Sweeten Life With 10 Honey-Flavored Dessert Recipes

The floral notes of honey add a flavor bump to regular old vanilla in this creamy custard recipe.

This cake looks pretty simple, but it’s hiding a secret within. Including a mildly spiced batter and honey adds flavor and a moist texture.

Honey is the base of the caramel topping on these nutty, hearty shortbread bars. They’re ooey-gooey and scrumptious.

These crispy, thin cookies are a delicate accompaniment to coffee or a fun addition to a dessert board. Honey makes the cookie extra crispy.

These chewy cookies may look like burger buns, but they are soft (thanks to the honey) with a nutty edge (thanks to the sesame seeds). The baker was inspired by Trader Joe’s honey-roasted sesame almonds.

Also known as Medovik, you should use quality honey to really make the floral flavor come through in the finished cake. A cream filling is nested in between the layers and the whole cake is garnished with caramel flames, for extra flair.

Obviously, the Nordicware honeycomb pan is what makes this cake so eye-catching, but it's also a deliciously moist cake made with plenty of honey and mead, which is a wine made from honey.

Not only is the creamy cheesecake flavored with honey, but a simple topping of honey, sour cream and flaky salt gilds the lily.

A pastry-textured honey brioche cake is filled with luscious pastry cream and then topped with almond honey in this decadent coffee cake.