Creamy Treats: 8 White Chocolate Recipes

Choose your favorite mix of dried fruit and nuts — raisins, cherries, cranberries, chopped apricots, almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, and macadamia nuts are all good choices — to make these white chocolate cluster candies.

Recipe: White-Chocolate Clusters with Fruit and Nuts

Gingerbread spices and rich white chocolate chunks give these blondies holiday appeal.

Recipe: White Chocolate-Gingerbread Blondies

Instead of old-fashioned oatmeal raisin, swap in apricots and white chocolate. The white chocolate's sweetness tempers the tang of the fruit, creating a balanced batch that will appeal to kids and adults alike.

Recipe: Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Apricots and White Chocolate

Prepare a batch of these white chocolate-studded icebox cookies whenever you have the time, and slice and bake when a cookie craving strikes.

Recipe: White Chocolate, Hazelnut, and Cherry Triangles

A glass of milk is the ideal accompaniment to these drop cookies. Besides white chocolate, the cookies are also chockablock with oats, coconut, golden raisins, and walnuts.

Recipe: White Chocolate-Chunk Cookies

Whipped egg whites help create a light and fluffy white chocolate buttercream frosting that's suitable for simple cakes as well as intricately decorated desserts.

Recipe: White-Chocolate Buttercream

Exceptionally creamy yet surprisingly light and airy, this amaretto-spiked white-chocolate dessert is an ideal finale for a romantic dinner for two.

Recipe: White-Chocolate Semifreddo

Are you looking for a dazzling treat that's a snap to make? This familiar favorite is perfect: Just melt, stir and swirl. The salted peanuts provide a simple counterbalance to the sweetness of eddied white and dark chocolates.

Recipe: Winter Bark

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