These Orange Cardamom Cookies are the perfect way to add a little elegance to your holiday cookie platter. The crumbly shortbread cookie base is studded with chopped pistachios and topped with a light glaze.
These flourless cardamom-coconut cookies are easy to make and perfect for the whole family.
Portokalopita is an orange cake with yogurt, phyllo dough and syrup very popular in Greece. Full of orange flavor is the ultimate dessert for every occasion.
A kolache is a yeasted bread filled with a topping, which can be sweet or savory. Lydia Faust has made a name for herself in the town of Snook, Texas for her exquisitely tender, buttery kolaches.
These cardamom shortbread cookies are supremely tender and flavorful. With this recipe, you’ll get a soft, buttery shortbread cookie infused with the rich aroma of ground cardamom.
Sweet Yogurt Burek - a filo pastry pie layered with a sweet yogurt based cream.
Kiffles (kiflis) are traditional Hungarian cream cheese pastry cookies with assorted fruit and nut fillings like apricot, almond, and poppy.
Recipe for traditional Greek Sweet Semolina pie known as "bougatsa" - delicious baked phyllo filled with vanilla semolina custard.
Italian Rice Pie is a classic Italian dessert that is commonly served at Easter. Known also as Italian Easter Rice Pie or Pastiera di Riso, this pie can be made and refrigerated up to three days in advance.
Lemon Lamingtons. Moist vanilla cake cubes dipped in lemon and coconut. Enjoy them plain or dress them but with raspberry compote and vanilla cream.
Galaktoboureko is a delicious Greek dessert with phyllo dough, a creamy custard filling, and an unbelievable syrup!
Japanese Condensed Milk Bread is a delicious way to enjoy condensed milk, enclosed in a soft and sweet bread that is studded with raisins and cherries.
If you want this delicate custard wrapped up by layers of thin, crunchy phyllo bathed in delicious, succulent syrup, you should make galaktoboureko, the famous Greek custard pie.
While not difficult to make, this is a multi-step, highly involved cake that requires planning ahead. Please read through the instructions and the notes in the bottom of the recipe before starting. Note that the frosting calls for a can of Dulce De Leche, which is readily sold in some countries. If it's not available where you live, you can make your own with sweetened condensed milk. Just know that it takes 4 hours to cook, so plan ahead and make it as far as a month in advance. The finished cake, needs to chill overnight in the fridge before serving.
It is the sponge cake coated in chocolate and rolled in desiccated coconut. The cake is moist, delicate and utterly delicious. So delicious that in Australia, July 21st is designated as National Lamington Day in which charity groups sell Lamingtons to raise money
Learn how to make puffy, fragrant ginger cakes just like the ones sold in Colonial Williamsburg.
Simple cardamom sugar cookies made special with a snowflake cookie stamp!
This Bougatsa pastry is made of velvety custard cream tucked inside a very crispy filo and served with plenty of icing sugar and cinnamon on top!
Share this on WhatsAppCassava cake is a yummy, fudgy and flavorful dessert made of grated cassava, coconut milk, eggs and condensed milk. There are so many delicacy and souvenir shops that sell special cassava cake. Ralo’s, Rodilla’s are some of the few. Usually topped with macapuno, custard or grated cheese, Cassava cake is a delectable treat everyone would love. But don’t worry, you can make at the comfort of your home.
While I was in Greece I got to try a few new Greek treats and one of my favorites was galaktoboureko. Galaktoboureko (aka milk börek) is a custard pie that is wrapped in phyllo dough
When I finished high school, I worked hard for 6 months, did a quick English teaching course, packed my bags, sold my car and set off to live in Europe for a year. I had no idea what I was going to…
This delicious sweet Filo Pastry dessert is the viral Tiktok Filo (or Phyllo) Crinkle Cake made using a condensed milk custard. The Soufra Fillo Pastry folding technique is commonly used in traditional Greek desserts. Filo Pastry recipe. phyllo dough recipe. how to make Filo Pastry. where to buy Fil
A moist lemon cake made with ricotta cheese.
