Dessert Recipes

Perfect Chocolate Sponge Cake. A simple chocolate sponge cake with a light texture and far fewer calories than other cakes.

Cinnamon Palmiers with Raspberry Compote. Frozen store-bought puff pastry makes these elegant little treats so easy to make. Today’s recipe is a simple to make last minute dessert idea using ready made frozen puff pastry. I sometimes serve these as a dessert hors d’ouevre at the end of a cocktail party.  I  also like to serve palmiers …

Almond butter cookies are a great, delicious alternative to peanut butter cookies. These almond butter cookies are what my Mom would call a “Cup of Tea Cookie”. Meaning obviously, that it is an ideal treat to be enjoyed with your favourite steaming cup of relaxing tea. This one is soft and slightly chewy, with a …

Here’s a very successful experiment that I tried last week when making brioche for a bread pudding I had planned for a dinner party. Here in Newfoundland we love our “toutons” which are  pieces of white bread dough, traditionally fried in fat back pork. The brioche dough needs to be fried at a lower temperature …

Strawberry Chocolate Buttercream Cake. Chocolate cake filled with fresh strawberries and covered in melt in you mouth Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. A good chocolate buttercream icing is a dangerous thing. After a single serving, I can resist most of the goodies created here but this stuff calls out to me if there are any leftovers at …

  Chocolate Kahlua Tiramisu Cake Well it’s certainly been a busy month for me with schoolwork but I’m back to the blog this morning with a great and pretty easy dessert recipe. I served this last night at a dinner party to celebrate a friend’s birthday and it was a big hit. A simple chocolate scratch cake …

You don’t like bread pudding? This cherry and chocolate bread pudding will change your mind. This cherry and chocolate bread pudding came to be when I was planning Spouse’s favorite Dijon and Brown Sugar Glazed Ham for supper last night and wanted a good dessert for afters.  Regular readers of this blog will know that Spouse …

The Best Homemade Old Fashioned Sponge Cake. A simple, basic, yet versatile sponge cake recipe that can become the basis of many different desserts, trifles or dessert cakes.

This experimental little cheesecake taste and calorie “bomb” was the result of a frozen leftover cheesecake that needed a little dressing up. The concept of an entire “leftover” cheesecake may be a little strange to most readers but the truth is that I made ten White Chocolate Cheesecakes the day before Christmas Eve to give to …

Raspberry Chocolate Buttercream Napoleons. Frozen puff pastry makes this a much easier dessert to prepare while thoroughly impressing your guests. Originally published Nov. 2009. This is another of what I call a fridge cleaner recipe. That’s because it started with leftover puff pastry and buttercream frosting that I had in my refrigerator at the time. …