Hot Dessert Recipes How-Tos
How To: Make a light and moist lemon pound cake
Start with a basic pound cake recipe, and then add some delicious lemon flavor on top. For this recipe, you will need: zest of 2 lemons, 1 cup cake flour, 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon iodized salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 1/2 sticks salted butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 2 tablespoons canola oil, 8 eggs, 3 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 2 tablespoons buttermilk and 1 cup sour cream. Make a light and moist lemon pound cake.
How To: Make a delicious Latin American tres leches cake
This is a delicious, moist cake sure to be a hit. For this cake, you will need: yellow cake (use a mix or make your own), 12 ounces evaporated milk, 12 ounces condensed milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 pint whipping cream, 1 tablespoon sugar and some cinnamon. Make a delicious Latin American tres leches cake.
How To: Make a delicious Irish Creme sabayon for dessert
An Irish twist on a classic French dessert! For this recipe, you will need: 6 large egg yolks, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup water, 1/3 cup Irish creme liqueur, 1 ounce bittersweet chocolate, 2 ounces milk chocolate, 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream, pinch of salt and mint to garnish. Make a delicious Irish Creme sabayon for dessert.
How To: Make a delicious chocolate bark with toasted almonds
This is a low ingredient recipe - all you need is about 2 pounds of high quality chocolate and 6-8 cups of sliced and toasted almonds. The trick about making this dessert, though, is all in the technique and getting the almonds into the chocolate. Make a delicious chocolate bark with toasted almonds.
How To: Bake a delicious blueberry mochi cake with coconut tapioca
A fruity, rich dessert! This recipe calls for: 1 can coconut milk, 27 ounces water, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 7 ounces large tapioca balls, 1/4 cup lemon juice, 7 ounces mlik, 1/2 vanilla bean, 3 ounces melted butter, 3/4 cup sugar, 4 ounces rice flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon apple brandy and a handful of blueberries. Bake a delicious blueberry mochi cake with coconut tapioca.
How To: Make a delicious steamed lemon pudding
This is a delicious dessert, good for any season. To make this, you will need: zest and juice from 3 lemons, 2 egg yolks, 5 egg whites, 4 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, butter and sugar, whipped cream, mint leaves and fresh fruit to garnish. Make a delicious steamed lemon pudding.
How To: Bake delicious gingerbread men cookies
A great holiday treat! For the cookies, you will need: 2 cups all purpose flour, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/4 cup hot water, 1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup melted butter and 1 egg. Bake delicious gingerbread men cookies.
How To: Make home made jelly donuts at home
Delicious jelly donuts, made at home! For this recipe, you will need: 4 1/2 cups white flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 envelope of dry active yeast, 1 cup milk (room temperature), 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 large eggs, 1 tablespoons unsalted butter, 1/2 cup of your favorite jelly and vegetable oil for frying. Make home made jelly donuts at home.
How To: Make delicious soft, sugar coated strawberry jelly candies
This video shows you the French technique of Pate de Fruit to make candies so delicious, they look like little gems. For this recipe, you will need: 2 1/2 cups pureed strawberry, strained, 1/2 ounce pectin, 2 3/4 cups granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons corn syrup, 1/8 teapson cream of tartar, water, nonstick cooking spray and one cup of sugar for the coating. Make delicious soft, sugar coated strawberry jelly candies.
How To: Make raspberry filled, nut free Linzer cookies
A delicious dessert for your Valentine's Day dinner! For this recipe, you will need: 3 sticks of butter, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 large egg, 3 1/2 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 cup thick raspberry preserved, confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar), parchment paper, a stand mixer, a sheet pan, plastic wrap, a round cookie cutter and a heart shaped cookie cutter. Make raspberry filled, nut free Linzer cookies.
How To: Make a delicious chocolate lava cake with strawberries
We believe that any time is a good time for chocolate lava cake, but Valentine's Day may just be the one time of year when the chocolate dessert is necessary for survival (from a foodie standpoint, of course). After all, what would Valentine's Day be without boxes of chocolates and chocolate desserts that make us regret wearing that corseted cocktail dress to dinner?
