Dessert Recipes

A French Chocolate Tart or Tarte au Chocolat is not nearly as fussy a dessert to prepare as many people think. Even the pastry in this simple recipe is pretty forgiving.

This Limoncello Pound  Cake with Blueberry Port Sauce is proof positive that lemon and blueberry are such a perfect flavour combination.

Raspberry White Chocolate Truffle Tuxedo Cake. A multilayered celebration cake that is sure to be the hit of any worthy occasion. This Raspberry White Chocolate Truffle Tuxedo Cake is a pretty impressive looking dessert and probably looks pretty intimidating to beginner bakers but if you break it down into its individual components, it isn’t difficult at …

These Caramel Apple Waffles are a Fall brunch classic at our house but I have to admit we often serve this as dessert with ice cream to delighted guests. We have a guest chef appearance this morning with her take on caramel apple waffles. Spouse is a cracker-jack on the old waffles and had this …

Blueberry Ripple Ice Cream. Even the wild blueberry jam is homemade in this outstanding ice cream recipe.

Coconut Cream Trifle. A white cake gets soaked with some coconut rum and layered with coconut cream filling, then topped with vanilla whipped cream and toasted coconut for garnish. I got quite a response from posting my coconut cream pie recipe. Several people emailed to say they had made it and loved it. If you …

Chocolate Cinnamon Angel Food Cake. A light and airy chocolate cinnamon angel food cake that goes well with caramel or fudge sauce or fresh fruit jams or berries and whipped cream.

Orange Chocolate Mousse Trifle – this recipe was a rescue for an over baked chocolate sponge cake that turned out to be a much better dessert than I had first planned. This orange infused chocolate mousse trifle recipe isn’t really a recipe at all but an attempt to rescue a chocolate sponge cake that I …

Lemon curd and frozen puff pastry is all you really need to make these impressive and beautiful lemon pinwheel danish. They are a delicious and impressive addition to a weekend brunch. If you make the lemon curd the day before, these will take only minutes to prepare. I actually prepare them the night before and …

One 10 – 12  inch square frozen puff pastry thawed. 3 large apples peeled, cored and cut in thin wedges 1 tsp cinnamon ½ tsp nutmeg 3 tablespoons melted butter 4 tbsp brown sugar Place pastry sheet on a parchment covered baking sheet. Toss the apple wedges with the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. …