Dessert and sweet recipes

Sopapillas are triangular shaped fried pastry, glazed with honey and sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. They are a typical Mexican desert and are best when served hot. You can make the dough in advance, cut out the triangles and fry them a few minutes before serving.
 

Easy Texas style homemade raisin honey buns. If you don't like raisins, use any other kind of dried fruit, chocolate chips or nuts.
 

Walnut cake topped with a Mascarpone caramel cream. The caramel cream needs about 2 hours to chill so start making it first. The walnut cake can be ready in a total of 40 minutes, including baking time.
 

A lemon flavored version of the famous Italian dessert, Tiramisu. This Tiramisu uses lemon juice and limoncello liqueur (a lemon flavored liquer) together with eggs and Mascarpone. It is a great alternative to the classic coffee flavored Tiramisu, especially if you like lemon.
 

A strawberry Tiramisu recipe using a zabaglione and Mascarpone cheese mixture, fresh strawberries and a strawberry compote. This recipe makes a refreshing, simple and delicious summer dessert, great for any occation.
 

A classic Tiramisu recipe with eggs, Mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine and heavy cream. The eggs in this recipe are not cooked; instead they are beaten raw, together with the cream and Mascarpone. If you do not feel right with this you can cook the egg yolks and sugar in a double boiler, whisking continously, until pale yellow in color. Cool and use as mentioned in the recipe.

Refrigeration time is essential for Tiramisu, as it allows for all the flavors to come together. A minimum of 3 hours is needed, but for best results, refrigerate for 6 hours or even more.The best is to make the Tiramisu a day in advance.
 

A classic Italian dessert, Tiramisu is a multi-layered cake consisting of Italian biscuits dipped in Espresso coffee, toppped with a layer or more of  cream usually made of eggs, alcohol, cream and Mascarpone cheese. This recipe is one of the best Tiramisu recipes we have tried. It uses a zabaglione cream flavored with Cointreau and rum, a Mascarpone based cream and Amaretti biscuits that have been dipped in an Espresso, Kahlua and brandy mixture. For best results, refrigerate the Tiramisu for at least 3 hours (refrigerate overnight for even better taste). The Tiramisu can be refrigerated for up to a week, with its taste getting better and better with time.
 

Another non-alcoholic Tiramisu recipe, this one uses a berry compote (made from an assortment of berries such as strawberries, blueberries, rasberries etc) together with mascarpone cheese, cream and sugar. You can use whatever berries you can find, as long as they are fresh. The preparation is easy and you can easily adjust the quantities to make more. Besides not using alcohol, this Tiramisu does not use coffee either so this makes it a great desert for kids.
 

A great, easy and extremely fast to make Tiramisu, requires no cooking at all. All you need to do is beat some heavy cream and brew some Espresso coffee. The assembly of the Tiramisu takes only a few minutes. This Tiramisu recipe contains no alcohol. If you want to add more coffee flavor to the desert, you can top the ice cream with a splash of Kahlua or any other coffee liquer. Tiramisu affogato is one of the quickest, tastiest Tiramisu recipes yet.
 

Biscotti is the Italian word for biscuits (biscotto in singular form) and refers to any kind of cookies. Worldwide, the term biscotti refers to hard, almond flavored cookies. Biscotti cookies are made using a two step baking process. The biscotti dough is first shaped into a log, baked half way, cut into biscotti and baked until ready.