Dessert

This chocolate birthday cake recipe calls for dark chocolate in the ganache to balance out the sweetness of the Nutella. For a more kid-friendly cake, use milk chocolate. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

Icing on top and in the middle, sides left bare: This modern-looking style shows off the cake’s decadent (and perfectly even) chocolate layers.

The genius part of this rich and moist sheet cake recipe is the “reverse creaming” method. Instead of creaming butter and sugar before adding the liquid ingredients and flour, you’ll gradually add the liquid ingredients into the flour. As a result, the cake bakes almost perfectly flat—no domed tops, no layers to trim.

Never mess up pie dough again.

Oats for breakfast are good, but oats for dessert are better. These 18 recipes are proof

Pie is great. Cream pie is better.

Make a rhubarb galette. It's spring. It's practically a requirement.

This bread was the talk of the BA office for a few months (in the best possible way). Some quick tips: Use the ripest bananas possible and tent the bread with foil if it’s browning too quickly.

Equal parts fruit crumble and coffee cake, this not-too-sweet dessert starts out bright pink but bakes to a toasty golden brown.

Tandem Coffee + Bakery’s coconut cream pie recipe riffs on the classic in all the right ways. 

You don’t need an ice-cream maker to serve cool, creamy scoops. All you need is a bowl to make semifreddo happen.

Assemble these one at a time so the rhubarb juice doesn’t have time to run wild while you’re finishing them.

Carnation malted milk powder, we love you (and this devilish cake) so, so much. If you're using an 8½x4½" pan, you should hold back 1 cup batter.

If you only have an 8½x4½" pan, there’s no need to go out and get a new one. Simply hold back about 1¾ cups batter for later—it makes a mean waffle!

What's better than cake? Breakfast cake. This one is even (almost) healthy.

The perfect key lime pie is a balance between tart and sweet.

Out of Girl Scout cookies? Don't sweat it. You can make them at home... Plus, this version is vegan and gluten-free.

These cookies are both vegan and gluten-free, but you’d never know it. You can find most of these ingredients in health food stores, well-stocked specialty grocers, and online.

Two different types of apples give you a mix of textures and an ideal sweet-tart filling. If you’re looking to streamline, use one or the other (Pink Ladies are less sour).

It's worth taking a break from dancing to grab one of these desserts.

We have a storied history of publishing extremely complicated wedding cakes. Let's take a trip down memory lane.

Check out these 10 wedding-cake trends to help inspire your custom dessert.

We all know it: A lot of wedding cake is well, bad. Here's how to make sure that doesn't happen.