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Desserts

Make a memorable end to a meal, or treat yourself to a sweet snack. There’s a recipe for every occasion here, from craving-quenching Chocolate Mug Cake to perfect-for-gifting Matcha Cookies. Tried and trusted techniques ensure perfect results. Treat your family, coworkers, or just yourself to one of these tempting desserts.

  • This recipe makes the best apple pie ever, with a flaky all-butter crust overstuffed with sweet autumn apples.
    Best Apple Pie
  • Close-up of Matcha Latte Hot Chocolate in a clear glass mug, showcasing the vibrant green color and creamy foam layer on top.
    Matcha Latte Hot Chocolate
  • With a crisp sugar crust and tender interior that's redolent of citrus and fruity olive oil, this delicious Blueberry Olive Oil Cake makes for a mouthwatering snack or light breakfast.
    Blueberry Olive Oil Cake
  • Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding
  • Yuzu Posset
  • The creamiest Panna Cotta recipe ever. Using egg whites instead of gelatin, gives this Italian classic a buttery melt-in-your-mouth texture.
    Creamiest Panna Cotta (No Gelatin)
  • Noone will ever guess these decadent chewy chocolate chunk cookies are plant-based. Best of all, this vegan chocolate cookie recipe comes together in minutes.
    Vegan Chocolate Cookies
  • Close-up shot of a wooden bowl filled with homemade kinako powder, its golden hue hinting at its rich, nutty flavor. With kinako doughnuts and kinako butter in the background.
    Kinako (Roasted Soybean Powder)
  • A silky dome of vanilla-specked vegan panna cotta draped with glossy black sugar syrup, artfully served on a slate plate.
    Vegan Panna Cotta
  • This quick Anko (Japanese Red Bean Paste) recipe is the easiest way to make this sweet treat that forms the basis for sweets like mochi and ohagi.
    Red Bean Paste Recipe (Anko)
  • These matcha pancakes are light and fluffy and taste amazing drizzled with kuromitsu syrup.
    Matcha Pancakes with Kuromitsu
  • A hand holding an irresistible strawberry sandwich half, displaying vibrant strawberries surrounded by velvety whipped cream and soft, cloud-like bread—ready to enjoy.
    Strawberry Sandwich (Ichigo Sando)
  • Ohagi, also known as Botamochi, is a traditional Japanese sweet made with mochi rice, and anko is served here with matcha.
    Ohagi (Botamochi)
  • Crisp and crinkly on the outside and soft and chewy in the center, these matcha crinkle cookies are a deliciously festive holiday treat.
    Matcha Crinkle Cookies
  • Japanese Christmas Cake with strawberries and cream.
    Japanese Christmas Cake
  • Chocolate filled mochi balls are like the Japanese version of chocolate truffles.
    Chocolate Filled Mochi
  • Pillowy butter mochi ricecakes make for a delicious mid-afternoon snack.
    Butter Mochi
  • Burnt Basque Cheesecake is a ridiculously simple dessert that comes together from a handful of ingredients. Matcha (green tea powder) gives this one its vibrant green hue and fragrant flavor.
    Matcha Basque Cheesecake
  • Crisp at the edges and chewy in the center, these fudgy matcha brownies are loaded with white chocolate and green tea powder.
    Matcha Brownies
  • Cross-section of Strawberry Mochi showing a juicy strawberry wrapped in sweet red bean paste and sticky mochi.
    Strawberry Mochi (Ichigo Daifuku)
  • Perfect Pavlova
  • Ultra buttery and chocolatey this hybrid hot fudge starts off as a caramel sauce, giving it a magical texture that's both molten and chewy.
    Chewy Hot Fudge
  • Japanese coffee jelly served in a cup with sweet cream makes for an easy dessert that comes together from just a handful of ingredients.
    Japanese Coffee Jelly
  • This decadently rich and creamy vegan chocolate pudding comes together from a handful of ingredients in under a minute.
    Chocolate Chia Pudding
  • These crispy taiyaki are a Japanese fish-shaped pastry with a crisp buttery crust and sweet red bean paste in the center.
    Taiyaki (たい焼き): Japanese Fish‑Shaped Pastry
  • Rich, creamy, and toasty Basque Burnt Cheesecake.
    Best Burnt Basque Cheesecake
  • Buttery crêpes filled with apples.
    5 Tips for Making Perfect Crêpes
  • Mont Blanc (chestnut cream cake)
  • Hot and Spicy Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • This stack of deliciousness is what's called an Eton Mess. With layers of strawberrries, cream, and meringue, it's so simple and yet it's mindblowingly good.
    Eton Mess (Strawberry Meringue Trifle)
  • These easy delicious Peanut Butter Cookies come together in minutes from just a handful of ingredients and yet they're pack with protein and mouthwateringly good.
    Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
  • Luxuriously smooth scoop of homemade matcha ice cream.
    Matcha Ice Cream (No-Churn)
  • A stack of crispy brown sugar donuts from Okinawa called Sata Andagi. They're cookie crisp on the outside and fluffy in the center.
    Sata Andagi (Okinawan Donuts)
  • Oshiruko or zenzai is a traditional Japanese dessert soup made with sweet adzuki bean paste and mochi.
    Sweet Red Bean Soup
  • A spoonful of chocolate mug cake enrobed in a rich fudgy chocolate sauce.
    Chocolate Mug Cake
  • Rich molten chocolate omelette that comes together in under 10 minutes served with whipped cream and cacao nibs.
    Molten Chocolate Omelette
  • Meyer Lemon Cake
  • A stack of chewy, caky, chocolate chip cookies.
    Better Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • These perfect chocolate cherry brownies have a crisp shell on top and a decadent fudgy center, and they take less than 10 minutes to get in the oven.
    Chocolate Cherry Brownies
  • Poached Aloe
  • Sparkling ume juice with red shiso.
    Ume Juice
  • Key Lime Pie

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