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Desserts By Threes

Using only three ingredients, these desserts practically pull themselves together.
  • Image may contain Cutlery Spoon Plant Food Dessert Fruit Blueberry Creme Cream and Yogurt
    Christina Holmes
    5/9

    Blackberry-Vinegar Caramel Sauce

    Whoever said caramel had to be sweet never tried this vinegar-based blackberry caramel. You'll get stuck on this savory ice cream topping.

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  • Image may contain Food Plant Cornbread Bread Custard Confectionery and Sweets
    Photo by Hirsheimer & Hamilton
    6/9

    Instant dessert upgrade: just add sparkling wine. This tart apricot sorbet is all the better for it.

  • Image may contain Plant Confectionery Food Sweets Vegetable Nut and Almond
    Catherine McCord
    7/9

    Chocolate Banana Bites

    We love these nut-and-chocolate banana bites for dessert, but you could really have these any time.

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  • Image may contain Cutlery Spoon Bowl Plant Food Dessert Creme Cream Vase Pottery and Jar
    Photo by Romulo Yanes
    8/9

    Kiwi Sorbet

    It takes two things to make a sorbet rule: really good fruit and sugar. The freezer will do the rest of the work.

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  • Image may contain Food Dessert Bread and Burger
    Photo by Roland Bello
    9/9

    Bread. Chocolate. Bread. Dessert is better when it's also a sandwich.

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