Hot Dessert Recipes How-Tos
How To: Make light and airy meringues
Chef Akoto demonstrates how to make meringues - ethereal cookies made of egg whites and sugar. She demonstrates how to use a pastry bag to make meringue sandwiches, chocolate meringues, and meringue napoleons. Make light and airy meringues.
How To: Make warm peach tarts
Julia Child demonstrates how to make warm peach tarts - seasoned peaches, baked along with a flaky pie crust. Chef Gordon makes individual tarlettes starting with the filling made from fresh ripe peaches. Keep the skins on to preserve flavor. Make warm peach tarts.
How To: Make deep fried ice cream
Watch this instructional video to learn how to deep fried ice cream. All you need is ice cream, corn flakes, cinnamon, sugar, and eggs. Unfortunately most people can't harness the magic of television when they cook in real life.
How To: Make chocolate filled bananas
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make chocolate bananas. All you need are bananas and chocolate. Not only is this incredibly quick and easy, but it is extremely tasty.
How To: Make an ice cream cake
Celebrate a birthday or anniversary with a homemade ice cream cake. Watch how to make this delectable dessert and buttery cookie crust. For this recipe you will need: oreo cookies, butter, favorite flavor ice cream, and whipped cream.
How To: Make light and fluffy French crepes
This video gives you a recipe for light fluffy crepes. It also shows you a technique for makeing them. You can add you own ingredients once they hit the table, fruit or sugar and cinnamon are always a good addition.
How To: Make ice cream bread
Jolene makes some groovy ice cream bread. What a trailer park combo! Mix melted ice cream and self rising flour to bake a delightful dessert that pairs well with -- ice cream.
How To: Make whipped cream from scratch
This is a tutorial demonstrating how to make whipped cream from scratch. Whipped cream is easy to make from scratch and is the perfect garnish for hot chocolate, pudding, coffee and just about any dessert. Make whipped cream from scratch.
How To: Make baseball cupcakes
This is a video showing how to make baseball cupcakes. These are quick and easy to make. The best part is they will bring a smile to any little sluggers face whether they win the game or not. Make baseball cupcakes.
How To: Make deep-fried chocolate truffles
Chef Michel Richard demonstrates how to make deep-fried chocolate truffles - molten chocolate truffles with a caramel crust. Make deep-fried chocolate truffles.
How To: Make sweet potato pie
Chef Leah Chase demonstrates how to make sweet potato pie; A simple yet delicious pastry with a pecan pie crust. Make sweet potato pie.
How To: Make a chocolate tower with fresh berries
Chef Christopher Gross demonstrates how to make a chocolate tower with fresh berries. This mouth-watering dessert, with its chocolate latticework tower topped with fresh berries, is both stunning and elegant. Make a chocolate tower with fresh berries.
How To: Make pralines
Chef Jacques Torres demonstrates how to make pralines; A crisp caramelized snack of sweet nuts also called nut brittle. Chef Torres mixes sugar with a variety of nuts before bringing the mixture to a boil. Make pralines.
How To: Make tourte milanese
Chef Michel Richard demonstrates how to make tourte milanese; Richard creates an extraordinary tourte, created from flaky pastry, layered with ham, cheese, eggs, and vegetables. Make tourte milanese.
How To: Make sunny side up apricot pastries
Chef Michel Richard demonstrates how to make sunny side up apricot pastries; A breakfast pastry with crispy puff pastry, rich pastry cream, and sweet apricots. Make sunny side up apricot pastries.
How To: Make mocha ganache
Chef Gale Gand demonstrates how to make mocha ganache. The flavors of chocolate and coffee mix in this rich and fudgy ganache. She starts with cream and milk, bring it to a boil and add coffee and sugar -- then finally add the chocolate. Make mocha ganache.
How To: Make tropical fruit napoleon
Chef Charlotte Akoto demonstrates how to make tropical fruit napoleons. Meringues combined with coconut, tropical fruits and rum whipped cream, are then stacked Napoleon style. Make tropical fruit napoleon.
How To: Make a berry yogurt tart
Chef Leslie Mackie demonstrates how to make berry yogurt tart - a delectable yogurt and mixed berry filling completes this basic tart. They start with eggs and sugar and then add vanilla, almonds, and berries to make this tart. Make a berry yogurt tart.
How To: Make baby pound cakes
Chef Johanne Killeen demonstrates how to make baby pound cakes - a perfect dessert or sweet to accompany tea. Baby cakes are butter cakes and are very easy to prepare. She dresses them with a rich cream cheese. Make baby pound cakes.
How To: Make sweet and savory baby cakes
Chef Johanne Killeen demonstrates how to make sweet and savory baby cakes - pecan, rhubarb, and rose geranium flavored pound cakes. She uses brown sugar and melted butter and then adds bourbon to make these sweet baby cakes. Make sweet and savory baby cakes.
How To: Make salsa quitza
In this "Baking With Julia" episode, Julia Child demonstrates how to make salsa quitza. This is a zesty dish, part quiche and part pizza, topped with salsa and two types of cheese. Make salsa quitza.
How To: Make Danish pastry pockets
In this "Baking With Julia" episode, Julia Child demonstrates how to make danish pastry pockets. They are filled with berries and a flaky dough. This recipe requires dry yeast. Make Danish pastry pockets.
