Desserts

Baked Bacon Apple with French Toast Fingers and Gingerbread Sauce

Heather Sharpe serves an enormously decadent and flavorful plate.

Roasted Strawberries and Rhubarb with Cardamom Whipped Cream

Khalilah Ramdene with a salivating new take on a classic flavor pairing.

Homemade Cajeta – Mexican Goat’s Milk Caramel Sauce

Cajeta is Mexican caramel, made with slowly-cooked sweetened goats milk and infused with spices and flavorings.

Pear Crumble with Caramel Sauce

Fruit crumble is always a great dessert choice. In this one pears are combined with lovely caramel topping.

Dining Down Under: Picking Apples for a Free-form Apple Tart

Christina Soong-Kroeger shares her love of food with her children and her recipe for a free-form apple tart.

Summer Berry No Bake Tart

This Tart needs time to ‘cook’ in the fridge, so start it the night before or in the morning for dinner.

Mango and Yogurt Ice Pops

Healthier than their ice cream counterparts these ice pops are low in fat and have no added sugar.

Honey Lavender Popsicles

A lighter ice cream in popsicle form where the sugar and cream is replaced with honey and a bit of condensed milk.

Walnut and Coconut Cake with Tamarind Syrup
Walnut Cake, Tamarind Sauce and Thank Yous All Around

Amrita Chowdhury performs her Food-Oscar thank you speech. And serves cake. How’s that for a treat!?

Gluten Free Chocolate Crackers with Peanut Butter Filling

Warning: These chocolate crackers are quick to make and very, very addictive. Consume at own risk.

Pomegranate-Lemon-Mascarpone Tart with a Coconut-Macadamia Nut Crust

An elegant 11-inch tart with flavors of coconut and macadamia nuts, filled with a lemon mascarpone cream and a layer of pomegranate jelly.

German Plum Kuchen

Kuchen is German for “cake”, and this is one of the easiest, lightest and tastiest cakes ever.

Black Sesame Macarons

Tamara Novacoviç introducing black sesame macarons with dark chocolate ganache. A perfect pairing.

Decadent Mocha Macarons

Try these beautifully flavored and decadent mocha macarons from Tamara Novacoviç.

Mexico On My Plate: Sweet Tortilla Chips and Cinco De Mayo

Nancy Lopez-McHugh with a delicious suggestion for a Cinco de Mayo snack recipe.

Melomakarona: A Traditional Greek Cookie with a Non-Traditional Pairing

A crumbly and spicy, honey-soaked biscuit finds satisfaction with a home-brewed Oatmeal ESB.

Cute Easter Cupcakes

These Easter cupcakes are fresh, bursting with citrus flavor and filled with lemon curd – perfect for warm days ahead.

British Easter Trifle Recipe
A Bite of Britain: Easy Easter Trifle

Brimming with sponge, jam, sherry, custard, and cream, this festive dessert brings a sweet taste of British tradition for Easter.

Tres Leches Cake – Latin American Party Cake

In Mexico, as in other Latin American countries, Tres Leches is the typical party cake.

Making your Own Fondant

There’s no reason to buy fondant when you’re just a few ingredients and steps away from cheaper home made version of high quality.

California Love – Plantains Foster

Bananas Foster originates in New Orleans with the basic ingredients of brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, dark rum and banana liqueur.

Cooking the Magazines: Peanut Butter and Chocolate Dipped Pretzels

Honey wheat pretzels dipped in a chocolate peanut butter mixture make for an easy, no bake treat.

Darjeeling and Ginger Infused Crème Caramel

A luscious crème caramel infused with Darjeeling tea and ginger. Perfect for any tea lover.

Mediterranean Style Granola Yogurt Parfait

Mediterranean flavours for sumptuous layers of goodness in a granola yogurt parfait.

Dining Down Under: Mini Berry Puddings for Busy People

These mini merry puddings are perfect for those who really don’t have time to cook.

Frangipane Plum Tart

This delicious tart has a buttery crust filled with almond frangipane filling studded with plums.

Cherry Cake
Balkan Cherry Cake Recipe

This lovely Balkan Cherry Cake from Milica Cvetkovic can be served hot – straight from the oven.

Yogurt Cream Cake

Tamara Novacoviç serves a perfectly refreshing yogurt cream cake.

Indian Ricotta Rasmalai

Ricotta Rasmalai is one of Eastern India’s most popular desserts.

