Raspberry

How do you make lemon bars even better? Turn them pink. Add bright color and tangy flavor with a splash of fresh raspberry purée.

Heating the sugar before beating it into the egg whites creates an extra-glossy, stable meringue.

Sweet peaches and tart raspberries are natural partners in this summery pie, which has the easiest crust—i.e. no rolling required—you’ll ever make.

These pancakes are lighter than those in your standard stack: slender and slightly crisp on the outside, light and lacy with assertive raspberry flavor. The raspberries are blended into the milk before being added to the batter—a solution to having pockmarks of berry flavor only here and there. You'll want a mile-high pile.

Here, the building blocks of Scottish cranachan are brought together in a different guise, layered into an alternately crisp, creamy, and fruity cheesecake. It's not as rustically simple as the dessert that inspired it, but it does, I think, stay true to cranachan's ingredient-centric ethos, with honey, raspberries, whiskey, and oats in perfect balance.

Grab fresh spring berries the minute you see them at the market and fold them into this simple, tender cake you'll want to bake all season long.

This smoothie has everything you need for breakfast: Protein, potassium, Vitamin C, and coffee!

Indulgent raspberry cream cheese makes homemade brownies even better.

Light, pretty, festive, and special, this can pull off the trick of being either the Christmas Yule log (without the chocolate or the sponge) or the perfect pudding for a midsummer lunch.

Though this recipe calls for a raspberry garnish, feel free to swap in caramelized apples or toasted pistachios. When working with phyllo dough, make sure to keep the unused phyllo sheets covered as much as possible, as they tend to dry out quickly.

Top your sundaes with chocolate sauce and macerated raspberries for an easy summer dessert.

A pile of red and blue berries tops off a cloud of white whipped cream in this blueberry-filled bit of glory

Zucchini bread is one of those things that is almost always good but rarely spectacular and a slice can serve as a breakfast, snack or dessert. Sprinkling it with sugar and grilling it so it becomes nicely caramelized moves it firmly in the dessert category (and, along with adding a spoonful of mascarpone, makes it much closer to spectacular). This recipe works with your favorite zucchini bread recipe or try it with this Spiced Zucchini-Walnut Bread .