Hot Dessert Recipes How-Tos
How To: Ingredients for Apple Cider Recipe
Expert Brandon Sarkis demonstrates this classic holiday hot drink recipe in easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions. You'll learn what ingredients and supplies you need to make the cider, how to combine the ingredients, including a lemon zest, and how to strain and serve the perfect mug of hot apple cider.
How To: Work with frozen puff pastry
When you need pastry or pie dough in a hurry, frozen puff pastry is the king of supermarket convenience foods. It's incredibly versatile and can be used to make a huge array of hors d'oeuvre, main courses, and desserts. Frequent Fine Cooking contributor and cooking teacher Jessica Bard demonstrates some tricks for getting the best results when working with frozen puff pastry. Work with frozen puff pastry.
How To: Make sponge cake with phyllo dough
In these dessert pastry baking videos, learn how to make a sweet nut sponge cake recipe with filo dough. Our expert will walk you through this unique cake, with tips for rolling and folding the dough, mixing egg whites, making a frosting, and adding layers to the cake.
How To: Make flower and bear shaped cookies
In this video series, Rachel Dayan teaches you how to make flower and bear shaped cookies. Rachel shows you all the steps: ingredients, shaping the dough, and decorating.
How To: Make chocolate crackle cookies
In this video series, learn how to make chocolate crackle cookies. This dessert is perfect for the holidays. Our expert, Kip Bradford , shows you everything you need to know to make chocolate crackle cookies.
How To: Make savory puffs and eclairs
Julia Child demonstrates how to make savory puffs and éclairs, with savory fillings. They make ideal hors d'oeuvre. Make savory puffs and eclairs.
How To: Make khubani ka meetha (apricot dessert)
This traditional dessert from India is always served cold. Made with dried apricots, sugar and cornflour, khubani ka meetha is a great way to finish off any meal.
How To: Make many types of biscotti
In this episode, Chef Malgieri demonstrates how to prepare many types of delicious Italian biscotti. These pastries are made with cornmeal and lemon zest. Make many types of biscotti.
How To: Make hazelnut biscotti
Chef Alice Medrich, 'queen of desserts,' makes crunchy hazelnut biscotti. Biscotti is a traditional Italian cookie served with tea and coffee. Make hazelnut biscotti.
How To: Bake oatmeal cookies
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make oatmeal cookies. All you need is oatmeal and water and the ability to bake. You are now on your way to making sugarless cookies.
How To: Make chocolate genoise cake
Chef Alice Medrich demonstrates how to make chocolate genoise cake - a light, fluffy, egg based cake. The cake is made with cocoa and triple sifting to help it from deflating and gathering flour balls. Make chocolate genoise cake.
How To: Make chocolate dome cake
Chef Michel Richard demonstrates how to make chocolate dome cake; An amazing dome shaped cake with genoise, orange syrup, and chocolate mousse. Make chocolate dome cake.
How To: Make chocolate buttermilk fudge cake
Chef Jim Dodge demonstrates how to make chocolate buttermilk fudge cake; A deliciously moist chocolate cake, topped with a smooth, rich frosting. Make chocolate buttermilk fudge cake.
How To: Make almond cake
Chef Martha Stewart demonstrates how to make almond cake. Martha makes the building block - the almond cake layers. She uses almond paste, sugar, butter, and eggs then blends it all together to make the first layer of the almond cake. Make almond cake - Part 1 of 15.
How To: Make baked apples
An easy-to-follow recipe which produces a rustic but mouth-watering dessert. Taste this Baked Apples recipe. Make baked apples.
How To: Make wedding cake
Martha Stewart demonstrates how to make an exquisite almond apricot wedding cake. This video shows Martha before she was famous and infamous. Make wedding cake.
How To: Make a Danish pastry braid
In this "Baking With Julia" episode, Julia Child demonstrates how to make a Danish pastry braid. Crush berries for pastry filling and add sugar to help bring out the juices. Make a Danish pastry braid.
How To: Make harvest apple pie
Chef Jim Dodge demonstrates how to make harvest apple pie; A beautiful, old-fashioned apple pie - the techniques shown can also be used to make other pies, from cherry, rhubarb, or apple to steak or kidney. In part one, he demonstrates how to make the dough and peel the apples. Make harvest apple pie.
How To: Make apple pie
An apple pie recipe just like your mother used to make it! Follow this traditional but easy recipe to make one of the most well-loved desserts. Sample this Apple Pie recipe. Make apple pie.
How To: Make chocolate loaf
A rich nutty chocolate loaf recipe, delicious when served chilled with cream and a cup of coffee or tea. Delight in this chocolate loaf recipe. Make chocolate loaf.
How To: Make old fashioned peach pie and cobbler
In this video series, watch as Karen Weisman teaches how to make old fashioned peach pie and cobbler.
