Dessert

Cakes, cookies, and elegant plated sweets. Also sorbets, ice creams, and fruit-forward dishes.

Golden-brown loaf of cake, partially sliced, revealing moist fruit pieces inside.
21 Sep 2010

Mamma Pia Cake

Try this cake. It's so wonderfully delicious!

Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 45 minutes
Three textured, light brown meringue cookies on a dark blue plate.
4 Sep 2010

Meringues

This is the first time ever that I successfully baked meringues. The trick is to bake them for a long time in low heat. I usually bake everything on 400 F. No wonder the meringues looked good from the outside but fell right into themselves when I took them out of the oven. This time around they were in the oven for 40 minutes on 300 F and were perfect!

Prep time: 2 minutes Cook time: 40 minutes
Bowl of dark berry sorbet with a spoon on a colorful tablecloth.
23 Aug 2010

Blackberry Sorbet

The blackberry bushes growing along the fence of my apartment complex are overflowing with ripe berries, so I froze half of the ones I picked, intending to keep them for use in smoothies and/or berry pies/crumbles in the fall. But when craving a cold dessert on a hot evening, I decided to try making a sorbet out of them. It was absolutely delicious!

Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 0 minutes
Dark chocolate cupcake with white cream layers, topped with three red raspberries.
20 Oct 2008

Chocolate Cream Cake

A great cake recipe with non-dairy cream that's better than its dairy siblings.

Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes