Hot Dessert Recipes How-Tos
How To: Bake a soft lemon pound cake with a glossy glaze
Pound cake, with its heavenly fluffy consistency and sweet by not too sweet flavor, is just about perfect on its own. But add a little zest here and a little sugar glaze there and you've got a decadent dessert.
How To: Make really easy cookie dough
This video tutorial is in the Food category which will show you how to make really easy cookie dough. This is the one that is eaten raw, no need to bake and can be prepared in under 5 minutes. You will need a bowl, plain flour, white sugar, margarine, a table spoon, one cup measuring cup and a half cup measuring cup. Put half a cup of margarine in the bowl, add half a cup of white sugar and mix thoroughly. Add one cup of plain flour and mix it. It doesn't have to become like a paste. So, don'...
How To: Make a trifle pudding cake
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a trifle pudding cake. You will need: 16 oz pound cake, 30 oz can fruit cocktail, 16 oz whipped topping, 5 oz vanilla instant pudding, 3.5 c cold milk, and Maraschino cherries. First, slice up the pound cake and layer it on the bottom of a serving dish. After this, take a fork and poke holes in the pound cake then set aside. In a large bowl, empty the instant pudding mix in a bowl and then add in the cold milk and whisk. Next, pour the pudding over the c...
How To: Make fortune cookies from scratch
In this tutorial, we learn how to make fortune cookies from scratch. You will need: 2 large egg whites, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 1/2 tsp pure almond extract, 3 tbsp vegetable oil, 8 tbsp flour, 1.5 tsp corn starch, 1/4 tsp salt, 8 tbsp sugar, and 3 tsp water. First, write out your fortunes on small pieces of paper. After this, heat the oven to 300 degrees and grease two baking sheets. From here, combine all of your dry and wet ingredients, then combine them both together. Spoon the batter ont...
How To: Make chocolate ice cream from scratch
Chocolate ice cream is one of the most delicious and decadent things a person can eat. Usually you buy it in a tub, but it's really not too hard to make at home and this video will show you how to do it.
How To: Make rich honey and molasses ginger snaps
Now that we're knee-deep in fall, it's time to whip out those cool weather-combating spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Baked into cookies, pastries, and cakes, these warm spices add a sweet kick of flavor that either breaks or breaks a recipe.
How To: Make Arabian/Indian jalebi (deep fried syrup covered dough)
If you haven't heard of jalebi yet, then you're missing out on one of the most delicious dessert sensations your taste buds will ever come in contact with (no exaggeration).
How To: Make a deliciously spooky dirt chocolate pudding for Halloween
Dirt pudding is one of the tastiest and easiest dessert concoctions, and for Halloween this year, spook-ify the avenger dirt pudding with layers of yummy worms, sticks and ghosts. This fun-to-assemble chocolate pudding layered with crushed sandwich cookies, pretzels and lots of creepy crawlies is easy and great for the kids. The finishing touches of white chocolate ghosts and gravestones plus a hefty helping of candy corn and pumpkins are things that make you go "Boo!"
How To: Bake delicious and spooky ghost meringues with absinthe for Halloween
This Halloween, serve up a treat to your friends and children with these spooky ghost-shaped meringues. If you love meringue desserts, this will be quite the Halloween treat, with their adorable anise eyes.
How To: Use agar (aka agar-agar) for dessert recipes in lieu of gelatin
Forget jello— start using agar (aka agar-agar) in place of gelatin. Agar is a thickening agent, just like gelatin, than can be used in recipes for soups, jellies, ice cream and more! Jeff Potter has the 411 on agar uses. It's a great choice when preparing dishes for vegetarians, as it's a seaweed-based product with no animal derivatives whatsoever. Give it a try with two creative recipes from Jeff— Chocolate Panna Cotta and Screwdriver Jellies. Use agar (aka agar-agar) for dessert recipes in ...
How To: Make a chocolaty fudge brownie trifle dessert
It doesn't matter if you're a chocolate lover or just a casual chocolate eater, these chocolate brownie trifles are extremely addictive! If you whip up a batch of these trifles, you're sure to be the king (or queen) of the potluck or dinner party. No doubt about it. Everyone can enjoy a sweet chocolaty dessert.
How To: Make chocolate cashew clusters with peanut butter and marshmallows
Combine the sweet taste of chocolate and the nutty flavor of cashews in this awesome dessert recipe. It's called chocolate cashew clusters, and it's chocolate chips, marshmallows, peanuts butter, vanilla, and cashews packed into a bite-sized miracle of yumminess. Check it out— there so good you won't want to share. This recipe should yield about three-dozen.
How To: Make a sweet and rich peach angel food cake with only two ingredients
Angel food cake is a wonderfully light dessert, but it's even better with a peachy flavor. If you're planning on making a peach-flavored angel food cake, follow the recipe in this video, because it only involves two ingredients! Robin Benzle of Chow Time shows you her secret to a peach angel food cake, which goes great with ice cream.
