Cuisine: Dessert
Orange Custard Pie
This Orange Custard Pie was a recipe I found in the back of an old recipe box. I also happen to have an orange tree that is bursting with oranges. It's pretty simple to make and is delicious.
By - Prep: 15 mins
- Cook: 45 mins
- Yields: 8 Servings
Tiramisu Layer Cake
My daughter Grace made this spectacular Tiramisu Layer Cake. This traditional Italian dessert is made with a sponge cake then layered with a creamy mascarpone filling, doused in coffee, coffee liqueur and topped with cocoa powder and chocolate curls.
- Prep: 40 mins
- Cook: 25 mins
- Yields: 12 Servings
Ginger Cake
This recipe for Ginger Cake is adapted from The Book of Jewish Food, by Claudia Roden. She has written many cookbooks and is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including A Book of Middle Eastern Food, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food and Arabesque—Sumptuous Food from Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon.
This cake is best made 3 days before you want to eat it, and it keeps a long time. I served it with a dollop of ginger preserves.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 1 hrs
- Yields: 10 Servings
Banana Butterscotch Muffins
My husband made these Banana Butterscotch Muffins from Nigella Lawson's book, Nigella Express.Nigella says you can substitute white chocolate chips for the butterscotch chips, but her favorite is dark chocolate. Personally, I love the butterscotch.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 20 mins
- Yields: 12 Servings
Sticky Toffee Banana Cake
I happen to have a ton of bananas. I stumbled upon this recipe for Sticky Toffee Banana Cake, which is an excellent way of using them. This cake has amazing banana flavor and is topped with a rich, sticky and creamy toffee sauce. It's just too good to be true!
- Prep: 20 mins
- Cook: 35 mins
- Yields: 10 - 12 Servings
Amarena Cheesecake
The Amarena cherry is a small bitter dark colored Italian cherry grown in Bologna and Modena, Italy. It is usually bottled in syrup and used as a decoration on desserts.
These luscious and intensely flavorful amarena cherries can be used in place of any dish that requires ordinary candied cherries. You will find no end to using them. Use them for toppings, over pancakes, ice cream, dessert, champagne and even a glass of seltzer. My husband made this cheesecake recipe which came attached to the jar.
- Prep: 15 mins
- Cook: 1 hrs 15 mins
- Yields: 6 - 8 Servings
Pastéis de Nata (Portuguese Egg Tarts)
I was watching the Portugal episode of Somebody Feed Phil. I love Phil. Anyway, while eating his way through his trip he kept eating Pastéis de Nata, which is a specialty all over Portugal. They are little egg tarts with a cinnamon flavored custard nestled in a flaky puff pastry crust. I had to try them. There a very few Portugese Bakeries in Los Angeles, but I found Natas Pastries in Sherman Oaks. The beautiful tile covered walls made me feel like I was in Europe. We actually had a wonderful lunch there and then had these little custard tarts. Needless to say, I must go back VERY soon.
- Prep: 20 mins
- Cook: 20 mins
- Yields: Makes 48 tarts
Limoncello Tiramisu
One of my daughter Grace's favorite desserts is Tiramisu. I wanted to try something new. I made this Limoncello Tiramisu - actually that is a lie. My husband made it. I bought the ingredients and he threw it together. The hardest part about making Tiramisu is finding the @&%#$! ladyfingers! It's super lemony and delicious.
- Prep: 6 hrs
- Yields: 10 Servings
Bourbon Apple Cake
This Bourbon Apple Cake is a great alternative to apple pie. It has a crunchy, crispy texture because it contains grits and the apples are cut into large chunks. It’s baked in a springform pan which makes it easy to remove the cake from the pan in one piece.
- Prep: 15 mins
- Cook: 1 hrs 20 mins
- Yields: 8 Servings
