Desserts & Baking

Mississippi Mud Pie

A soft chocolate-pudding dessert with a baked chocolate-cookie base, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, shavings, and optional nuts.

A two-layer vanilla cake with butter, vegetable oil, whole milk, two eggs and two whites, finished with prepared buttercream.

A small two-layer coconut cake with sour cream, a cream-of-coconut soak, prepared vanilla buttercream, and coconut flakes.

An egg-free chocolate mousse filling in a briefly baked cookie crust, finished with whipped cream after a long refrigerator chill.

An American-style buttercream flavored with almond extract and optional vanilla, with milk or cream added only as needed.

Full-fat canned coconut milk and chia seeds thicken in the refrigerator, with toasted shredded coconut added at serving.

A small cocoa-flavored whipped-cream dessert made without eggs, gelatin, or melted chocolate.

An egg-free powdered-sugar glaze with corn syrup and vanilla, prepared in minutes and left to dry on decorated cookies.

Browned butter, finely ground espresso, and semi-sweet chocolate flavor a dough that is portioned and frozen before baking.

A flourless peanut-butter and egg dough holds small marshmallow pieces, baked in two trays of twelve cookies.