When I finished high school, I worked hard for 6 months, did a quick English teaching course, packed my bags, sold my car and set off to live in Europe for a year. I had no idea what I was going to…
Condensed milk and retro puddings are a match made in heaven - add this delight to your dessert recipe repertoire.
Mango float could be the easiest, delicious no-bake dessert you could ever make. It only needs 4 ingredients too! Try it now!
What is a kolache? The Lone Star State loves this pillowy, fruit-filled treat brought over to rural Texas by Czech settlers during the mid-to-late 1800s. Here's where to get your fix.
We've taken two Aussie cult favourites - Caramilk chocolate and lamingtons - and transformed into the ultimate sweet treat.
Galaktoboureko is a Classic Greek pie that is made with a semolina custard and wrapped in flaky, buttery, crisp phyllo. These rolls are the individual version and might be better than the original dessert. They are baked to a golden perfection and then drenched in an aromatic syrup.
Recipe for traditional Greek Sweet Semolina pie known as "bougatsa" - delicious baked phyllo filled with vanilla semolina custard.
Taiwanese castella cake has a signature fluffy, bouncy texture, and the most delicate sweetness. This popular Taiwanese dessert, is made with simple ingredients and yields the most satisfying bite you’ve ever tasted.
Your guests will be in awe after tasting these nut and honey pastry rolls coming from Greece. Made with Kataifi dough, they are sweet, rich, and beautiful!
This decadent cookie starts with a cream cheese-based dough and whatever filling you can dream up. Honey-walnut or chocolate are good places to start!
I found this old-fashioned Zserbo Szelet Recipe in one of the vintage recipe binders I own. This traditional Hungarian holiday dessert recipe is also known as Gerbeaud cake.
This kolache recipe was given to me by my mother-in-law, who received it from her mother! It was a standard treat in their family, made nearly every week. Now I make these kolaches for my own family for special occasions. —Maxine Hron, Quincy, Illinois
All the sweet, nutty flavour of the classic Turkish dessert (plus lashings of custard), with no fiddly filo in sight!
The classic alfajor consists of two buttery, melt-in-the-mouth cookies filled with creamy, sweet pastry filling and topped with sprinkled powdered sugar.
Hotteok (호떡), a popular street food snack in Korea, consists of fried dough filled with brown sugar, cinnamon, and nuts. I like to use pecans instead of walnuts or peanuts in my Korean pancake recipe. Enjoy these sweet treats while they are hot and fresh!
Looking for a traditional Greek Ravani recipe? This locally sourced recipe with step by step instructions will help you make the most syrupy, fluffy, tasty ravani cake!
This recipe for Bavarian cream and berries is perfect for a party. It's simple to make, but sure to impress your guests. Plus it can be whipped up in advance.
A tender and soft biscuit Joconde sponge. Use it for any kinds of cakes and desserts, such as opera cake and mousse cake.
Adapted from The New York Times Notes: Plan ahead! This takes time to make and bake and chill — it must chill for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight, before serving. You'll need a 10-inch springform pan for this recipe. Ricotta: You must use whole milk ricotta here. Low-fat will leave the cheesecake with a gritty texture. Calabro brand, sold at Whole Foods, is nice. If you are serving this the same day you are making it, bake it first thing in the morning. As noted above, this can be made a day in advance. Bring to room temperature briefly before serving. Fresh ricotta versus not: Fresh is best. My mother always uses fresh, but keep in mind you will need three pounds, which can get pricey. Most recently I made two using standard grocery store ricotta, and I still thought it was completely delicious, but several commenters have not had success with non-fresh ricotta, so I am advising to use fresh ricotta only here. Cooking times will vary dramatically depending on your oven, the pan you are using for the water bath and what type of fresh ricotta you are using. Start checking at 1 hour and 15 minutes. The cookie crust is more of a cookie dusting than a crust — it melts into the cheesecake making it almost undetectable. It's a subtle touch, but still really nice. Use whatever cookie you like, but I highly recommend the Jules Destrooper butter waffles if you can find them. This is what my mother always uses and what I use now, too. They are made of all good things — flour, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, baking soda — and they are delicious to boot. You also could skip the cookie coating all together for simplicity. If you have a Thermapen (highly recommend!), use it to test the temp of the cheesecake, and remove it when it reads 150-155ºF. I have never done this, but the next time I make this, I'm tempted to skip the water bath, and bake the cake on a rimmed sheet pan at 350ºF for about an hour — I've seen a number of recipes that skip the water bath without issue.