How To: Make coconut and almond chocolate covered strawberries
Love is in the air, and what better way to express yourself than with something covered with chocolate!?! Celebrate with chocolate covered strawberries. You'll need chocolate, almonds, coconut and strawberries for this simple recipe by Dani Spies.
How To: Make an apple pie
Apple pie ingredients are 9 1/2 inch pie plate. For the crust you will need flour, shortening, salt, water, butter. For the filling you will need apples, lemon, cinnamon, allspice, sugar, butter or margarine. A little milk and egg might be used for the top of the pie.
How To: Bake and frost a marble sheet cake
In this video series, you're going to learn how to bake and frost a sheet cake. This video goes over the first step: gathering all your ingredients. You don't want to start baking and find out you're missing something!
How To: Make creme fraiche custard brioche tart
Chef Nancy Silverton demonstrates how to make creme fraiche custard brioche tart. Silverton fills buttery brioche dough with crème fraiche custard, beginning the creation of her tart. Silverton makes a sabayon and finishes assembling her crème fraiche brioche tart. Make creme fraiche custard brioche tart.
How To: Make bread and butter pudding
Julia Child and Graham Kerr demonstrate two recipes for bread and butter pudding - one with cinnamon and sugar and the other with dried fruits. The recipes are lower in fat than traditional recipes. Graham and Julia have a clever comraderie, as well. Serve with whipped cream. Make bread and butter pudding.
How To: Make poppyseed torte
Chef Farbinger demonstrates how to poach apricots and make Austrian poppyseed torte. The history of Vienesse pastry talks about the native ingredient of the apricot. Farbinger demonstrates how to decorate the poppyseed torte after it's finished baking. Make poppyseed torte.
How To: Make triple chocolate treat
Chef David Ogonowski demonstrates how to make triple chocolate treat. A chocolate tart with rich truffle filling, espresso parfait, and cocoa cookies. Make triple chocolate treat.
How To: Make babas and savarin
Chef David Blom demonstrates how to make babas and savarin - A yeast dough, enriched with butter and eggs, baked in two different shapes. It's a very spongy dough. Chef Blom demonstrates how to prepare the molds with melted butter and then adds the dough to the molds. Make babas and savarin.
How To: Make Viennese cardinal slice
Chef Markus Farbinger demonstrates how to make Viennese cardinal slice - layers of genoise-like cake and meringue with a filling of espresso whipped cream. In part one, Chef Farbinger demonstrates how to prepare the pastry tray and make meringues with a pastry bag. Make Viennese cardinal slice.
How To: Make triple citrus meringue tart
Make triple citrus meringue tart. Lemon custard, meringue and flaky crust are combined with lime and orange flavoring, putting a unique spin on an original lemon meringue pie. In part one, they demonstrate how to take the orange zest off the orange, chop it up, make the dough, and slice lemons. Make triple citrus meringue tart.
How To: Make apple charlotte
A delightful take on the traditional apple charlotte, this dessert is made with toasted bread slices and chunks of apple, rather than the usual applesauce. This video discusses how to assemble this apple bread pudding. The traditional version uses applesauce which collapses out of the mold. Only use golden delicious or hard apples, to keep shape. Make apple charlotte.
How To: Make white chocolate pattycake
Chef Marcel Desaulniers demonstrates how to make white chocolate pattycake with chocolate tulips - using white and dark chocolate and fresh raspberries, sugar and egg yolk. Use a high powered egg beater or electric whisk to dissolve the sugar in the yolks and make the ribbon and soft peaks. Make white chocolate pattycake.
How To: Make butterscotch (blonde) brownies
Helen McMahon for Expert Village. We have our butterscotch brownies ready to go in the oven, which is 350 degrees we've set that before we started our project, and I just wanted to give you a recap of the ingredients.
How To: Make zabaglione
Renowned Italian chef Massimo Tagliaferri shows us how to make Zabaglione, a delicious Italian dessert similar to custard, which is very quick and easy to prepare. Try this Zabaglione recipe. Make zabaglione.
How To: Make jello desserts
In this video series of easy recipes, learn how to make Jello desserts from expert dessert preparation expert Scott Gottfried.
How To: Make raw chocolate
Kelly Johnson is a professional Chocolatier, but not a regular one. He devotes his life to the production and education of people about raw chocolate, and its healthy benefits.
How To: Make New York cheesecake
In this video series, watch as Chef Kip Bradford teaches how to make the classic New York cheesecake recipe.
How To: Make vegetarian brownies
In this video series, let Kara Denholm show you how to make veggie brownies. While at first the idea seems strange, all it takes is one bite to realize how truly delicious they are!
How To: Make homemade ice cream
In this series of dessert recipe videos, our experienced chef and caterer shares his secret for making delicious home-made ice cream. You will learn the steps in preparing strawberry and vanilla ice cream, with the added bonus of almond pralines to spice up the vanilla!