Category: Desserts

  • Easy Lemon Cake Recipe

    Easy Lemon Cake Recipe

    Lemon Cake, while lemon is not people’s first thought when it comes to flavouring cakes, do give this a try, you will be so glad you did.  All you need is love. But a little Lemon Cake now and then doesn’t hurt… – Omi Sido This Easy Lemon Cake is light, fine-textured and flavorful. One…

  • Chocolate Covered Strawberries

    Chocolate Covered Strawberries

    People think chocolate dipped strawberries are fancy food. Honestly, I’ve never understood why. This is one of the easiest desserts I make. I’ve been making these for many years. We’ve had them for Valentine’s Day as long as I can remember. Whenever I serve them, people act so impressed. Like this is supposed to be…

  • Benefits of Eating Fruits

    Benefits of Eating Fruits

    Fruits, goldmine of vitamins, minerals and fibre are ideal to consume at least 4-5 servings in a day. Since they are in the natural form, account for largest part of water and 100% bad cholesterol free, it’s much easier for the body to process and absorb the vitamins and minerals from the fresh fruit. Apple –…

  • Carrot Cake Recipe

    Carrot Cake Recipe

    The hardest part of any friendship is when it’s time to say goodbye. Didn’t know how to say goodbye to my leaving colleague and every day coffee mate Mr Wen so I set my sights on a carrot cake in his honour. So in a way I should call this recipe Mr Wen’s Carrot Cake ( Mr  文   萝卜糕).…

  • Valentines Banana Caramel Cream Dessert

    Valentines Banana Caramel Cream Dessert

    A few weeks ago I was laying in bed late at night, dreaming up the creation I have for you today.  Mind you, it’s nothing all that ground breaking… but it sure is delicious!  A layer of rich pastry cream, fresh bananas, whipped cream, caramel sauce, and a graham cracker crust.  Each element is pretty tasty on it’s own,…

  • Valentines Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse

    Valentines Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse

    Today’s recipe is pretty, pink, and delicious!  If you like cheesecake (even a little), you are likely going to love this!  This Valentines Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse is light and fluffy, sweet (but not overwhelming), and has a deliciously light cream cheese flavor. Contrary to other recipes I am adding fresh fruit puree to the mixture, (instead of…

  • Christmas Chocolate Roll with Fresh Cherries

    Christmas Chocolate Roll with Fresh Cherries

    “Silent night! Holy night! All is calm, all is bright round yon Virgin Mother and Child, Holy infant so tender and mild, sleep in Heavenly peace! sleep in Heavenly peace!”   This is a chocolate roll that you will get many raves about. Keep this recipe handy because I am afraid you will be asked…

  • Classic Creme Brulee

    Classic Creme Brulee

    Crème Brûlée is one of those classic French dessert recipes that chefs seem to insist on “enhancing”: adding bits of fruit, nuts or – worse still – oatmeal! I suppose their reasoning is that nobody could possibly be interested in such a simple dessert in these complex foodie days. Well, they are wrong. Crème Brûlée is…

  • Plum Cake-Autumn is Here

    Plum Cake-Autumn is Here

    Spring is lovely, everyone greets summer with open arms and winter has its own appeal but there’s something about autumn….a gradual return to comfort food, but still a bit of crunch and texture going on. When Italian plums are picked at their ripest stage, they have most aroma and flesh, and least juice of all…

  • Roasted Pineapple in Rum and Spices

    Roasted Pineapple in Rum and Spices

    I tried a fresh pineapple for the first time many years ago when not much food was on the shelves of Bulgarian food stores. My neighborhood vegetable store with his obnoxious manager was selling them together with all the other typical vegetables that were so dirty that you hardly could see their color. Those pineapples…