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Desserts

From decadent cakes to tasty pies, find simple and advanced recipes for a variety of desserts. Delicious recipes abound for both year-round or holiday specific candy, as well as rich and creamy fudge. Learn to make the ultimate crust for a homemade apple pie or try your hand at mastering a velvety smooth cheesecake recipe. Dozens of cookie recipes, from classics like chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin to more intricate recipes such as Outrageous Cookie Bars, are available at eHow.

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  • How to Make Chocolate-Dipped Fruit

    Chocolate-dipped fruit can be made using chocolate ganache or tempered chocolate. Determine what type of chocolate to dip your fruit in with advice from a certified executive chef in this free...

  • How to Make Cream Cheese Fruit Salad

    If your needing an idea to bring a dish to a spread and want everyone to compliment you on a good job, you should pick this one. This recipe is really easy. If you have trouble getting recipes...

  • How to Make Royal Sweet Vermicelli

    Royal sweet vermicelli is a famous Asian dish that is most popular dessert. It is very easy to make but it's preparation time is about 6 hours. It is served either hot or chilled. In Arabic, it...

  • How to Make a Parfait

    Making a homemade parfait is easy and it’s much healthier for you than buying ones out in the street like at a fast food restaurant or grocery store. Enjoy a parfait for breakfast or have one as a...

  • How to Make Yogurt Ambrosia

    This fruit salad is so yummy, you’ll forget it’s actually something good for you. Adults love it, and even kids love it! This tasty treat is best if made at least 1 hour in advance. This will...

  • How to Make Flowers With Fruit

    Fruit is not only delicious and nutritious it is also great for making flowers. With some simple cutting and creativity you can create a beautiful flower or whole arrangement made entirely out of...

  • How to Prepare a Fruit Bowl

    A fruit bowl is one the simplest types of dessert to make. This watermelon fruit bowl recipe involves mixing different types of fruit with simple syrup and serving it in a watermelon shell. The...

  • How to Use Fresh Stevia

    Stevia, S. rebaudiana, also known as sweet honey leaf, sweetleaf and sugarleaf, is native to South America. People in Paraguay use stevia to sweeten their traditional tea called mate. Washington...

  • How to Make A Fruit Pizza (Unique Holiday Dessert Recipe)

    This fruit pizza recipe is more like a sweet dessert than a pizza. Children love to make it and eat it, and it is a unique addition to holiday desserts!

  • How to Cook Fresh Fruit for Cake Fillings

    A cake with a fruit filling is not only beautiful but sweetly satisfying as well. Pairing the light sweetness of cake with the fruity goodness of any kind of fruit filling adds a special touch to...

  • How to Make Fruit Terrine

    Looking for a fruity dessert without insane amounts of added sugar? This fruit terrine is a gelatin recipe with peach, nectarine, apricot and white grape juice. It is unique, healthy and presents...

  • How to Make Edible Flowers Out of Candy or Fruit Roll-Ups

    Candy flowers are cheerful decorations for cakes, cookies, squares and decorative wreaths or centerpieces. Flowers can be placed directly onto a dessert or adhered with frosting to a wreath or...

  • How to Make Fruit Muffins

    This is another one of those recipes where I found a recipe I liked, but just knew if I made some changes here and there it would come out so much better. If the fruit you chose to use is not...

  • How to Thicken Up Runny Pie Filling

    Your pie may look great until you cut into it and all the delicious filling runs out like juice. Now you have pie soup. This is pretty common with fruit pies. There are a couple of things that...

  • How to Make a Cinnamon Apple Spice Cake

    I absolutely love the holidays and the foods the holidays bring with them. I love to bake, especially during Thanksgiving and Christmas. I enjoy sharing what I've made with others, when it turns...

  • How to Make a Fresh Fruit Arrangement

    Fresh fruit, with its bright, beautiful colors and varied textures and shapes, can make a gorgeous addition to any buffet or table. Having an edible fresh fruit arrangement or centerpiece is a...

  • How to Stew Fruit

    Stewed fruit, sometimes called fruit compote, has been a popular dessert served for hundreds of years. It is sometimes associated with the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, but many other different...

  • How to Make A Light Fruit Cake

    This recipe makes about six pounds of cake. You can use any size pans you wish but make sure you adjust the baking time accordingly. As with any fruit cake, you can vary the fruit as you wish...

  • How to Select, Eat and Prepare Pawpaw Fruit from a Paw Paw Tree

    Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a long pod fruit with an edible pulp around the seeds. The flavor is incredible something like banana, kiwi and strawberry with a hint of vanilla. The pulp is custard...

  • How to make Birthday Cupcakes

    How to make delicious birthday cupcakes.

  • How to Make Quick and Easy Fruit Pizza

    Okay, so this is my all time favorite dessert! It's so yummy and so, so, so easy to make. Anyone can do it. Great for parties, Holidays, friends, and even for little kids to help make! Only takes...

  • How to Use Agave in Jam

    Serve your friends and family a sugar-free jam that is full of sweet flavor. Sweet nectar from the agave plant is used with tomatoes and other high-acid fruits to create delicious, well-balanced...

  • How to Make Easy Filipino Fruit Salad

    Filipino fruit salad has often been compared to ambrosia. It's an easy dish to make for any occasion and is best served cold. This version is taken from "The Philippine Cookbook" by...

  • How to Bake Frozen Fruit Pie

    It's quite convenient to simply reach into your freezer and pull out a whole, delicious fruit pie for unexpected company, a sick neighbor, a church bake sale or even for a little self-indulgence....

