spoon to keep them submerged until they’re golden brown and puffed up. This recipe is from Mister Jiu's in San Francisco, CA.

Okay, this is actually a cheesecake, but it’s so creamy and light that you won’t care what it’s called, you’ll just ask for more. 

Feel free to use your favorite kind of plum for this pudding recipe, but we recommend prune plums, which have an almond-shaped body that tapers at the end. They’re on the smaller side, hold up well, and the pit comes off the flesh easily, all of which makes them especially good for baking.

This recipe makes 12 individual tartlets, but you could easily halve the recipe and just make 6.

Meet the 2017 dessert of the year, from Tartine Manufactory in San Francisco.

Trust us: This simple berry-studded cake recipe is a real keeper.