Category: Desserts in a Dish
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No Bake Summer Berry Pudding
I’m sure you’ve seen recipes for this type of no bake puddings before. I remember Martha Stewart making it years ago, and since then many others have reproduced the dessert without any changes in the process. Basically, this no bake berry pudding includes plain white (or wheat) bread, your choice of berries along with a…
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Annin Do Fu Almond Pudding, Both Low Carb & Paleo
I’m not quite sure how I came across this dessert…I think I was looking up something with almond milk and came across this Asian delicacy that is served in many restaurants. I’ve never come across it personally in any restaurant that I frequent, so I was really curious from the start. I’m a huge fan…
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Quick & Easy Bakewell Tart
I recently made an almond cake using an easy and versatile recipe that I have used in the past to make those delicious rainbow bars made famous in NYC. I had a little batter leftover along with some homemade strawberry jam, so I decided to put together something most Americans may not have heard about,…
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Dark Chocolate Ambrosia Rice Pudding
I was fortunate enough to grow up in Australia where I was surrounded by so many different cultures that taught me so much about the people and their local cuisine. The one thing that was common to all of them was that they were very resourceful when it came to cooking. One thing I learned…
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Summer Coconut Rum Cake
I recently came across an interesting coconut cake recipe on a blog called chef in disguise that used semolina. The cake is similar to the revani cake made in the Greek community, but when using semolina, you really need to know what grade of semolina to use (med or coarse) and many recipes don’t specify.…
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Pudim de Pão
Everyone loves a great bread pudding, but I bet you’ve never had a bread pudding quite like this one before. This delicious bread pudding has a lighter and more uniform texture than the traditional bread puddings, and once you taste it, you’ll agree that it’s more like a cross between a bread pudding and a…
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Mexican Capirotada
The few weeks before Easter, I was doing a lot of research on Lenten desserts. I came across so many that I highlighted and wrote about in the weeks leading up to the Easter holiday. One of them that I came across was something called Capirotada (ka-pe-ro-ta-da), which is a Mexican dessert traditionally eaten during…
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Dark Chocolate Maple Pecan Baklava Rolls
Enjoying homemade baklava feels like a guilty pleasure. I grew up in a home where we made it all the time using melted butter to generously coat the filo. The truth is, you can use either butter or oil and in fact, many Greeks make it with oil at home. Not because they have anything…
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Stovetop Halva (Halva Tou Koutaliou)
My mother started working at a very young age to help support her family, so as a working woman for most of her life, she never really found kitchen duties very exciting. Her belief was always that as long as you had a few basic, simple ingredients, you could always prepare a great meal. For…
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Baked Strawberry Apple Crisp with Coconut Milk
Another easy and delicious dessert that seems sinful but really isn’t, is something called an Apple Crisp. This is different from the cobblers, crumbles and brown betty desserts we all know and love. Like the others, a fruit crisp is made with whatever fruits you have on hand. The most traditional ones are blueberries, blackberries,…
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Dessert Enchiladas: Flour Tortillas, Chocolate Cream & Strawberry Sauce
Developing dessert ideas to be enjoyed over the Lenten season is always a bit of a challenge. Other than the conventional items that people give up, others won’t eat butter or leavened bread, some exclude eggs, milk and cream and others simply remove anything sweet from their diet altogether. For those of you that still…