Dessert Recipes

Great and simple gift-idea! And the result tastes great as well.

Mudslide brownies spiked with Kahlua, Irish cream, and vodka, made with real unsweetened chocolate and walnuts. Finished with a Kahlua powdered sugar glaze.

Semolina pastries stuffed with pistachios, cinnamon, and sugar, then dipped in orange flower water and rolled in powdered sugar. A Middle Eastern-style cookie.

Orange biscotti with fresh orange zest, rum, and olive oil, rolled thin, cut into scalloped strips, and baked twice with a butter-sugar glaze. Crispy Italian cookies for dipping in coffee or dessert wine.

Peach and sour cream tart with fresh-poached peaches arranged in a sweet pastry shell, filled with a sour cream custard, and topped with sliced almonds. A classic French-style summer fruit tart.

It is an easy and nice peach french toast, I always make them for breakfasts, or desserts between the meals, they taste very great.

Serve with vanilla icecream or a dollop of best available double cream

Pecan-Chocolate Chip Pie with Cream Cheese Crust recipe

Italian pumpkin pie from the Po Valley with pasta frolla crust, fresh pumpkin filling, ground almonds, cornmeal, and candied orange peel. A rustic Northern Italian autumn dessert.

I liked these a lot. The poppyseed taste is subtle yet makes them a little different and more "elegant" than ordinary butter cookies.

I would strongly suggest using libby’s pumpkin puree. Semi sweet chips make for a more savory cookie and an excellent addition to a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Red and black raspberry pudding cake with fresh and frozen berries simmered into syrup and spooned over a buttery cake batter. The berries sink while baking, creating a soft pudding-cake top.

Rhubarb-apple crunch layers tart rhubarb and sliced apples under a brown sugar oat crumble, baked until bubbling. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream for a spring dessert.

Rich devil's food layer cake: a deeply dark, old-fashioned two-layer chocolate cake made with melted unsweetened chocolate, brown sugar, and buttermilk-style milk. The birthday cake blueprint.

Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (Black Forest Cherry recipe

Irmik helvasi: Turkish semolina halva infused with saffron milk, butter-toasted pistachios, and sweetened with sugar. A warm, fragrant dessert ready in 30 minutes.