How To: Make Johnnycake cobblers
Chef Johanne Killeen demonstrates how to make Johnnycake cobblers - delicious fruit desserts with a rich biscuit topping. Cobblers should be served right out of the oven with whipped or ice cream. Make Johnnycake cobblers.
How To: Make Sicilian X cookies
Chef Nick Malgieri demonstrates how to make Sicilian 'X' cookies - an 'X' shaped cookie from Sicily that is buttery and filled with nuts and figs. Make Sicilian X cookies.
How To: Make brown sugar meringue
Chef Gale Gand demonstrates how to make brown sugar meringue. This is a brilliant variation on classic meringue, made with brown sugar, a half a cup of egg yolks and sugar. The egg yolks are beat over a hot water bath to ensure the eggs are free of bacteria. Make brown sugar meringue.
How To: Make tart filling
Chef David Ogonowski demonstrates how to make tart filling. A wonderfully decadent and creamy truffle filling for the triple chocolate treat requires dark chocolate, butter to prevent scorching. Make tart filling.
How To: Make espresso parfait
Chef David Ogonowski demonstrates how to make this delicious parfait made with the strong, rich flavor of espresso. Beat egg yolks and boil a sugar syrup; combine. They speed the cooling of the sugar syrup with an ice water bath. Make espresso parfait.
How To: Make tart crust
Jacques and Julia demonstrate, step-by-step, how to create a buttery and flaky tart crust for their fresh fruit tarts. There may be some comical descrepencies based on room temperature and humidity levels. Make tart crust.
How To: Make chocolate raspberry ruffle cake
Chef Alice Medrich demonstrates how to make chocolate raspberry ruffle cake. The video concentrates on the steps of assemblying a chocolate genoise cake packed with raspberries and filled with sweetened creme fraiche and topped with chocolate ruffles. Make chocolate raspberry ruffle cake.
How To: Make creme fraiche filling
Chef Alice Medrich demonstrates how to make creme fraiche filling - sweetened creme fraiche, to use as a substitute for whipped creme to fill cakes. Make creme fraiche filling.
How To: Use zip lock bags, aluminum foil and parchmant paper
Michel Nischan shows conventional use of dishes for saving cleaning time later. Prime examples include using aluminum foil over pans and using zip lock bags rather than storage dishes for saving space.
How To: Make simple and sweet sugar cookies
Sugar cookies are a simple and sweet treat that you can easily dress up by decorating for holidays and special occasions. See how to make sugar cookies from scratch. Sugar cookies ingredients are butter, sugar, egg, milk, salt, baking powder and flour. You can find all types of cookie cutters for every holiday as well as every day. Make simple and sweet sugar cookies.
How To: Make homemade ice cream with an ice cream maker
Now that summer is swiftly approaching, it's time to start wrapping your mind around that most enjoyable of summertime treats: Ice cream. While you can certainly go to the store and purchase bulk packages of rocky road, store-bought ice cream is full of gnarly-sounding ingredients that sound more like a chemical found in a mad scientist's lab than actual food (xanthan gum, anyone?).
How To: Make bread pudding dessert
Bread pudding can be modified with different tastes and flavors. For a delicious dessert, dress up your bread pudding with a sugary topping sauce. Ingredients needed are butter, sugar, evaporated milk, eggs, ground ginger, cream of tarter, salt, sugar, stale, toasted bread, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon and freshly ground nutmeg. Drizzle pudding wih sugary sauce topping consisting of butter, powdered sugar, and rum or brandy.
How To: Make gooey chocolate chip cookies
Nothing tastes like gooey chocolate chip cookies right from the oven. Learn how to make fresh chocolate chip cookies at home. Ingredients needed are butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, salt, baking powder, baking soda, flour and semisweet chocolate chips.
How To: Make classic key lime pie
No matter what your climate or location might be, this simple recipe will turn your home into a tropical paradise. Let's whip up a classic key lime pie. A democratic blend of tangy and sweet, Key Lime Pie is a tasty way to end a meal. Watch how to make a classic Key Lime Pie at home. Ingredients needed are graham cracker pie crust, egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk, grated lime zest and key lime juice, fresh or bottled. If you can not find key lime juice in your grocery store, general lime ...
How To: Make delicious baked rice pudding
A delicious dessert enjoyed across the globe, rice pudding is a satisfying way to end any meal. Try this traditional rice pudding recipe baked with a sweet meringue topping. You will need long grain rice, milk, eggs, granulated sugar, vanilla, and raisins or dried fruit, if desired.
How To: Make chocolate dipped strawberries like a pro
In this video, Dr. Patricia Fine gives step-by-step instructions how to make chocolate dipped strawberries. You've seen them in the store, but they're so simple to make, why not make your own next time!
How To: Make chocolate mousse
Renee Loux will wow Michel with her chocolate mousse by keeping it raw and using avocado as the base. As the ingredients are being shown, a popup appears telling how that specific ingredient aids in your health. Easy to understand. Make chocolate mousse.
How To: Make coconut and chocolate macaroons
Have you ever eaten fresh macaroons straight from the oven? Take a bite out of these delightful macaroons, in both coconut and chocolate flavors. For this recipe you will need eggs, sugar, vanilla, shredded coconut and melted dark chocolate.