12 Decadent Holiday Desserts

With this recipe, a creamy, gorgeous, crack-free New York-style cheesecake is totally doable, even for beginners!

Molten chocolate cakes, also known as lava cakes, are rich individual chocolate cakes with oozing molten centers.

Made with brown butter and bourbon, this pecan pie has a richer, more complex flavor than the typical pecan pie.

With a crisp, flaky crust and thick, cider-flavored apple filling, this is my idea of the perfect apple pie.

Flan is a rich, sweet custard topped with caramel sauce. It looks fancy, but it’s actually quite simple to make.

With a cakey pecan crust, pumpkin pie filling, and crunchy streusel, this pumpkin torte is an easy and elegant alternative to pumpkin pie.

Don’t be fooled by the French name — this classic chocolate mousse is quick and easy to make.

When topped with vanilla ice cream, this warm chocolate bread pudding tastes like a grown-up brownie sundae.

This old-fashioned vanilla butter cake drenched in syrup is the 1963 winner of the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest.

Instead of the traditional whipped cream topping, this tres leches cake is covered with a rum-spiked dulce de leche glaze.

This warm and comforting banana cake is loved by kids and adults alike.

Think of this chocolate peanut butter tart as a decadent, grown-up version of a Reese’s Peanut Butter cup.