Dessert

These tender, buttery sugar cookies use cold butter (no waiting around for yours to soften!) and come together in a food processor, so you can go from zero to dough in minutes.

The classic crumbly linzer cookie gets nutty depth from the addition of toasted barley flour.

Almond flour is a wonderfully sweet, nutty complement for fresh carrots, walnuts, and raisins.

Like the best possible Morning Glory muffins but with grated butternut squash instead of carrot.

These buttery frangipane-filled pecan buttons are decadent without being fragile, and they make excellent cookies for boxing up and giving as gifts.

These chocolate chunklet cookies are ingeniously baked in a muffin tin, resulting in perfectly crispy, caramelized edges and soft centers.

Sweet, bitter, creamy, and so, so good, milk tea makes for an irresistible base for this bread pudding.

If the joy of frolicking in a field of flowers could be captured in a cookie, it would be these crackly, chewy lavender-lemon crinkle cookies.

These showstopping miniature baked Alaskas are as foolproof as they are impressive, plus every easy-to-make component can be made ahead of time.

This tender, gently spiced cake enrobed in dark chocolate ganache requires that you make your own sweet potato purée. And yes, it’s absolutely worth it.

Break out the vanilla ice cream and tuck into a slice of this fun, floral take on the classic apple pie.

When life gives you lemons, make Mina Stone's irresistibly moist and zesty olive oil cake. 

If a caramel apple and a snickerdoodle got together and created some seriously delicious magic, you'd end up with these soft and chewy cookies that taste like a mug of warm spiced cider on a crisp fall day.

Try eating just one of these picarones, doughnut-like Peruvian confections that are drenched in a fig-flavored syrup.

If you wait all year for apple-picking season then spend all fall baking every single apple dessert, this earthy, nutty apple and rye cake has your name all over it.

The dough for this decadent pear and chocolate tart uses a clever technique called fraisage, which creates a flaky crust that rolls out with minimal cracking.

The shape of pastry tip you use for this churros recipe is very important. If the tip isn’t closed, or rounded off, the churros may break as you’re frying them (we used size 845 tips).

Your two favorite breakfasts (syrupy pancakes and doughnuts) now coexist in the form of a pillowy, maple-glazed doughnut. 

Imagine if a cinnamon roll and a pound cake had a fluffy little baby, and that baby got drizzled with cream cheese icing. Thanks to Jocelyn Delk Adams and her grandmother, this baby is a reality (and we have the recipe).

Freeze-dried strawberries are our new baking obsession. You’ll understand why once you’ve made these strawberry doughnut muffins.

No frills and no fuss. This banana pudding is the real, decadent deal. 

Sometimes you need a dessert that doesn’t hog the spotlight but still wins fans.

Whether you’re Team Smooth or Team Chunky, there’s a pick in here for you.

Picnic food should keep well and be easy to transport. These recipes fit the bill.