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2,030 recipes
A layered pudding of vanilla pudding folded with cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk and whipped topping, built in a dish with whole and crushed vanilla wafers and sliced ripe bananas.
Main ingredient: banana
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-9389 · Hand-built original
Dense chocolate brownies with melted dark chocolate, cocoa and optional chopped chocolate or walnuts.
Main ingredient: chocolate
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-4743 · Hand-built original
Vanilla custards of egg yolk, sugar and heavy cream baked in a water bath, chilled, then topped with caramelised sugar.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-6896 · Hand-built original
Yellow cake and pudding mix cupcakes baked in a pan, set into dessert cups, covered with vanilla buttercream and pressed into rainbow nonpareils.
Main ingredient: cake mix
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-6897 · Hand-built original
A square of puff pastry on a sugared base, folded at the edges and covered with overlapping gala apple slices, baked crisp and served with vanilla ice cream.
Main ingredient: square sheet butter puff pastry
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites, coffee
HB-6900 · Hand-built original
A quick stovetop chocolate sauce from cocoa, milk and sugar, thickened with a spoonful of flour and ready in minutes.
Main ingredient: sugar
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-17202 · Hand-built original
You can make these easy homemade churros at home with just nine ingredients, perfectly coated in cinnamon sugar or dipped in melted chocolate ganache.
Main ingredient: butter
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0814 · Hand-built original
Baked sugar cookies frosted with a cream cheese and butter icing and topped with fresh berries, so each cookie becomes its own little fruit pizza.
Main ingredient: cheese
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-13644 · Hand-built original
Crumbled chocolate and white cake tossed with vanilla pudding and cookie crumbs, served in a brand-new litter box with softened Tootsie Rolls.
Main ingredient: box
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-2607 · Hand-built original
A graham cracker crust filled with a stovetop lemon curd-style filling and crowned with stiff, glossy meringue baked until golden.
Main ingredient: lemon
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-6914 · Hand-built original
Individual cheesecakes on a chocolate sandwich-cookie crumb base, baked in a muffin tin and spooned over with a fresh raspberry compote.
Main ingredient: raspberry
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-13658 · Hand-built original
Flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, oats and butter rubbed into clumps, chilled, then baked on a tray until dark golden for sprinkling over desserts.
Main ingredient: flour
HB-6917 · Hand-built original
Classic pralines of brown and white sugar boiled with evaporated milk to the soft-ball stage, stirred with butter, vanilla and toasted pecans, and dropped into candies.
Main ingredient: sugar
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-13669 · Hand-built original
A classic five-ingredient sponge is creamed, folded and baked in two small tins, then sandwiched with jam, lemon curd or cream.
Main ingredient: greasing
HB-6936 · Hand-built original
Whipped mascarpone and stiff egg whites are layered with coffee-and-liqueur-dipped lady fingers and chilled until set, then dusted with cocoa.
Main ingredient: separated
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-6939 · Hand-built original
Frozen summer fruit is set into an apple-juice jelly over Madeira cake slices, then covered with mascarpone custard and whipped cream.
Main ingredient: caster sugar
HB-6940 · Hand-built original
Chocolate cupcakes decorated as cheerful turkeys, with Oreo faces, candy eyeballs and fanned candy-corn tail feathers.
Main ingredient: turkey
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-17400 · Hand-built original
Thick, soft-centred cookies loaded with white chocolate chips and chopped macadamia nuts, chilled before baking so they stay chewy.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-13691 · Hand-built original
A no-bake Halloween assembly: chocolate kisses fixed with frosting onto fudge-striped cookies and piped with coloured buttercream bands and buckles.
Main ingredient: cookies
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-13692 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: butter
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0834 · Hand-built original
Crisp choux logs are split and filled with mascarpone-stabilised whipped cream, their lids dipped in a glossy dark chocolate glaze.
Main ingredient: cubes
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-6943 · Hand-built original
Delicate steamed cakes layered from sieved egg white and yolk, the white enriched with mayonnaise and cream cheese, the yolk sweetened lightly, with jam and mint on top.
Main ingredient: eggs
Pairs well with: strawberry jam, tea, fresh fruit, milk
HB-16041 · Hand-built original
A glossy Chinese-style sweet of yolks, sugar and tapioca starch stirred in oil until it pulls together into one smooth, kneadable mass.
Main ingredient: egg yolks
Pairs well with: tea, coffee, fruit, traditional Korean tea
HB-16043 · Hand-built original
A whipped eggnog and vanilla pudding dip spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, served with cookies.
Main ingredient: package instant vanilla pudding mix
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-4392 · Hand-built original
Smooth white-chocolate fudge made with eggnog and marshmallow cream, cut into squares and dusted with nutmeg.
