Hot Dessert Recipes How-Tos

How To: Make a popcorn cake

This dessert recipe for popcorn cake shown in this how-to video is simple enough for kids to make. You will need half a cup of un-popped popcorn, a dash of salt, four cups marshmallows, half a cup of margarine, and two thirds cup of candy-coated chocolates. Popcorn cakes are delicious and perfect for a school snack or lunchtime dessert. Join Chef Ralph Pallarino as he shows you how to make the tasty treat in this video cooking tutorial. Make a popcorn cake.

How To: Prepare an easy chocolate mousse recipe with rum

This cooking how to video shows you how to prepare and easy to make a rum chocolate mousse. Making rum chocolate mousse may sound like an extravagant thing to make, but it ins't. The thing that makes this mousse a luxury dessert is the quality of the chocolate used. To get optimal mousse results, try buying a high grade chocolate for this recipe.

How To: Bake a quick apple tart dessert

In this cooking how-to video Will and Rachel show you how to make an amazing apple tart in the easiest way possible. Impress your friends and family with your new cooking prowess with this simple apple dessert recipe. The ingredients you will need to make the apple tart are: skinned apples, lemon juice, sugar, and butter.

How To: Make tender flaky homemade scones

This cooking how-to video demonstrates a technique for light and flaky scones with food writer, Julie O'Hara. Scones are type of quick bread. Watch this video cooking lesson to learn the best method for preparing this quick bread recipe for delicious tender flaky scones. Serve your warm scones with tea.

How To: Cook matcha French toast

You've heard of matchs green tea making a great beverage, but how about it making a delicious breakfast item. In this cooking how to video our Japanese host demonstrates how to prepare and cook matcha French toast. You can even brew a cup of match teach to go with your French toast.

How To: Make no-bake blueberry ricotta cheesecake bars

Do you want a great dessert that doesn't require much baking time? In this cooking how to video tutorial Mark Bittman, from the New York Times, makes no-bake blueberry cheesecake bars. Make your homemade graham cracker crust and fill with ricotta cheese filling. The ingredients you need for this recipe include: ricotta cheese, cream cheese, graham crackers, lemon zest, honey and blueberries.

How To: Bake a bourbon apple cake with the NY Times

Here is a streamline and completely grownup dessert recipe. In this cooking how to video tutorial Mark Bittman, from the New York Times, lets a sweet, buttery apple cake have a drink. Watch as he prepares a bourbon apple cake. Use quartered apples, sugar, butter, eggs, flour, salt and baking powder. Don't forget to soak it in the bourbon sauce.

How To: Clone a Snickers Candy Bar at Home

Famous food cloner Todd Wilbur wraps his head with tape and attempts to duplicate the world's most popular candy bar. You will need water, vanilla extract, peanut butter, powdered sugar, chocolate chips, caramel, and peanuts. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a Snickers bar at home.

How To: How to make coke cake

Want to make a cake but all you have is cake mix and cola? No problem! You can bake a cake with a can of coke. Follow the same procedure you would with standard ingredients. However, after baking let the cake cool for a full hour as the sugar tends to stick to the pan. This coke cake stays moist no matter now long it sits on the counter. Plus, it's caffeinated.

How To: Bake brownies from a mix

Kay schools us on how to cook brownies from a mix. Watch this instructional cooking video to bake brownies using a a box of brownie mix, vegetable oil, eggs and water. This process looks simple, but if you've never baked anything before, these guidelines are helpful and precise.