Dating from the 18th century, these cakes have always been baked in small individual tins, either patty pans or individual heart shaped molds. Sweet and buttery, flavoured with lemon, and stogged full of lovely dried currants
A rich buttery cake, Boterkoek means Butter Cake in Dutch. This delciouse treat is so simple to make and great for serving to guests or for afternoon tea!
This decadent cookie starts with a cream cheese-based dough and whatever filling you can dream up. Honey-walnut or chocolate are good places to start!
An Australian amateur cook has received an outpouring of praise online for making delicious glazed cinnamon scrolls in the $29 pie maker available at Kmart.
A grown up dessert perfect for impressing at a dinner party, this rich and intense chocolate cake from Nigella Lawson's How to Eat has a light pudding-like texture and is any chocoholic's dream.
A healthier and quick way to whip up cake to satisfy those chocolate cravings. If you’re like me, and you love the taste of chocolate, but you don’t want to eat anything too sugary, then you should make this healthy chocolate blender cake. If you like this cake, you will love my Blender Whole Orange […]
Semolina Coconut Cake - a sweet syrup-y Middle Eastern cake, best served with a hot cup of tea in the afternoon
An Australian amateur cook has received an outpouring of praise online for making delicious glazed cinnamon scrolls in the $29 pie maker available at...
If you’ve been to Greece, chances are you’ve tried bougatsa. Maybe for breakfast one morning before hitting the beach? Or after stumbling upon a small bakery with a batch of pies fresh out of the o…
While she might not be appearing on future seasons of The Great British Bake Off, you can still get your Mary Berry fix trying out her recipes at home. Ready, set, bake.
How to make sweet buttery crusted custard mochi, a cross between a mochi and custard. The bottom will be a chewy mochi texture and the top is a sweet creamy custard like texture.
Portokalopita is an orange cake with yogurt, phyllo dough and syrup very popular in Greece. Full of orange flavor is the ultimate dessert for every occasion.
If you want this delicate custard wrapped up by layers of thin, crunchy phyllo bathed in delicious, succulent syrup, you should make galaktoboureko, the famous Greek custard pie.
You will love Dule de Leche Pastry Cream!! Pastry Cream (Creme Patissiere) is a delicious creamy filling for napoleons, profiteroles, tarts, cakes and more! This easy recipe for dulce de leche pastry cream has step-by-step photos so you can succeed in cooking pastry cream!
This magical custard impossible pie separates into layers in the oven, with a pastry-like base, coconut top and wobbly custard centre.
These pastries are found in bakeries and home kitchens throughout Greece and are often eaten at breakfast time or with coffee. They are thought to have originated in Macedonia where the idea had come from Constantinople ( Istanbul ). They can be made with different fillings which meant they offered versatility and flexibility to working families and are quite quick and easy to make. Like many Greek dishes, different regions make their own versions. These ones are filled with the popular semolina custard while others can be made with a sweet cheese filling, which is very similar to Tyropita ( cheese pies). These are also made with Filo pastry which is common today but sometimes puff pastry may be used.
A gloriously creamy and moist semolina cake, stuffed with luscious cream drizzled with syrup then topped with nuts. A pastry shop style cake with a stunning look that will get everyone's attention.
A moist cake that is quick to make.
Even better than all of my olive oil cakes are these little Portuguese Orange Cakes, also know as "Bolinhos de Laranja". They ...
This sweet, creamy, caramel-y cake is the perfect dessert for those nights where nothing but the most heavenly dessert will do.
A staple in most Mediterranean kitchens, this light, and barely sweet Classic Olive Oil Cake is perfect for an afternoon snack or late-morning tea.
Learn how to make Biscoff tiramisu with just nine ingredients for a fun twist on everyone’s favorite Italian dessert!
