Dessert

Our best lemon curd recipe is low-effort, high-reward, and results in a spread so light you’ll want to eat it with a spoon.

This East African snack is fluffy, crispy, and mildly sweet—like the best parts of French beignets and American old-fashioned doughnuts combined into one bite.

However you look at boxed cake mix—a desperate measure for desperate times or a jumping-off point for an infinite number of delicious desserts—here are our best strategies to make it taste better than you ever imagined.

Sure, you could eat them out of hand, but our favorite strawberry recipes prove the spring gems can do so much more.

The decoration is built right in.

This plushy almond cake with toasted-sugar edges is the perfect match for sweet fruit and a dollop of softly whipped cream.

Meet Chris Morocco’s ideal brownie: fudgy, rich, and plenty chocolaty.

If Easter Bread Grand Prix were a thing, this tender orange-and-lemon-scented bread would be the clear winner.

Aromatic and flavorful, this tender butter cake features both coconut and cardamom for a floral, tropical take on classic yellow cake.

With six layers of spice cake and an orchard’s worth of apple butter, this Appalachian apple stack cake IS the party.

This larger-than-life gluten-free chocolate soufflé gets a flavor boost from nutty brown butter.

In case it’s not clear: We really like cake. A lot.

Coconut sticky rice with mango is a classic Thai dessert. This easy method eliminates the need for any special equipment.

Not that anyone needs an excuse to eat more dessert, but we've got 41 of them.

Calling all project bakers: Here’s a recipe for building a beautiful dome cake, just like the ones you’ve seen all over the internet. 

Inspired by Brazilian bolo de cenoura, this carrot cake skips the tedious step of grating carrots and blends them right into the batter instead. 

Cleverly designed to be gluten-, dairy-, and mixer-free, this brownie-like dessert is a great choice for anyone, anytime.

Chewy chocolate chip cookie lovers: Here’s another to love. Bolstered by brown butter, macadamia nuts, and miso, it’s got depth, balance, and personality.

If there’s only one cake you ever learn to make, let it be this: a classic with soft, colorful vanilla cake layers and a rich chocolate-sour cream frosting.

Indulge your “Great British Baking Show” yearnings with this jam-filled, cream-slathered classic best enjoyed with a cup of tea. 

A smidge of almond extract delivers a boost of flavor to our best vanilla cake recipe, and the cream cheese buttercream frosting takes it over the top.

In case the blood orange caramel cascading over this cake isn’t tempting enough, the tender crumb is also delicately perfumed with woodsy rosemary sugar.

Small, snack-size peach pies with a jammy sweet center and flaky crust are fried to golden goodness for a perfect personal dessert

Simple but party-worthy, this tart features a tender shortbread press-in crust and bright custardy filling that sets on top while it bakes.