Hot Dessert Recipes How-Tos
How To: Make easy crepes from scratch with Jenny Jones
In this clip, learn how to make homemade easy crepes at home. Jenny Jones will show you exactly how to make these delicious flatbreads that can be eaten with anything from chocolate and fruit to meat and veggies. Jenny will also show you how to alter the ingredients to make them healthier by choosing the right oils and whole wheat flours. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.. what will you put in your crepes? Enjoy!
How To: Keep brown sugar soft in storage with Jenny Jones
In this clip, learn how to keep your bag of brown sugar soft and usable no matter how long you have it in storage. All you need is a clay disk and a little water and you will never have to worry about rock hard sugar again. Check out this tip from Jenny Jones and bake with that sugar, anytime.
How To: Bake cherry chocolate brownies, very quickly & easily
Sometimes you need a recipe very fast if you are in a pinch. In this tutorial, learn how to make a moist dessert that is somewhere between a cake and brownies. These cherry chocolate squares are absolutely amazing and gooey and take no time at all to whip up!
How To: Make a refreshing and zesty orange cake from scratch
In this clip, learn how to make a perfect citrus cake for summertime. This orange sponge goes great with warm weather cocktails, coffee or even as breakfast. Follow along with this clip and learn how to make this deliciously moist dessert.
How To: Make a frozen lemon soufflé, the perfect summer treat
In this clip, learn how to make an absolutely delicious dessert for summer: frozen lemon souffle. This dessert is refreshing for a hot day by the pool and adds a wonderful zing to the end of any meal. Follow along with this tutorial from the TLC Discovery Channel Cake Crew and get started. You will also get a ton of options for garnishing the souffle like a professional chef. Enjoy!
How To: Make cheap apple walnut sticky buns with Sandra Lee
In this clip, Sandra Lee shows you how to do what she does best and make a delicious recipe for very little money. Sandra shows you how to combine homemade ingredients with store bought items so that it tastes like it was made from scratch. Enjoy these sinfully decadent breakfast pastries for your guests, a bake sale or as a treat for yourself! Enjoy!
How To: Make cream cheese flan with Sandra Lee
In this tutorial, famous chef Sandra Lee shows you how to make fantastic cream cheese flan. This flan tastes like cheesecake but still has that familiar jiggle. For a fantastic Mexican dessert with a twist, give this rich recipe a try. Yum!
How To: Make a crème brûlée dessert
You don't have to make this dessert just for Valentine's Day, but it wouldn't hurt. This video shows you how to make a delicious creme brulee. The best thing about creme brulee is that it's really easy to make! All you need are a few high quality ingredients, and you just need to remember proportions and timing. Once you get the hang of it, it'll be a snap to prepare!
How To: Make healthy strawberry ice cream
Ice cream is one of the most recognizable and tastiest desserts in the history of man. Not only can it combine some of the best fruits out there, but it's an awesome treat to have on a hot summer day. But nowadays, ice cream tends to be a little pricey.
How To: Bake triple chocolate chip cookies without a mixer
In this tutorial, learn how to cook delicious triple chocolate cookies quickly and easily without an electric mixer! Don't think it can be done? Well, follow this clip and you will see exactly just how possible it is. These cookies are incredibly delicious and you will barely get a taste before they are nabbed from the plate. Enjoy these yummy delights that are made with all three: milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate chips in one! Yum!!
How To: Make Mediterranean Greek yogurt with Dede
In this tutorial, learn how to make Mediterranean yogurt - Greek, Turkish, Middle Eastern - whatever you want to call it! This yogurt is fantastic and healthy and really easy to make at home. You can use Greek yogurt for tons of things like breakfasts, desserts as well as an ingredient in other recipes. Follow Dede's lead as she walks you through the process of making this special sauce.
How To: Make riz bi haleed or Mediterranean rice pudding
In this tutorial, learn how to make absolutely delicious rice pudding or riz bi haleed. Dede will walk you through all of the steps you need to know to create this masterpiece. Delight your tastebuds and please your kids with this healthy and creamy dessert.
