Make candy, tart cranberries the star of any dessert unfold with these recipes for fruity pies, tarts, cookies, and muffins with juicy fillings, colourful toppings, or pops of coloration. Cranberry pies and pie bars are good for Thanksgiving, cranberry cookies make for crowd-pleasing presents this vacation season, and cranberry muffins can brighten any celebration. Here is a bunch of craveable cranberry desserts, from easy to gorgeous, regardless of the event.
Cranberry Crumble Pie
The compote and crumble could be made forward for this berry pie with a fruity filling, heat spices, and a buttery topping.
Dried Cranberry and Chocolate Cookies
Cookbook creator Sally Sampson provides cranberries and rolled oats to buttery chocolate chip cookie dough on this 30-minute cookie recipe with room to riff.
Dorie Greenspan’s Mini Cranberry Tarts
Fill flaky pastry shells with a nut- and dried fruit–studded cranberry sauce and high with a pouf of barely sweetened whipped cream on this leftover-friendly tart recipe from legendary cookbook creator Dorie Greenspan.
Cranberry-Orange Glowing Wine Gelatin
Layers of colourful cranberries with gin and glowing wine with a touch of elderflower liqueur make for a festive, spiked gelatin centerpiece that can play nicely with the pastries filling the dessert unfold.
Cranberry Moscow Mule Gingersnaps
Cookbook creator Vallery Lomas’ comfortable and cakey drop cookies pack a punch with freshly grated ginger, ginger syrup, and floor dried ginger, plus specks of lime zest and vodka-plumped dried cranberries.
Roasted Spiced Cranberry Pie
F&W’s Paige Grandjean roasts cranberries to concentrates their taste, provides a kick with lemongrass and gochugaru, and offers the filling a pop of tropical brightness with skinny strips of dried mango. A sprinkling of granola finishes the pie with a crunchy, streusel-like topping.
Goat Cheese Cake with Wine-Poached Cranberries
Iconic pastry chef Claudia Fleming drapes her creamy vacation cheesecake with a tart, glistening cranberry gelée and candied pistachios. Every part could be made forward.
Brown Sugar Bundt Cake With Candied Cranberries
Glaze this tender cranberry cake with a candy vanilla-flecked buttermilk for a fragile dessert from James Beard Award-winning author and chef Lisa Donovan with delicate spice, shiny acidity, and tang from orange zest.
Mhalabiyeh (Aromatic Milk Pudding with Cranberries)
Make your individual cranberry sauce to high these Palestinian puddings flavored with mastic gum that is harking back to licorice or pine.
Bimuelos with Cranberry Curd and Cardamom Honey
Cookbook creator Adeena Sussman makes use of half a pound of recent or frozen cranberries in a make-ahead curd for these orange-scented, fried balls of dough doused in a cardamom-laced honey.
Brown Sugar-Cranberry Tart
Candy and tart cranberries pop within the creamy custard of this 3-hour pie from chef and creator David Tanis.
Triple-Layer Bitter Cream Chocolate Cake
Beloved bakers Cheryl and Griffith Day high this moist, tender layer cake with cranberries which might be tossed in easy syrup then rolled in sugar an hour forward.
Large White Chocolate, Almond and Cranberry Cookies
Chef Joanne Chang studs these crunchy, nutty cookies with dried cranberries for chewy, fruity taste that enhances the white chocolate.
Lemon-Cranberry Pie Bars
Pastry chef Sarah Jordan swirls cranberry puree into the lemon curd filling for this candy and tangy bar.
Pear-and-Cranberry Slab Pie
F&W’s Justin Chapple opts for a baking sheet for this free-form, fruit-filled, ginger-laced pie that is filled with frozen cranberries.