Yes, it is possible to make a great dessert without an oven and even if you're not great at baking. This mango icebox cake was assembled with store-bought ...
Recipes For Sweets & Desserts
Sweet snacks and sweet meal enders. Includes recipes for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, cookie bars, puddings and ice cream.
Alex’s Fruit Tart
It's the perfect summer dessert. Light, buttery crust. Thick but not overly sweet custard. Fruit slices. You can bake the crust and make the custard a day ...
Alex’s Dark Chocolate Eclairs
In response to my list of suggested desserts for The Ultimate Backyard Barbecue Party, a reader e-mailed me to ask if I could recommend desserts other than ...
Alex’s Oreo Cream Cheese Cookies
My daughters love giving food gifts. Sam is planning on making the cake for the first birthday of a friend's niece. When Ardy, one of Alex's friends from ...
Profiteroles (Cream Puffs)
What’s the difference between cream puffs, profiteroles and eclairs? I guess it depends on where you are. Cream puffs and profiteroles are the same—choux ...
Alex’s Blueberry Lemon Streusel Cake
The wonders that a little lemon zest can do to a cake. This blueberry lemon streusel cake follows an old recipe but Alex did some tweaking with the ...
Alex’s Churros Con Chocolate
Story has it that when the Portuguese sailed East, they paid attention to the delectable food they encountered in China and brought back with them to ...
Alex’s Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies With Cream Cheese Filling
Last December, I had this grand plan of creating multi-colored and multi-flavored variants of chocolate crinkle cookies. But there was always so much food ...
Yogurt and Strawberries, Parfait-style
Parfait, either French or American, has a technical meaning. French parfait is a frozen custard—similar to ice cream but not made like ice cream. American ...
No-bake Fruit and Cheese Dessert
Have you ever found yourself in a situation when you have to serve a good-looking dessert but you have neither the time nor the multitude of ingredients ...
Coconut Macaroons, the Filipino Way
I was under the impression that coconut macaroons were exclusively a Filipino thing. Then, I discovered that they are quite common in the American South. ...
Valentine’s Day Broken Glass Jello
If you're no expert (yet) at making picture-perfect desserts but you want to make something red and sweet that is almost impossible to mess up, try this ...
Swirled Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies
If you're searching for the perfect Valentine's Day dessert, this should be on your Top 5 list. A melt-in-the-mouth red velvet cushion covered by a carpet ...
Double Chocolate Ice Cream
It's been a while since I last made ice cream. In fact, I had to exert some effort to locate each and every part of the ice cream maker which had somehow ...
Cashew Nut Baklava
Ever since I saw Alton Brown make baklava in his now-defunct TV show, Good Eats, I've been promising myself I'd try and make my version. But phyllo pastry ...
Fresh Tropical Fruit Salad
Christmas in the Philippines is rarely without fruit salad. And by "fruit salad" I mean drained canned fruit cocktail and shredded fresh coconut tossed in ...