How To: Make Ma'amoul or Mediterranean stuffed date cookies
A tasty and simple Mediterranean cookie that you can make at home is Ma'amoul. Ma'amoul are sweet and tasty filled cookies and are typically served around the holidays. So, the next time you are in charge of the baking give these delicious treats a try.
How To: Make light chocolate red velvet cupcakes
In this clip, learn how to make simple and perfect red velvet cupcakes. Red velvet is really a white cake with a bit of chocolate flavor that is dyed red. This cake is a Southern specialty and topped with cream cheese icing. Enjoy these cupcakes for any occasion - they look great for patriotic Fourth of July treats, too!
How To: Make bread pudding with nutmeg and creamy custard
In this tutorial, learn how to make super simple, classic bread pudding and spice it up with some nutmeg and creamy custard. This fantastic dessert is popular in England and great for a winter after-dinner treat. This pudding compliments most beverages and feels warm in your belly after a big meal. Enjoy!
How To: Make country style fried apple pie pockets ala mode
These tasty pockets are the perfect alternative to traditional apple pie. These fried pies make tasty, hand held desserts and less mess. Add a dash of cinnamon and a bit of ice cream and soon you will have an amazing, warm and gooey dessert that your entire family will love.
How To: Bake flaky apple berry crisp for dessert
In this tutorial, learn how to make an American classic that everyone will love - apple berry crisp. This warm dessert goes great with whipped cream or ice cream and is a lot easier to make than you might think. Follow along and bake it up from scratch.
How To: Make the world's best chocolate cream pie
In this tutorial, learn how to make the best chocolate cream pie you will ever taste. This pie is made fresh and from scratch and comes out totally fluffy and delicious. Follow along and serve this recipe at your next get together.
How To: Make butterscotch meringue pudding pie with Betty
In this tutorial, learn how to make one of Betty's favorite desserts of all time: Butterscotch Meringue Pie. This recipe is quite simple and absolutely delicious and if you choose not to make the pie crust, it can also serve as a great pudding! Follow along with Betty and serve up this special dessert for your family.
How To: Make a key lime tart with Martha Stewart
When life gives you limes, make a key lime tart! Harnessing the tartness of limes, a key lime pie offers a surprising and delicious contrast to savory summer foods like BBQ ribs and french fries.
How To: Make Alexis' sweet potato pie with Martha Stewart
When Martha Stewart's daughter, Alexis, was a young girl, her favorite pie was the sweet potato pie from a restaurant down the street. But as Alexis got older, she started not enjoying the overly sweet taste. In an effort to still enjoy her favorite pie, she adapted the recipe.
How To: Make gorilla poops or no-bake chocolate cookies
In this tutorial, we are shown how to make no bake cookies. First, place butter into a large saucepan over heat until it melts. Next, add in your sugar and mix in cocoa powder. Mix this until it's all combined, then add in the milk and let the mixture boil. When it has come to a boil, let it boil for a full five minutes and then turn off the stove and add in your vanilla and salt, then add in the oats and stir everything together. Once finished mixing, drop mixture in balls onto wax paper or ...
How To: Make cotton candy with a cottong candy machine
In this tutorial, we learn how to make cotton candy with a cotton candy machine. First, you will want to take your choice of flavored sugar and pour it into the top of the cotton candy machine. Next, you will take your paper cone for cotton candy and place it in your hand. Turn on the machine on and when it's heated up and sprays out sugar strings, move your hand quickly around the machine and gather the cotton candy up with the cone! You can enjoy as soon as it's done and layer different fla...
How To: Make Rock Candy Crystals at Home
In this tutorial, Anne Marie shows us how to make rock candy at home. Rock candy is simply sugar crystals, and you can make this at home in any color or flavor you like easily. The only ingredients you need are sugar and water, though you can add color and flavor as you like. To make these, first add in 1 cup water with 3 cups sugar and a few drops of food coloring into a hot saucepan. Stir constantly while bringing the solution to a boil. Now, grab a container and pour your solution into it,...
