Dessert
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Strawberry and Cream Layer Cake
This delicate cake is inspired by fraisier, a French cake made from layers of sponge, strawberries and cream. Fraisier cakes are elaborately constructed and typically combine several components to make the cream filling, but this strawberry cake is lighter, looser and much more casual. To avoid squishing the cake when slicing, use a serrated knife in long, even strokes to cut clean slices. (Watch Claire make this cake and two others on YouTube.)
Raspberry and Cream Roulade
The exquisite combination of raspberries and cream is made even more so by the addition of this light, finely textured sponge cake. The cake should be chilled before serving to ensure it holds its shape. Because the sponge is oil-based rather than butter-based, it stays soft and flexible even when cold. (Watch Claire make this cake and two others on YouTube.)
Brownie Bite Ice Cream Sandwiches by Sugar Bowl Bakery
Who doesn't love a quick and easy treat? These Brownie Bite Ice Cream Sandwiches from Sugar Bowl Bakery will cure your sweet tooth faster than you can say brownie bites!
Dulce de Leche Icebox Cake
Icebox cake, so named because it sets in the fridge or freezer, comes together with a little mixing and stacking. All it needs after that is time to chill, making it ideal for hot days. This version combines store-bought sandwich cookies with dulce de leche whipped cream for a cookies-and-cream meets salted caramel flavor. If you’d like, garnish with crumbled cookies.
Pistachio Morning Buns
This is a decidedly less-sweet kind of morning bun, topped with a lemony, cardamom-scented sugar for crunch and flavor rather than the typical icing or sticky goo of a cinnamon bun. Unlike most sweet buns, which tend to stale quickly, these stay soft and pillowy long after they cool. The buns are best the day they’re baked but will keep, stored airtight at room temperature, for up to 4 days. The recipe time factors in dough preparation. If you already have all-purpose enriched bread dough on hand, this is much swifter work.
Birthday Baked Alaska
Baked alaska is beautiful, elegant and dramatic. It’s easy to make; it’s convenient (it must be made ahead); it’s got ice cream (enough said); it’s got meringue — which is the same as saying it’s got magic. It looks gorgeous whole and just as gorgeous sliced; it’s creamy and icy cold inside, marshmallowy all around and warm on the edges. In other words, it’s perfect. This one was made in the colors of the French flag to celebrate the 117th birthday of the French nun, Sister André. Reverse the colors for the Fourth of July — it’s what the creator of this recipe, Zoë François, did originally — or use whatever flavors of ice cream you love; the loaf pan will hold 2 quarts.
Southern Caramel Cake
This traditional Southern caramel cake is perfect for when you want layer cake, and you'd like it fast. It's light and fluffy under the sweet caramel glaze, which hardens at room temperature and shatters gently with every bite. The glaze comes together quickly, thanks to the dark brown sugar, which already has that deep caramel flavor you’d get from cooking down granulated sugar. A little heat, butter and buttermilk give the icing body. The final cake is like a soft drop biscuit under a sweet caramel sauce, and it's just as good out of the refrigerator as it is warm.
Malt Chocolate and Marshmallow Sandwiches
These cookies contain three distinct textures in each bite: a chocolate malt shortbread cookie, a soft marshmallow center, and a smooth dark chocolate ganache topping. They are sophisticated cookies, but the flavors are inspired by a favorite childhood treat: malted milk balls. The secret ingredient is malted chocolate drink powder such as in Ovaltine, Milo or Bournvita powder. The gold leaf or flaky sea salt topping is optional, but don’t hold back if you’re ready to dive into something that looks as exquisite as it tastes.
Chocolate-Peppermint Shortbread
In this vibrant holiday dessert, cocoa shortbread is pressed into an even layer, baked, then topped with swoops of peppermint meringue (optionally swirled with red food coloring). Back into a low oven it goes for about 2 hours, until the meringue becomes crisp and chewy. Once cooled, it's cut into rough, jagged pieces. If you don’t have a stand mixer, the shortbread and meringue can be made with a hand mixer or entirely by hand. The mixing times will be significantly longer, so follow the visual cues instead. (Watch Sohla make her Chocolate-Peppermint Shortbread here.)