Candied Clementine Peel Dessert

This candied clementine peel dessert is one of many candied orange and citrus peel recipes that Sawsan Abu Farha makes in the winter.

Um Ali, Egyptian Bread Pudding

Um Ali is a dessert that combines the creaminess of bread pudding and cinnamon nut stuffing of baklava.

Poached Pears in Red Wine

A simple and elegant dessert, poached pears in red wine is a classic crowd pleaser. Here’s our favorite recipe.

Almond Poppy Seed Cupcakes
Almond Poppy Seed Cupcakes

Kelsey Hilts celebrates her blog’s two year birthday with some lovely cupcakes.

Cooking Within a Community: Lemon Curd

Pour in a tart shell and top with ice cream, add to a trifle dish with berries and amaretto cookies, or serve firm with gingersnaps- the possibilities are endless.

Rainbow Cake with Natural Dyes
Rainbow Cake with Natural Dyes

Appreciate the natural beauty of colorful fruits and vegetables by making this Rainbow Cake with natural dyes.

Wine Poached Pear with Chocolate and Mint sauce

These lovely poached pears can easily be prepared in advance, and then reheated or served cold.

Greek Golden Loukoumades

Pam Kanavos says opa! and serves up a batch of golden Greek Loukoumades.

Kesari – Indian Semolina Fudge

A traditional Indian sweet prepared with Semolina flour and roasted Cashews, Kesari is a kind of fudge which is popular in many festivals and functions across India.

Guinness and Molasses Cake

Bryan Picard finally knows what his favorite dessert is.

Dining Down Under: Floating Islands

Quenelles of poached meringue dusted with praline float dreamily on a vanilla custard. Love at first bite.

The Ultimate PBJ – Taking it to Another Level

Sonia Mangla’s five year old son designs a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from heaven.

A Bite of Britain: Pancake Day

Go British this Fat Tuesday. It’s the perfect day to practice some serious pancake flipping.

Sweetened Rice Noodles

If you are looking for a gluten free,lactose free, vegan sweet – this is a great option.

Ispahan Pudding Cake

A combination of lychee, rose, and raspberry in a light, fluffy pudding cake.

A Bite of Britain: The Poor Author’s Pudding

While Eliza Acton only enjoyed modest success as a poet, her food writing lives on.

Spelt Pancakes for Breakfast

These pancakes are fluffy and the spelt gives hints of sweetness to each bite.

How to Make the Perfect Cream Puffs

Cream puffs are one of the loveliest and most popular desserts in Croatia. Learn how to make them.

Mixed Berry Jam – Enjoy it Fresh or Preserve it

Making jam is very easy but preserving jam requires a litte attention to detail.

Pasta Frolla and Tart au Citron

Pasta frolla is fast, simple and quick making it a great choice for dessert pastry bases.

Black Rice Pudding

A thai-inspired treat made from whole grain black rice and coconut milk.

Steamed Pandan Cakes

Also known as “screwpine,” Pandan is most often used to flavor rice dishes and puddings, but it is also used as a delicate flavoring for pastries.

Tuscan Zabaione

This old fashioned Italian dessert – a more adult version of innocent custard – should be on every cook’s repertoire.

Weekend Breakfast – Dutch Babies

The recipe for these puffed pancakes is alarmingly simple, so don’t be surprised if they become a staple in your breakfast repertoire.

Vermicelli Pudding

Vermicelli is traditionally a type of Italian Pasta that look like small, thin worms.

Updating an Old Egyptian Favorite: Lemon-Mastic Mehalabia Brûlée

A slightly updated version of the traditional Egyptian mastic mehalabia.

Dining Down Under: Mini Trifles and Robert Frost

Christina Soong-Kroeger starts the year with a delicious dessert and some great poetry.

Homemade Ice Cream without an Ice Cream Maker

Homemade ice cream without an icecream maker – not as difficult as you might think.

Puri Aamras – Puffed Fried Bread with Sweet Mango Sauce

Summer in India is never complete without the preparation of this gorgeous and tasty mango delicacy.

Panforte – a Spicy Slice of Siena

Siena’s rustic, medieval flavoured flat cake, panforte, is dense with candied fruit, spices and nuts. The perfect rich winter treat.

Toffee Sticky Pudding from a Vermont Kitchen

Toffee Sticky Pudding, also known as Sticky Toffee Pudding, is a steamed or baked dessert consisting of a moist sponge cake made with dates, topped with a warm toffee sauce and finished with a cloud of whipped cream.