Easy Desserts
Truffles, brownies, fondants, flapjacks, cupcakes, breads, candy terrines, bundt desserts, cookies, caramels, crumbles, trifles, buns, biscuits, tarts, muffins, pies, crumpets… boy, do we have a variety of baking and dessert recipes! This deceptively good, weeknight-straightforward dessert has a topping of yogurt and whipped cream with raw sugar that looks like creme brulee, but requires no cooking. Giada’s tackle the age-old Italian Easter custom – a rice and ricotta pie – is a breeze to prepare, because of phyllo dough sheets that layer the pie dish and are rustically draped throughout the top.
Bitter cream adds extra tang and moisture to this recent cranberry and apple cake. For outside entertaining, scoop ice cream into plastic cups. Sour cream adds even richer flavor to Alton’s cheesecake, which is baked in a water bathtub for an evenly moist finish result.
A dredge in powdered sugar before baking ensures sweetness, and also offers them …