How To: Make a scrumptous, flaky chocolate lava cake
Chocolate lava cake, known as petit gateau or moelleux au chocolat in France, is quite simply a foodie's dream dessert. Richy, flaky layers of velvety chocolate cake package a scintillating, creamy surprise in the center: A "lava" stream of melted chocolate filling.
How To: Prepare a delicious chocolate lava cake with brownie mix
Whether you're ready for it or not, Valentine's Day is only a week away. Which means it's prime time to start thinking about gifts (sorry guys, $5 chocolates from the gas station won't do) and Valentine's Day dinner.
How To: Whip up a delicious molten chocolate lava cake
What's the only thing better than chocolate? More chocolate, of course! Satisfy your chocolate tooth (we're sure there's such a thing, especially around that time of month) by baking this oh-so-delicious molten chocolate lava cake.
How To: Bake homemade chocolate chip muffins from scratch
Anytime you hit the grocery store you can find an entire aisle dedicated to quick fixes, meals-on-the-go, and pre-mixed cake batter. While these options are great if you're looking to add polysorbate 60 and red 5 to your diet, if you're looking for a more natural foodstuff then you should make it at home.
How To: Make cookies using Cap'n crunch cereal
A variation on the Rice Krispie treat, make some cookies using Cap'n Crunch cereal! Start with a box of powdered Cap'n Crunch and bread flour, and then add baking powder, baking soda, butter, white sugar, brown sugar and some eggs.
How To: Make traditional shortbread cookies for decorating
A shortbread cookie is made from sugar, butter, salt and flour. Because the dough is so simple, you can use cookie cutters to cut them into fun shapes and then decorate. A great recipe to bring to any party or potluck. Make traditional shortbread cookies for decorating.
How To: Make the perfect sweet souffle at home
The souffle can be a finicky dish, prone to collapse. But if it can survive the baking, it'll be a delicious dessert, perfect at the end of any meal. You will need butter, flour, sugar, milk, eggs, orange zest and Grand Marnier. Make the perfect sweet souffle at home.
How To: Make tea infused chocolate truffles
This video comes straight from the Laboratory for Chocolate Science at MIT. Truffles are delicious, versatile candies that can be flavored in a variety of ways. This recipe shows you how to take tea extract and make tea infused chocolate truffles. Make tea infused chocolate truffles.
How To: Make a punk rock apple pie from scratch
What makes this apple pie punk rock? It's probably the addition of pumpkin pie spice to the apples. In addition to the apples, you will also need: cinnamon, cloves and lemon juice for the filling. The crust recipe calls for flour, butter, baking powder and water - or you can buy premade if you want.
How To: Make no bake honey nut clusters as a delicious and healthy dessert
These are so good - they are a delicious snack, but you can serve them as a dessert as well. You will need: honey, peanut butter (crunchy or creamy as you wish), graham cracker crumbs, milk (dry or wet) and shredded coconut.
How To: Make your own pie and pastry crust
This is a very basic pastry crust recipe - all it calls for is flour, butter and a little bit of salt. Use this for savory pastries, sweet dessert pies or any other recipe that calls for a flaky, buttery crust.
How To: Make your own fresh whipped cream at home
Premade whipped creams have too many additives that ruin the flavor and are certainly worse for you than regular whipped cream. This video shows you how to make your own whipped cream using just heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla extract.
How To: Make delicious s'mores while camping
S'mores are definitely traditional camping food. You will need: a camp fire, large marshmallows, toasting sticks, graham crackers and chocolate bars. Two marshmallow toasting techniques are shown - the gentle, all-over toast and the marshmallow flambe style. Then sandwich between two graham crackers with choclate, and enjoy!
How To: Make a pan of delicious brownies from scratch
Don't resort to a mix! Brownies are so much better when they are made from scratch. This video shows you how to make delicious, chocolately brownies using: butter, baking chocolate, eggs, white sugar, vanilla extract, salt, baking powder and flour.
