Sweet treats and baked goods, from quick weeknight desserts to show-stopping bakes worth the extra effort.
A gingerbread trifle recipe layers pieces of store-bought gingerbread with whipped cream, spiced pears, and caramel sauce in a glass bowl, then chills for a few hours so the layers set without the gingerbread turning to mush. I love that this dessert looks like you spent all day on it and actually takes about twenty-five
Leftover Halloween candy cookies are just a basic brown sugar cookie dough with chopped candy bars folded in and pressed on top, baked as one pan of bars instead of individual scooped cookies. You dump in whatever chocolate candy is left in the bowl, chop it small, and let the oven do the rest. I
Black sesame cookies are soft, chewy drop cookies made with ground black sesame seeds or paste that give them a deep nutty flavor, a slightly earthy bite, and a dramatic dark color that looks unlike anything else on a cookie tray. I made these for the first time after seeing them all over my feed
A scoopable cookie is a batch of oversized chocolate chip cookie dough balls baked together in one pan until the edges set and the center stays warm and molten, then scooped directly from the pan with an ice cream scoop. This is the TikTok dessert that took over feeds in 2024 and never really left.
This gluten free chocolate cake gets its moisture from butter, oil, buttermilk, and a cup of boiling water stirred into the batter, and it bakes in about 35 minutes. Nothing says yum like a tasty, moist, gluten free chocolate cake recipe you can whip up at 9:00 pm on a Friday night. After a stressful