Desserts & Baking

Almond Buttercream Frosting

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.

A 9×13-inch yellow cake-mix bake layered with a cinnamon-sugar and butter mixture, served in twelve pieces.

Three lemon-scented cake layers containing blueberries, with one clearly separated cream cheese frosting formula.

Two oil-based red cake layers baked with buttermilk and a small cocoa quantity, then covered in cream cheese frosting.

Cutout butter cookies with openings filled by crushed hard candy that melts and sets into colorful windows.