Pistachio Pinwheels
This recipe, from “Dessert Person” (Clarkson Potter, 2020) is one of those ace-up-your-sleeve, slice-and-bake cookie recipes every baker needs. The pinwheels are super tasty, need no decoration and require no major assembly. These buttery, nutty, shortbready cookies achieve the highest calling for any recipe: They look and taste as if they are harder to make than they are. (Watch Claire make them here.)
Pumpkin Roll With Coffee-Caramel Cream
A roulade is a classic dessert made by rolling a thin cake around a flavorful filling, which creates an inviting swirl once sliced. This roulade starts with a subtly spiced, moist pumpkin cake that is wrapped around a rich filling made with cream cheese, heavy cream, caramel and coffee. The filling is bittersweet and slightly savory, which works nicely with the earthy pumpkin sponge. Make sure to use very finely ground coffee, like what you would use to make a cup of pour-over.
Soft Toffee Bars
This easy and soft toffee bars recipe is quick, tastes amazing, and is ready in no time. You only need 5 ingredients and you can be whip these up in no time!
Vegan Double Caramel Flan
This vegan, dairy free, and gluten free vegan double caramel flan recipe makes an easy but elegant dessert that’s well suited to a wide range of dietary needs.
Matcha Jelly
This matcha jelly recipe is easy to make and a delicious and healthy treat. It's a great alternative for dessert for parties, or as a condiment on a sandwich.
Piney Gin Fizz Cocktail
This fresh, light Pine Gin Cocktail recipe makes me think of misty nights in late spring when you can smell the new growth of a forest. Garnish with lemon peel.
Greatist recipe on a sponge cake
This Czech Cake recipe is consisted of Sponge Cake and a Gelatin stiffener jam to pour on top. It's easy and delicious! You can skip the topping if you want to.
Grandgrandmother’s cake
Rhubarb Macaroon Tart
Rhubarb makes any dessert a showstopper, but this tart has more than meets the eye. Under the fruit is a luscious vanilla custard nestled in a chewy macaroon shell. When shopping, look for rhubarb that is about 1/2- to 3/4-inch wide; any bigger and the stalks might start to fall apart in the poaching liquid before the center becomes tender, and any smaller and you’ll need to keep a close eye, since they’ll cook quickly. While the rhubarb topping is a show-stopper, freshly sliced fruit makes a great understudy if you can’t find robust pink stalks.
Tiramisu Toast
This pared-down take on tiramisu can be whipped up any time. The base is sugar-crust toast, which gets soaked in Kahlúa and topped with crème fraîche and cocoa.
Genius Cookie Butter Buttercream Frosting
This two ingredient buttercream frosting pretty much makes itself. It's lightly spiced, just the right amount sweet, has enough salt to make it interesting, and is as smooth and sumptuous as any buttercream but whips up in just a few minutes.
Peppermint Bark Martini
It's hard to believe that the holidays are almost upon us! A delicious Peppermint Bark Martini recipe that's sure to put you in the holiday spirit!
Easy Vegan Chocolate Truffles
These vegan chocolate truffles are super rich and decadent! The best part is that they are SO EASY to make, using only 3 ingredients!
Kim-Joy's Royal Icing
Royal Icing recipe from Kim-Joy's new book, "Baking with Kim-Joy".
No-Bake Cookies
These classic no-bake peanut butter and chocolate treats are also known as cow patties or preacher cookies. The story goes like this: If a housewife looked out the window and saw the preacher coming up the mountain on his horse, she could whip up a batch of these cookies in the amount of time it would take him to reach the front door. True or not, it’s a good story — and a great cookie that’s a cinch to put together. Combine all the ingredients in a pot over medium heat, then drop spoonfuls on a sheet pan and chill until set. Be sure to use quick-cooking oats, not instant, when making these cookies. The less-processed oats provide delightful texture and chewiness.