How To: Make lemon and cranberry flavored Italian ice with only four ingredients
There's nothing better to cool those hot summer days that a deliciously fruit Italian ice. Italian ice is one of the best desserts to beat the heat, right alongside frozen yogurt and ice cream! And you probably didn't realize how easy Italian ice is to make at home. Robin Benzle of Chow Time will show you how with her lemon-cranberry version. There's only four ingredients: lemons, cranberries, water and sugar.
How To: Make custom cookie cutters
Do you like making fun-shaped cookies? Have you grown tired of the cookie cutter cookie cutters you can buy at the store? Watch this video to learn how you can easily make your own cookie cutters in whatever shape you want!
How To: Make ghost lollipops for Halloween
Halloween is one of the best holidays for making them ed deserts, especially ones that can be enjoyed on the go. Enter the ghost lollipop, a perfect synthesis of portability, sweetness, and scariness you can learn how to make by watching this video.
How To: Bake a classic crumb top coffee cake
Coffee cake was invented to be enjoyed alongside coffee (duh!), but we just as easily eat it alone...by the cakeful. We especially love coffee cakes with a tender, moist inside and a crumbly, crunchy top filled with the sweetness of cinnamon and nutmeg.
How To: Bake a funfetti cake from scratch
Funfetti cakes are a common site at children's birthday parties, but most of the busy parents who make those happen go with the boxed cake mix version. It's really not too hard to make from scratch for extra flavor! Watch this video to find out how.
How To: Make rock candy with ease
In this tutorial, we learn how to make rock candy with ease. First, add 2 cups of pure sugar to boiling water. After this, stir in flavoring and food coloring then stir the mixture until it's thick. After this, remove from heat and let it cool. Then, pour in cooled water to the mixture and dip a skewer into the mixture, then roll around in sugar and place back into the jar using a paperclip to hold it on the top. You should see rock candy form in around 2-3 hours. Let the skewer sit for longe...
How To: Easily make pie pastry dough
In this tutorial, Angie teaches us how to easily make pie pastry dough. Start with 2 cups of all purpose flour and a pinch of salt. Add in 1 c of shortening to this and use a pastry blender to cut it into the bowl. After you have worked the shortening into the mixture, add in 1 beaten egg and 1 tbsp of vinegar. Next, add in 2 tbsp of ice water and mix everything with a fork until it comes together. Mix in a circular motion, making sure not to over-work the dough. Separate the dough into 2 hal...
How To: Make original Toll House chocolate
In this tutorial, we learn how to make original Toll House chocolate. First, measure out 2 1/4 c flour with 1 tsp baking soda, and combine with 2 sticks of butter. Then, add in 3/4 c sugar to the mixture with a spoonful of molasses. Now, add in one egg and combine together. Then add in one bag of Toll house chocolate chips to the mixture along with vanilla. After this, spoon the cookie batter onto a greased cookie sheet and bake in the oven until they are golden brown. take out of the oven an...
How To: Make a blueberry cheesecake
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a blueberry cheesecake. First, grease your tin with a lot of butter on the sides and on the bottom. Then, make your crust by combining chopped hazelnuts, flour, pinch of salt, sugar, and butter. Use a mixer to combine everything together, then pack into the cheesecake tin and place in the oven until it's golden brown. Now make the cheesecake filling by combining cream cheese and sugar until it's smooth. Then add in vanilla and almond essence along with c...
How To: Make cinnamon roll bread pudding
In this tutorial, we learn how to make cinnamon roll bread pudding. First, place cubes of bread on the bottom of a baking dish until it covers the bottom. After this, chop up some nuts and scatter them over the top of it. After this, beat four eggs, then add in 2 c whole milk, 3/4 c heavy cream, 1/3 c Amaretto, and a small amount of vanilla extract. Add in some cinnamon, then 1/2 c sugar with a pinch of salt, then blend together and pour over the bread. Push down the bread into the mixture, t...
How To: Make mini cheesecake treats
In this tutorial, we learn how to make mini cheesecake treats. First, you will need to take cream cheese and place into a bowl with eggs, and sugar. Blend this together with an electric blender. Then, add in vanilla extract and an egg, then blend together once more. Next, place cups into a muffin pan and place a vanilla wafer inside each individual cup. Then, add in the cheesecake mixture and set in the muffins to an oven set at 350 degrees. When finished cooking, let cool completely, then ad...
How To: Easily make a no bake cheesecake
In this video, we learn how to easily make a no bank cheesecake. First, you will need to buy a Jell-O no bake cheesecake box and you will also need 1/2 stick butter, 1.5 c milk, 34 tbsp sugar, and a bowl. Now, take the butter and place it into a bowl and microwave it until melted. After this, add in the crust packet from the box and mix together with sugar using your hands. After you pack this down on the bottom of a pie pan, then pour the filling packet into a bowl and add in water with it, ...
