Hot Dessert Recipes How-Tos
How To: Temper and store chocolate
Jacques Torres explains why it's important to temper chocolate when you plan to use it in molds or candies and demonstrates how it's done.
How To: Fill a jelly roll cake or bûche de Noël
Epicurious Editor-in-Chief Tanya Wenman Steel demonstrates how to fill and roll up a genoise cake to make a jelly roll, a Yule log cake or bûche de Noël.
How To: Make a kid friendly Croquembouche
Learn how to make a holiday Croquembouche with your kids! Epicurious Editor-in-Chief Tanya Wenman Steel and a young friend demonstrate how to make a Christmas treat from doughnut holes.
How To: Make Isaac Mizrahi's mint chocolate chip ice cream
What's Isaac Mizrahi's favorite food in the world? Ice cream. Watch as he makes his favorite mint chocolate chip recipe using fresh mint leaves. You must have an ice cream maker.
How To: Assemble a wedding cake
Learn how to assemble a beautiful three tier cake for weddings or other events.
How To: Crimp edges on your pie crust
These video tips will show you how to crimp your pie crust for an aesthetically pleasing presentation. Use the finger pinch method or a fork.
How To: Make no bake sweet potato pie
Learn how to make this no bake sweet potato pie with Dani Spies. This is a great holiday recipe!
How To: Roll and attach a pastry top crust to an apple pie
Learn how create the top of a deep dish apple pie with a rolled out pastry.
How To: Blind bake a pastry or quiche crust
Learn how to blind bake (baking a pie crust without a filling). Blind baking is very simple - all you need are baking beads or, if you don't have any, dried beans will do.
How To: Deep fry candy bars
Learn how to deep fry all sorts of candy bars. Yummy!
How To: Make Thai pork chops and stir fry pork with Kai
These two Thai pork dishes are quick and easy to make. You will need pork, oyster sauce, sugar, soy sauce, garlic powder, salt, celery, carrots, mushrooms, and fresh garlic. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to prepare pork chops and stir fry pork from Thai chef Kai.
How To: Bake chocolate brownies
Learn how to make chocolate fudge brownies.
How To: Make lyonnaise potatoes
This simple recipe for potatoes with onions and parsley is a quick and easy way of creating an original potato dish. Make lyonnaise potatoes.
How To: Make pie pastry dough
Making a pie pastry dough is a must have for any holiday season. It can be used for a multitude of desserts not limited to pie!
How To: Make an easy apple crumble
Allen Smith demonstrates his easy recipe for apple crumble.
How To: Make sugar cookies in cookie cutter shapes
An easy recipe and a fun cookie to make. Children love cutting and decorating these cookies for all any time during the year. It is especially fun for the holidays with all the different cookie cutters.
How To: Prepare some good ice cream recipes
In this video series, our expert will show you how to make a variety of ice cream recipes. Reminiscent of the ice cream shops of yore, our expert will show you how to make several sweet treats, including an ice cream malt, ice cream soda and ice cream sundaes.
How To: Make beignets (French doughnuts)
In this series of Louisiana cuisine videos, our expert Cajun chef demonstrates how to make your own delicious beignets. He begins by telling you the ingredients and showing you how to mix them.
How To: Make eggless chocolate cake
Many vegetarians and vegans often miss out on holiday cakes because they are made with eggs. Here is a wonderfully simple recipe for an eggless chocolate cake. Good for cholesterol watchers too!
How To: Make pedas
Pedas are very popular Indian sweets (mithai)and are often served during Diwali. Traditionally, it is made with milk that is cooked and cooked and cooked...till it thickens. It has a smooth and silky texture and it just melts in the mouth. Watch and learn how to make this simplified version that is just as tasty.
How To: Make sevia kesari
Sevia kesari, an Indian vermicelli dessert (aka Sukhi Sevia or Eid ki Sevia) is just as delicious as it is easy to make. It is a wonderful twist and healthy alternative to Suji ka Halwa, which uses a lot more ghee. Sevia is a traditional sweet dish prepared in celebration of Eid.
How To: Make kulfi
Hetal and Anuja show you how to make this super simple Indian dessert - Kulfi. A little like ice cream, Kulfi has it's own unique flavor. Try this make ahead recipe the next time you are having a party -- it's a crowd pleaser!
How To: Make coconut burfi
Coconut fan??...here is something for you -- A quick and easy fix for your craving - coconut burfi - an Indian dessert.
How To: Cook with a solar oven
Learn how to cook using solar ovens. See how to cook eggs, peach cobbler cake, rice and dishes the solarcookingnut makes on a typical day.
How To: Make sweet pongal
Chef Sanjay shows us how to make sweet pongal - a sweet rice and pongal dessert used for Indian festivals.
How To: Make pornam burelu
Pornam burelu is an Indian dessert and Chef Sanjay shows you how to make it in this video. It uses sweet dal (puran poli) to start - so if you don't have any, you'll need to make some.
How To: Make fruit custard
Chef Sanjay shows you how to make a really basic fruit custard and gives some good tips on how to keep your custard from getting lumps.
How To: Make Christmas fruit cake
Chef Sanjay shows you how to make a simple Christmas fruit cake.
How To: Make mango mousse
This Indian sweet mango mousse is made soft and fluffy , a sure hit with everyone!
How To: Make rasmalai
Chef Sanjay shows you how to make rasmalai - an Indian dessert made with cheese dumpling in cream syrup.
How To: Make banana dosai
Banana Dosai is an Indian pancake with banana and is another Indian festival food. It can be used as a dessert or an appetizer (we think it sounds perfect for breakfast!) and is actually very healthy.
How To: Make semiya paysam
Semiya paysam is a special occassion dessert made from vermicelli/semiya. Chef Sanjay shows you how to make this Indian dessert. If you've never made Indian sweets before, this is a great basic recipe to start with.
How To: Prepare chicken francaise
In this video series, our expert will show you how to make Chicken Francaise. You will get step-by-step instructions for tenderizing the meat, cutting the chicken and making the batter for the chicken. Learn tips for frying the chicken and creating the sauce from lemon juice, chicken broth, butter and flour.
How To: Make healthy oatmeal bars
Expert, Rachel Dayan, shows you how to make chocolate oatmeal bars. Part 1 of 16 - How to Make healthy oatmeal bars.
How To: Make fudge brownies
Our expert, Lizbeth Muller, shows you everything you need to know to make this mouthwatering dessert.
How To: Make spritz cookies
In this video series, our expert will teach you how to make a delicious spritz cookie recipe. You will learn each easy to follow step for mixing the dry and wet ingredients, adding sugar and butter and coloring the cookie dough. Get tips for using and filling a cookie press, as well as advice on decorating and baking this easy cookie recipe.
How To: Make yule log cookies
In this video series, our expert will take another look at the traditional yule log cake, and make yule log cookies. Learn how to cream the butter, add the sugar, flour and wet ingredients for the Yule Log cookie dough.
How To: Make red velvet cake
Get tips from our expert, Jennifer Cail on mixing in each of the ingredients, baking red velvet cake, and making the frosting for this dessert. Finally, learn how to frost each layer of this red velvet cake with expert tips in this free video recipe.
How To: Make eggnog ice cream
In this video series, our expert will show you how to make eggnog ice cream. This fun variation of a holiday classic drink recipe is a great dessert for any holiday dinner party.
How To: Bake a gingerbread house
In this video series, our expert will show you how to make and decorate a gingerbread house. This fun Christmas or winter time activity allows the whole family to get involved in making dessert. Learn each easy to follow step for rolling out the gingerbread dough, cutting the shapes for a gingerbread house and gingerbread trees, and baking the gingerbread.