  • What to Serve With a Friendship Cake

    Friendship cake is a fruit cake (the fruit varies by preference). It is a recipe designed to make enough starter so that you can keep some to make your own cake and also give some of the starter...

  • How to Bake Frozen Fruit Pies

    At harvest time, bakers prepare and freeze pies to preserve the bounty of the most flavorful fruit of the season, but when the time to serve the pie comes, how can a frozen pie be baked to taste...

  • How to Make a Good Cheesecake with Fruit Topping

    During the holidays, it’s nice to know how to prepare a quick, easy and delicious dessert that will be a hit at any gathering. Here is a Cheesecake recipe that is quick, easy and delicious.

  • How to Select, Eat and Prepare Quince Fruit

    It used to be every farm had a quince tree. And ever farm wife coveted these fruit when it came time to make jelly. Quinces are naturally high in pectin and can be used to make jellies or jams. ...

  • How to make a fruit-filled Baked Alaska

    A Baked Alaska is the embodiment of Showy, Staggering, Breathtaking ! You will receive gasps of admiration from friends and family and when they taste it, they will be mute with ecstacy !!!Sounds...

  • Easy German Desserts

    From puddings and fruit compotes to cakes and Christmas cookies, Germans are well known for their rich and tasty desserts. Many of these recipes are simple to prepare, using fresh ingredients such...

  • Difference Between Pie & Cobbler

    A cobbler is a pie with one pastry crust and fresh fruit that is baked in a deep dish. It is one of many variations of the basic pie, one of America's most beloved desserts.

  • How to Make a Pie Using Frozen Fruit

    Fruit pies are a delightful finish to any meal. However, seasonal fruits often determine what pies are made at given time of year. Using frozen fruits to make pies can be the perfect alternative...

  • Good Desserts for Kids

    When it comes to good desserts for kids, the possibilities are endless. Whether its cookies, fruit creations, cake, ice cream, brownies, pie or anything in between, these yummy dessert recipes are...

  • How to Make Edible Fruit Bouquet

    Edible fruit bouquets can add class and fun to any occasion, whether it is a wedding or baby shower, birthday party, or just an intimate gathering of friends. It is a great centerpiece that tastes...

  • How to Make Cool Whip & Fruit Dip

    This is a favorite in our house. We use it for our Apples and Strawberries and other Fruit. SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT CALORIES. Try this on friends and family. We have used this on many holidays.

  • How to Make Natural Vegan Jello Using Agar Agar

    Agar Agar is a seaweed derived gelatin-like agent and it makes a great vegan alternative to Jello, without the animal gelatin and artificial ingredients. You'll be surprised at how simple it is to...

  • How to Create a Great Fruity Dessert

    When you try to get a member of your family that does not tend to eat healthy eat healthier, try this for starters. This is a way for them to get vitamins through the fruit. Fiber through the...

  • How to Make The Best Fruit Cake Ever

    This is a recipe for a fruit cake. Now most people do not like this particular cake. It is always dry and hard. Well, my Mother made up this recipe and it is delicious, moist and very tasty. ...

  • How to Make Veryberry Cupcakes

    This article tells you how to make amazing mixed berry cupcakes great for summer fun or just a after school snack =)

  • How to Use Frozen Fruit Pies to Make a Cobbler

    Many people prefer homemade dishes over frozen or packaged food, especially when they are expecting company. Unfortunately, baking a dessert from scratch can be time consuming. If you want to make...

  • How to Make Fruit Cocktail Bread Pudding

    My sister made this fruit cocktail bread pudding for years. Finally she showed me how to make it and gave me her recipe. It is so delicious and I am happy to share it with you. Enjoy you will love it!

  • How to Make Cobbler

    The earliest meaning of the word "cobbler" refers to one who makes (or "cobbles") shoes. Sometime later, "to cobble" came to mean "to put together clumsily or roughly" (American Heritage...

  • How to Make a Fresh Fruit Bouquet

    A fresh fruit bouquet is a grouping of pieces of fruit that have been cut up and presented to resemble a bouquet of flowers. Fresh fruit bouquets are creative and pretty. This beautiful healthy...

  • How to Make a Fondue Fruit Tree

    Both fruit and fondue make for delicious appetizers or snacks at a gathering, but a beautiful fondue fruit tree will elevate these foods to a conversation piece. You can make one using the colors...

  • Chocolate Cake Decoration Ideas

    Chocolate cakes lend themselves to a wide variety of decorating options. Because chocolate has such a strong flavor, many decorations also enhance the cake's natural richness. When deciding on...

  • How to Make Peach Sorbet

    This is the time of year you really begin to see the best of the fresh peaches at the farmer’s market and in the produce department of your grocery store. They are such a wonderful, sweet,...

  • How to make Easy Apple Strudel

    This Apple Strudel is not only pleasing to the eye, it's delicious and makes a great gift anytime, especially around the Holidays. Using canned fruit pie filling such as canned Apple, Cherry, or...

  • How to make New York Cheesecake (fruit optional)

    Make an amazing New York style cheesecake.

  • How to Make a Diabetic Friendly Fruit Salad

    Finding a recipe for diabetic friendly fruit salad can be a challenge. This recipe is a great choice for a diabetic dessert. You can add it to your collection of diabetic recipes. It is...

  • How to Make Easy Fruit, (Peach, Apple, Cherry, Blackberry) Cobbler

    This recipe will allow you to make a delicious fruit (peach, apple, cherry, blackberry or any fruit you like) cobbler that is extremely easy even for a novice.

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