Andrea Slonecker demonstrates how to make kolaches with a cream cheese filling and various jams.
With choc ripple biscuit bases, these cheat's custard tarts have a Caramilk twist no-one will be able to resist.
Hungarian pancakes are thin crepes, rolled up and sprinkled with powdered sugar. It is a really easy to make recipe, a quick dessert which is done in 30 minutes and tastes great.
A layer of currants squashed between two layers of dough, then baked, Garibaldi biscuits are buttery, fruity and easy to make. Also known as flies graveyard or squashed fly biscuits, these cookies have a crispy exterior and soft centre and are perfect with a cuppa.
Delicious to eat and fun to make, rugelach are miniature crescent-rolled pastries with a sweet filling.
Tiramisu Fudge Bars with creamy cashew vegan mascarpone layered with cocoa coffee cream. These freezer fudge bars are easy and dreamy. Vegan Gluten-free Soy-free Recipe. 9 by 5 loaf pan
The Perfect French toast Recipe! With just 6 ingredients, It's one of the simplest and tastiest breakfast or brunch recipes to make any day!
Decadent pistachio cream turns tiramisu into green gold in this easy Italian dessert recipe.
This impressive coffee cake is swirled with a luscious almond filling. To balance the sweetness, it has a hint of nuttiness that's excellent with coffee or a cup of hot cocoa. This is the sort of treat you might have in Sweden, where the tradition of fika (taking some time to slow down, reconnect, and enjoy a sweet baked good and a warm beverage) is a daily ritual.
A thick and creamy milk pie made with semolina. Served with honey and cinnamon for a filling and delicious sweet treat!
Galaktoboureko is a delicious Greek dessert with phyllo dough, a creamy custard filling, and an unbelievable syrup!
Chocolate Nutella rolls use the tasty combination of cocoa powder and nutella to effortlessly turn soft, fluffy Chinese milk bread into a gooey, molten, chocolate-y sweet treat topped with shaved toasted almonds.
Delicious jelly sweets to curb all of your sweet cravings!
Hungarian cottage cheese donuts are very easy to make, ideal for beginners. A quick dessert recipe, it takes only 15 minutes to prepare. Hungarian cottage cheese is a fresh, soft curd cheese, similar to farmer’s cheese or quark, dry and not liquidy at all. It is most often made with cow milk. If you use ricotta cheese, then add only 2 eggs. These delicious doughnuts are made without yeast, so there is no need for leavening – you can taste them in minutes! They are lightly sweet, bite-sized donuts, finished with a dusting of powdered sugar.
Ensaymada are Filipino style brioche topped with softened butter, sugar and grated cheese.
Lemon self-saucing pudding, also known as lemon surprise pudding, is easy to whip up and can be ready in an hour. Make one simple mixture and as it cooks it separates into a light sponge on top and zesty lemon curd beneath
Soaked in syrup, full of Christmas flavors and spices, amazingly soft and crumbly. These Greek Honey Cookies are truly the best!
This is the recipe for the softest, fluffy and most delicate mamon. Buttery with a hint of cheese, these moist little cakes will truly delight you.
Portokalopita is an amazingly refreshing and truly delicious Greek cake. Made with phyllo, yogurt, and soaked in syrup.
Biscoff Tiramisu is a warm-spiced twist on a classic Italian tiramisu recipe, layered with coffee-soaked Biscoff cookies and rich cookie-butter flavored mascarpone cream.
Galaktoboureko is a Classic Greek pie that is made with a semolina custard and wrapped in flaky, buttery, crisp phyllo. These rolls are the individual version and might be better than the original dessert. They are baked to a golden perfection and then drenched in an aromatic syrup.
Strawberry Lamingtons - a.k.a. Strawberry Coconut Cake Squares - moist cubes of homemade vanilla cake get soaked in a combination of strawberry jello and jam and then rolled in coconut. An easy, pretty and very tasty treat that kids will love.
This thick & delish pastry cream can be used to fill cakes, layered desserts, and tarts. Or simply served on its own with your favorite topping.
Mahalabia recipe, quick and easy, chilled, make ahead Middle Eastern milk pudding, flavoured with rose water or orange blossom water. Updated March 2023.
