RECIPES: Sweet spot — the best recipes from 2021, part 2

With more than 600 recipes to choose from, compiling our annual list of favorites is no easy task. After making our list (and cutting it twice, no thrice!) we narrowed it down to a baker's dozen, still double what we have space for in our digital replica edition. So, as we have in the past, we broke it up into two installments. Because the recipes were easily split between sweet and savory, that's where we drew the line.

Last week we published the savory recipes. Now it's time for dessert.

We selected these recipes based on how often we made them again after publication and your feedback.

In chronological order:

From 'Bloody marvelous: Blood oranges are a colorful and tasty addition to Valentine's Day recipes' by Kelly Brant, published Feb.