How To: Make croissant bread pudding with Food Network
In this tutorial, we learn how to make croissant bread pudding with Food Network. First, combine 3 whole eggs and 5 egg yolks with 3 cups of half and half. Whisk this together, then add in 1.5 c sugar and 1.5 tbsp vanilla and mix together again. After this, cut croissants in half and place on the bottom of a casserole dish. Now, layer raisins on top of this, then add on a second layer of croissants. Pour the liquid mixture over these, then push the croissants down into the custard so they abs...
How To: Make chocolate rice krispies treats
In this tutorial, we learn how to make chocolate Rice Krispies treats. First, you will need 1 stick of butter, 12 oz package large marshmallows, 6 c Rice Krispies cereal, microwave safe bowl, and nonstick pan. Now place your butter and your marshmallows in the bowl and microwave for one minute. Then, use a spoon to mix together the mixture and place in the microwave again if it isn't melted, two more minutes should be perfect. After this, spray non-stick spray on the pan and then mix the mars...
How To: Make rock candy in your spare time
This is a video tutorial in the Food category where you are going to learn how to make rock candy in your spare time. For this you will need 4 cups sugar, 2 cups water, small saucepan, wooden spoon, candy thermometer, glass jar, measuring cup, cotton string, a weight to hang on the string, waxed paper and a pencil. Boil water in the saucepan and dissolve the sugar in it. Pour the solution in to the jar. Tie the weight to one end of the string and tie the other end to the middle of the pencil....
How To: Combine cold butter and flour
In this video by Food Network, we learn how to combine cold butter and flour. It may seem like it's hard to combine these two ingredients, but there is a great way it can be done. First, you will need to grab a cheese grater on the fine side and your cold piece of butter. Rub the butter onto the grater and allow it to fall into a bowl that is filled with the flour you are going to use. As you do this, you can mix the ingredients together by hand, making for an easier way to cook and less of a...
How To: Make a pumpkin pie with fresh pumpkin
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a pumpkin pie with fresh pumpkin. First, take your pumpkin and cut it in half. After this, take out the middle of the pumpkin, then cut it into several large cubes in a large bowl. After this, place the pumpkin into boiling water and cook until they are soft. Once finished, take the filling from the middle and peel the skin off the pieces. Now mash these pieces up using a food processor and add together with the other ingredients for your pumpkin pie. Po...
How To: Make a traditional sweet potato marshmellow casserole for the holidays
Looking for a massive sugar rush for Thanksgiving this year? Sweet potato marshmallow casserole, a true dream for any sugar lover, with all that caramelized goodness, how could you go wrong!? In this video you will learn how to make the casserole and get the nice crusty marshmallows on top.
How To: Make a chocolate cake in a bowl in the microwave in 5 minutes
Baking a cake is usually too much of a nuisance if you just want to eat some cake, but it need not be. Watch this video to learn how you can make an easy personal sized chocolate cake in the microwave in 5 minutes.
How To: Make Middle Eastern sticky sweet medjool (date ball)
We'd never turn down a nice big slice of homemade apple pie, but sometimes eating the same selection of all-American desserts (apple pie, brownies, lemon custard pie) gets to be boring.
How To: Make DIY gummy candy out of gelatin
When people go to the movies, they usually either eat popcorn or candy. If you're a candy type and are jealous of how easy it is to make popcorn at home, watch this video to learn how you can quickly and easily make DIY gummy candy that tastes delicious!
How To: Make noodle kugel with apples
Noodle kugel is a traditional Jewish side dish or desert featuring noodles, apples, and cream cheese combined to great effect. No matter what you faith, you should know how to make one, and this video will teach you exactly how to do it.
How To: Make a cake out of towels to give as a wedding present
Cake and towels are not apparently connected, but if you're trying to think of a really cool wedding gift they can be combined most appealingly. This video will show you how to make a "cake" out of towels that makes a cute and practical gift.
How To: Make butterscotch brickle Bourbon bon bons
As Peggy from "Married With Children" demonstrated, every woman loves to kick back with a plate of bon bons and a good soap opera. Sure, you can purchase your bon bons from a store, but why ingest all those artificial preservatives and chemicals when you can make your own at home?
How To: Make a simple no-bake banana brickle bombe cake
Making cakes usually scares the hell out of us. It doesn't matter what kind of cake it is; if it requires us shoving it in the oven, it'll come out sad looking and usually burnt. Which is why we're digging this no-bake cake.
How To: Make sweet concord grape pie with Funny Side Up
Why are you looking forward to fall? Other than sipping on warm vanilla lattes, watching the leaves change colors, and of course the start of the holiday season, we're looking forward to all the fresh, in season fruits and vegetables. Among these ripe offerings are grapes, which are extra juicy this time of year.
How To: Make a rustic pear and goat cheese tart dessert, served hot or cold
Forget apple pie. Bring fresh summer pears into your kitchen for a wonderful dessert which blends ripe, juicy pears, candied ginger and creamy goat cheese into a tasty, rustic tart. This tart dessert will take some time and precision inside the kitchen, but it's well worth the effort. The crust is made with butter that's gently heated to a light brown and then chilled. When baked, the goat cheese gives a subtle tang amongst the medley of flavors.