How To: Make a delicious table centerpiece made from chocolate
You'd be hard pressed to find someone that doesn't like chocolate, so the next time you throw a party why not make a huge edible centerpiece?
How To: Bake a banana cream pie with Martha Stewart
Whether you're a fan of the creamy, soft texture of bananas or not, banana cream pies generally make everyone a banana fan with its luscious whipped topping and gently souffled center.
How To: Make a baked potato shaped ice cream with Sandra Lee
Don't worry: baked potato ice cream is neither ice cream served in a baked potato (though if you've caught up with blogs like "This is Why You're Fat," you know if it's posssible, it has been done) nor ice cream flavored like a baked potato.
How To: Bake butter cookies with opera singer Renee Fleming
Opera sensation Renee Fleming knows how to work her vocal chords like a well oiled machine, but is she as skilled with maneuvering the oven and baking sheets? Find out in this episode of "The Martha Stewart Show," where Fleming and Martha bake a plate of steaming hot butter cookies for Christmas.
How To: Bake a chocolate loaf cake with Erin McKenna
When BabyCakes NYC founder Erin McKenna realized there was not a single bakery out there that catered to people with food allergies and sensitivities, she decided to make her own.
How To: Bake Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies with BabyCakes
Due to super time saving inventions like the frozen cookie dough rolls at the supermarket, many of us can "bake" fresh chocolate chip cookies within an hour without doing more than slicing the dough into pieces.
How To: Bake a cinnamon swirl cake with Erin McKenna
Vegan baking is complicated, requiring substitutes for starch, flour, and just about everything else, but the result is 100% animal product-free goodness.
How To: Make a gluten-free crumb cake with Cybele Pascal
Eating both vegan and gluten-free doesn't have to mean boring and tasteless. Just as master baker Cybele Pascal, whose discovery that both of her two boys had food allergies back in 2001 sent her on a journey to create a cookbook full of recipes that are allergy-free and gluten-free.
How To: Make gluten-free brownies with Cybele Pascal on ABC7
It sucks to be a food allergy-stricken kid in our mass-produced cookie universe since so many cookies either have gluten or peanuts in them or are manufactored in the same factor as other foods with peanuts or gluten. This means major allergic reactions to these yummy foods.
How To: Make old world homemade strawberry ice cream
Ever yearn for the days of homemade ice cream served up at old world ice cream parlors in a real glass cup with a non-plastic spoon? Don't settle for the mass-produced stuff in the frozen aisle and learn how to make your own ice cream instead.
How To: Make chocolate dipped dried fruit with nuts
Okay, so adding chocolate to fruit sort of takes away all nutritional value, but who cares when your chocolate-dipped mangoes and pears taste this yummy?
How To: Make Christmas pecan dippers with Sandra Lee
It seems that during the holidays baking is a contest to see who makes the best peppermint bark, triple chocolate brownies, sugar cookies, etc. And cookie exchanges only add fuel to the fire.
How To: Make cake lollipops
In this tutorial, learn how to make deliciously spongey cake pops! This video will give you all of the tips and advice you need to roll up a collection of yummy lollipops that are made out of cake. So, instead of a huge sheet cake, why not offer pops at your next party?
How To: Make sprinkled chocolate cupcake pops
Unlike cupcakes, which magically disappear even before they are set down on the table, cake pops can be made in more abundance and are portion sized so everyone can try at least one before seconds are given out.
How To: Make chewy chocolate lava cookies
In this clip, learn how to make ooey gooey chocolate lava cookies with Julie Van Rosendaal and Betty Crocker's kitchen. These treats make the perfect snacks or desserts and you can serve them at any gathering. So, check out this clip and make these yummy treats for your whole family..or just yourself! Mmmm!
How To: Make easy carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
In this clip from Betty Crocker's kitchen, chef Jaden Hair shows you how to make a yummy, classic and very easy carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Carrot cakes are the tastiest way to enjoy your veggies and in this tutorial you will get a step by step so you can serve it to your whole family.