Our Most Challenging Dessert Recipes

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These French pastries are the real deal: crunchy and caramelized to a deep mahogany brown on the outside, moist and custardy within, and deeply perfumed with dark rum and vanilla bean. Get the recipe for Canelés de Bordeaux

Layers of ice cream are enrobed in fluffy meringue in a classic baked Alaska.

Pastry chef Christine Ferber’s not-too-sweet kugelhopf, an Alsatian cake baked in a distinctive ring mold, has just a few choice raisins per slice. Enjoy with a sweet Alsatian wine, like gewürztraminer or muscat.

At New York’s Milk Bar, Christina Tosi makes this towering cake every spring, when sweet and tiny tristar strawberries are in season. This is by no means an everyday cake, but it’s worth the work that you’ll put in, and worthy of a special occasion. Get the recipe for Strawberry Lemon Cake »

Classic Eclairs

New Orleans Doberge Cake

Looking for the best bûche de noël recipe? We’ve got an easy recipe for this French Christmas dessert that never fails to inspire joy during the holidays. Get the recipe for Bûche de Noël (Yule Log) Recipe

Literally named “crunch in the mouth,” croquembouche is an edible monument of caramelized pastry.

Beautiful homemade croissants, each containing a bar of high-quality dark chocolate, make for an impressive and indulgent addition to a breakfast spread.

Mocha Dacquoise Cake

Get the recipe for Thai Steamed Coconut-Pandan Cake (Khanom Chan) »