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Let's have dessert: You don't need a reason during the holidays

15 Recipes

Let's have dessert: You don't need a reason during the holidays

By AnthonyPesce

Nov. 11, 2014

Thin-crusted apple tart. Recipe here.

Thin-crusted apple tart

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

In Norway, oranges are an exotic import. How lucky are we? Recipe: Norwegian orange cake

Norwegian orange cake

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 10 to 16

Recipe: Pear bourdaloue

Pear bourdaloue

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 12 to 16

Cranberry orange cornmeal cake

1 hour 40 minutes

Serves 18

Jullapat's take on an English dessert is the autumn fool, made with pumpkin purée, whipped cream and mascarpone. Recipe: Autumn fool

Autumn fool

40 minutes

Makes 8 individual fools or one family-style fool

Recipe: Hazelnut brown butter torte with bittersweet chocolate by Karen Hatfield

Hazelnut brown butter torte with bittersweet chocolate

1 hour

Serves 8 to 12

Apple and Calvados crepes

25 minutes

Serves 4

The coconut flan is baked with a caramel sauce. Read the recipe »

The Eatery's toasted coconut honey flan

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 10

I don't know about the "death" part, but when you have a rich cheesecake-like torte flavored with no less than five lemons, you're bound to make any lemon lover swoon Read the recipe »

Death by lemon

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 12

Border Grill's goat milk cajeta flan

2 hours 30 minutes

Serves 12 to 18

Recipe: Banana bread pudding

Banana bread pudding

1 hour 20 minutes

Serves 24

It's a large ring of choux paste sliced horizontally, filled with praline pastry cream and whipped cream and topped with toasted almonds. Recipe: Paris-Brest

Paris-Brest

2 hours 35 minutes

Serves 12

Recipe: The Dearborn Inn's bread pudding

The Dearborn Inn’s bread pudding

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 8 to 12

Ruth Reichl's roasted winter strawberries with ice cream from her new book entitled "Ruth Reichl: My Kitchen Year."

Roasted winter strawberries with ice cream

10 minutes

Serves 4.

The cake is garnished with chocolate crumbles.

Proof Bakery's chocolate espresso layer cake

2 hours

Serves 8 to 12

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