Main ingredient: eggnog
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-17464 · Hand-built original
A no-bake eggnog cheesecake on a spiced graham cracker crust, topped with eggnog whipped cream.
Main ingredient: rectangles
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-4393 · Hand-built original
A vanilla cake baked with eggnog is poked, soaked with eggnog pudding and crowned with whipped topping dusted with nutmeg and cinnamon.
Main ingredient: vegetable oil
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-6950 · Hand-built original
A ready-made sweet pastry shell is filled with spiced rum custard, baked until just set and served with rum and nutmeg whipped cream.
Main ingredient: shell
HB-6951 · Hand-built original
Treat yourself to Eish Saraya, a comforting Egyptian dessert built from the simplest of pantry staples. Soft bread melts into warm, vanilla-scented milk, while chopped nuts and plump raisins add texture and a gentle sweetness in every spoonful. Often crowned with a dusting of cinnamon, this creamy pudding is a fixture at festive gatherings and a fitting finale to any Egyptian feast. Bring a little of that hospitality into your own kitchen.
Main ingredient: bread
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0847 · Hand-built original
A sheet cake made with crushed pineapple and its juice, frosted with a cream cheese and butter frosting folded with chopped pecans.
Main ingredient: apple
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-8990 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-0852 · Hand-built original
White chocolate and butter melt with molasses into a coffee-flecked blondie batter that is baked, then chilled for a dense, fudgy texture.
Main ingredient: white chocolate
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-6962 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-0389 · Hand-built original
Tahini and almond flour chocolate chip cookies with maple syrup and espresso, chilled before baking so they stay crisp at the edges and chewy in the middle, and finished with sea salt flakes.
Main ingredient: gin
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-11551 · Hand-built original
Meet Espumilla, one of Ecuador's most cheerful sweet treats. This airy, meringue-like dessert whips egg whites and sugar into a cloud-soft confection, then brightens it with the tropical tang of passion fruit or mango. Light, refreshing and endlessly pretty, it is the kind of pudding that turns up at family gatherings and street stalls alike. Bring a little Ecuadorian sunshine to your own kitchen with this simple, crowd-pleasing classic.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-0855 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: strawberries
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0858 · Hand-built original
Cooking apples are stewed with lemon and sugar, covered with a light sponge and baked until puffy and golden.
Main ingredient: total
HB-6963 · Hand-built original
A moist cocoa layer cake is beaten from butter, brown sugar, eggs and cocoa, baked in a round pan and dusted with powdered sugar.
Main ingredient: flour
HB-6965 · Hand-built original
The exotic Pavesini slab is a no-bake dessert with white chocolate cream, mango and pineapple. Fresh, creamy and perfect to make ahead.
Main ingredient: packs
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-0860 · Hand-built original
A no-bake layered loaf of milk-dipped Pavesini biscuits, white chocolate mascarpone cream and cubes of mango and pineapple, bordered with coconut-rolled biscuits.
Main ingredient: packs
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-13722 · Hand-built original
Faikakai topai is the basic version of this Tongan dessert composed of dumplings in a sweet coconut syrup. Faikakai Malimali is the banana version.
Main ingredient: sugar
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0868 · Hand-built original
Faikakai topai is the basic version of this Tongan dessert composed of dumplings in a sweet coconut syrup. Faikakai Malimali is the banana version.
Main ingredient: sugar
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0869 · Hand-built original
Faikakai Topai (Tongan Dumplings in Coconut Syrup) is a Tongan dessert built around flour. Ready in 55 min.
Main ingredient: flour
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0870 · Hand-built original
Make faikakala, a Tongan watermelon and coconut dessert, for a cool and refreshing island sweet.
Main ingredient: watermelon
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0871 · Hand-built original
A classic cooked fudge made with marshmallow creme, chocolate chips and walnuts, set and cut into squares.
Main ingredient: sugar
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-5147 · Hand-built original
Large bakery-style chocolate chip cookies made by creaming cold cubed butter with brown and white sugar, then folding chocolate chips through a corn starch-softened dough and baking the big balls until golden on top.
Main ingredient: chocolate
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-6977 · Hand-built original
Medjool dates filled with homemade maple hazelnut butter and a whole hazelnut, dipped in chocolate mixed with chopped hazelnuts and chilled until the shell is firm.
Main ingredient: sugar
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans, coffee
HB-9833 · Hand-built original
Ferskar ber is barely a recipe and entirely the point. During Iceland's short, bright summer, families head out to the heaths with buckets and come home with wild bilberries and crowberries, which are eaten the same day with nothing more than lightly whipped cream and a spoonful of sugar. It is the most Icelandic dessert there is, precisely because it asks so little.
Main ingredient: crowberries
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-0882 · Hand-built original
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