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Top 10: Fast Desserts

By Food & Wine
Updated May 05, 2017
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These elegant recipes include plum puff dumplings and honey-sweetened mascarpone with berries and pistachios.
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Fudgy Chocolate-Walnut Cookies

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François Payard's divinely gooey chocolate cookies are flourless.

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Gianduja Mousse

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As if the chocolate-hazelnut spread gianduja isn't delicious enough straight off the spoon, F&W's Grace Parisi folds in whipped cream and crème fraîche to create a truly decadent (and ridiculously easy) mousse. For a supereasy ice cream sandwich, spoon the mousse between chocolate wafers and freeze overnight.

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Plum Puff Dumplings

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For her elegant interpretation of fruit danish, Grace Parisi tosses wedges of big purple plums with sugar and cardamom, then pinches them into neat little puff pastry pockets and bakes them.

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Honey-Sweetened Mascarpone with Berries and Pistachios

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Dahlia Narvaez adored the deliciously rich mascarpone cheese she ate in Umbria. "It's such a great backdrop for all the different honeys made in Italy," she says. She made this dish with delicate Umbrian wildflower honey but says stronger honeys like chestnut would also be terrific.

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Lemon-Cherry Yogurt Parfait

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Thick and creamy Greek-style yogurt is a fast and healthy base for tangy parfaits. Here, Grace Parisi folds some of the yogurt with lemon juice and zest, mixes the rest with chunky cherry preserves, then spoons the yogurt into glasses in alternate layers.

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Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes

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F&W's Grace Parisi invites you to play with two sensational batters, three fabulous frostings and loads of toppings to create your own irresistible mix-and-match cupcake variations.

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Warm Chocolate Cakes with Mascarpone Cream

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In his riff on Black Forest cake, a favorite dessert of his father's, Hosea Rosenberg tops individual cakes with mascarpone cream instead of whipped cream and luscious brandied cherries instead of jarred.

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Confit of Peaches with Mint

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"If you grew up in America, that summertime peach...it's straight out of Norman Rockwell," says Thomas Keller. There's no showy technique behind this incredibly easy, luscious dessert—you just need great ripe, slightly firm peaches to soak in a simple fruit-infused syrup. Keller tops the fruit with a dollop of Petit Suisse, a French fresh cheese sold in small tubs at some specialty food stores, and a sprinkling of whole toasted almonds. He prefers marcona, the delectable Spanish nuts.

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Cocoa Crème Fraîche Cupcakes

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Meg Ray and Caitlin Alissa Williams usually bake this wonderfully rich cocoa crème fraîche batter in a loaf pan, but it bakes even faster in cupcake tins. If the amount of batter fills more than one standard 12-cup muffin pan, just bake the rest in sturdy foil baking cups set on a baking sheet.

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Plum–and–Honey Sabayon Gratins

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This stunning plum-studded sabayon—an airy custard sweetened with clover honey and Moscato—is summer's answer to crème brûlée. If you don't have Moscato on hand, any honey-inflected dessert wine will do, such as Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise or a late-harvest Riesling.

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1 of 10 Fudgy Chocolate-Walnut Cookies
2 of 10 Gianduja Mousse
3 of 10 Plum Puff Dumplings
4 of 10 Honey-Sweetened Mascarpone with Berries and Pistachios
5 of 10 Lemon-Cherry Yogurt Parfait
6 of 10 Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes
7 of 10 Warm Chocolate Cakes with Mascarpone Cream
8 of 10 Confit of Peaches with Mint
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