How To: Make a double lattice pie crust for fruit pies
A lattice pie crust is a lovely way to top a fruit pie. This technique will work with almost any sweet pie. Lay strips of crust on top of the filling in a lattice pattern, and June the Homemaker shows you how!
How To: Make a pumpkin pie using real pumpkin
Suspicious of the pumpkin pie filling you can find in the store? Just feeling ambitious and want to try to make your own filling? Here's how you can bake a traditional pumpkin pie using real pumpkins. Make sure you get the right kind of pumpkins!
How To: Bake stuffed cupcakes as a delicious potluck dessert
This dessert looks complicated and difficult, but it's really not. It's a great recipe to make when you need to bring a dessert to a potluck. Bake a batch of delicious cupcakes that have been stuffed with other delicious foods.
How To: Make simple red velvet whoopie pies for Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is only two weeks away - are you prepared with ample sweets for your sweet? Make sure that dessert is taken care of on Cupid's lovey dovey holiday by baking these easy as cake whoopie pies.
How To: Make Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Can you handle it? I'm not entirely sure I can, but my taste buds are definitely curious. Soft, doughy chocolate chip cookies stuffed with Nabisco's sugary sweet Oreos. This joins the ranks with: deep-fried trick-or-treat candy, deep-fried butter, deep-fried cheesecake... you get the idea.
How To: Make a delicious homemade chocolate bark recipe for Valentine's Day
Chocolate bark is an excellent gift or dessert for Valentine's Day. Crunchy, rich, and sweet, it's an aphrodesiac that'll get your taste buds off. But don't take the easy way out and just purchase some bark at the store.
How To: Make a Moroccan pumpkin pie with nutmeg and cloves
You've probably had pumpkin pie before, but you've never had pumpkin pie like this. Made from your traditional pumpkin pie ingredients (flour, butter, brown sugar), this pumpkin pie gets its Moroccan twist from copious amounts of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Deelish.
How To: Clone an Oreo Cookie at Home
Todd Wilbur of Top Secret Recipes is at it again. In this installment, Todd shows us how to make an Oreo cookie from scratch. For all of the delicious details, including a complete recipe, watch this free video cooking lesson.
How To: Make a light and fluffy Valentine's Day dark chocolate mousse
Trust us when we say that no woman out there can resist the temptations of a chocolate dessert. Whether it's white chocolate drizzled on top of strawberries or chocolate lava cake, there's something about chocolate that draws us in time after time.
How To: Bake a delicious and fresh blueberry pie
Start with fresh blueberries and a pie crust (premade is fine, though you can certainly make your own). Then add some tapioca, sugar and a little bit of orange juice. Fill your pie, cover with a crust, bake and then it's ready to serve!
How To: Make a delicious caramel flan with fresh mango topping
Flan is a popular Hispanic dessert - custard topped with a sweet thin caramel sauce. This video shows you a delicious variation on traditional caramel flan by adding a fresh mango topping. A perfect dessert for hot weather or beach entertaining.
How To: Make your own French crullers at home
Do you remember the first time you tried a French cruller, or a French donut? We can bet it certainly wasn't the last time you had one of those melt-in-your-mouth sugar and cake bombs. Made with crunchy and flaky dough and topped with a glazed shell, crullers are delicious alternatives to your normal breakfast donuts.
How To: Make your own apple cinnamon cider donuts at home
During the winter, cold, blizzard-y conditions outside make for quite a freezing soul. Warm yourself up while taking your taste buds for a flavor trip by baking these simple and delicious apple cinnamon cider donuts.
How To: Make a yummy no bake dessert pizza with cream cheese and fruit
A pizza that's a dessert? Pepperoni and cheese don't exactly sound like after dinner treats to us, but this dessert pizza, made from cookie dough crust, is certainly a handsome treat any time of year.
HowTo: Make Dragon's Beard (AKA International Cotton Candy)
Known as Dragon's Beard, Pashmak, or Pishmaniye, hand pulled cotton candy is more than just a carny treat- it's a worldwide delicacy. The French Culinary Institute's Cooking Issues demonstrates how to make a delicious, exotic rendition of the classic American cotton candy without a machine. All it takes is a little food science and worldly know how.