Categories by Pastries

Fruit Pizza

Fruit pizza is really a dessert that uses a pastry style crust covered with a cream cheese and jam layer, fresh fruit and a jelly glaze.

Savory Tomato Tart

The secret to a good tart is in the crust. This tomato tart uses three types of cheese; Guyere, feta and mozarella.

Easter Bunny Egg Cookies

For many people Easter Bunny Egg cookies like these, with a hard boiled egg, is an Easter tradition.

Homemade Cinnamon Buns

Everyone loves cinnamon buns and making your own homemade sweet dough makes them even better.

Homemade Sweet Dough

This rich sweet dough forms the basis for several sweetroll and coffeecake recipes. It is especially good with cinnamon rolls.

Rustic Tart Pastry

Mixing the cornmeal with this rustic dough and using butter instead of lard makes a near perfect pastry dough for tarts or galettes.

Pie Crust

The secret to this pie crust is the use of butter to make a fluffier and more flavorfull crust.

Pumpkin Pie from Scratch

You can make your own pumpkin pie using sugar pumpkins and the usual ingredients like cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg and ginger.

Rustic Apple Tart

This rustic tart is also called a galette, which is a French culinary term for a round pastry or cake, either sweet or savory.

Rustic Vegetable Tart

Many tarts or galettes look more like a pizza but this rustic version is more like a savory pie with an opening in the center.

Pumpkin Pudding

The base for a good pumpkin pudding is a good pumpkin bread recipe and then adding maple syrup and cream before baking again.

Luscious Lemon Squares

As the name of the recipe suggests, these are as tasty as you will find lemon squares anywhere.

Italian Donuts

These small, round donuts ae fried and coated with powdered sugar and best eaten right after making. They may remind you of "donut holes."

Pastiera Napoletana

Making this authentic version of the Italian pastry Pastiera Napoletana takes a while but is well worth the time.

Pistachio Apple Crepes

These sweet crepes use fresh Granny Smith apples and pistachios as part of the batter. Then you fill with sliced banana.

Red Berry Galettes

This red berry galette, French term for rustic tart, uses a combination of strawberries and raspberries for the filling.

The Classic Cannoli

Pastry Chef Fortunato Conte will show you how to make Cannolo Siciliano from scratch.

Torta di Frutta

It is very traditional in Italy to serve fresh fruit for dessert, and the Torta di Frutta is one way to serve that and a pastry as well.

Milkweed Syrup

Infusing a syrup (which starts with a mixture of sugar and water) is a very simple process. You can be making your own infused syrups with a variety o

Elderberry Whipped Cream

When making your own whipped cream you should buy what is called whipping cream or else buy heavy cream. 

Healthy Snacks - Granola

Granola is good for breakfast, lunch, or as a snack not to mention its easy to make. And, unlike with prepackaged food, you are in control of what you and your family are eating.

Easy Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

Make this recipe with refrigerated cinnamon rolls by adding brown sugar, honey and chopped pecans.

European Butter Cream

European butter cream icing is less sweet than American and is made with a Swiss Meringue as a base.

Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti

These chocolate and pistachio biscotti are a creative variation incorporating new ingredients and flavors like pistachio and chocolate.

Fig Coconut Bread

An original recipe of combining coconut, coconut milk and figs to make a delicious bread for diner, breakfast or a snack.

White Chocolate Scones

White chocolate and dried cherries make these typical Scottish scones very, very tasty.

Meringues

The meringueis often thought of as being difficult to make but this video teaches how easy it is.

Meringue Desserts

Meringues are not only delicious, they are extremely versatile. Last week, Annie Schennum, who trained and taught at the prestigious Cordon Bleu cooking school in London, showed us that meringues are

Gluten Free Crepe

Watch how to prepare gluten-free coconut crepes, a versatile food for unique flavor combinations. You can serve these as pancakes or you can use them as crepes for sandwiches.

Apple Tart

A perfect apple tart should have a firm bottom to its crust but be flaky and flavorful as well.

Apple Tart

A perfect apple tart should have a firm bottom to its crust but be flaky and flavorful as well.

Spicy Corn Fritters

Dane Tullock has created a variation on his Grandmother's fritter recipe using Thai chili peppers and chicory stout beer.

Nana's Bread Pudding

This bread pudding recipe from Nova Scotia is actually made with day old donuts. The filling is a custard, meaning that it is made with eggs, sugar, m

Summer Berry Shortcake

If you are like Executive Chef Tom Bivins of New England Culinary Institute you make different types of shortcake.

Berry Good Shortcake

The shortcakes are so easy to mix and bake yourself that you may even forget about the store bought version.

Pizza Gaina

This stuffed pizza recipe is a traditional Easter favorite for many Italian American families. Pizza Giana is also referred to as Pizza Piena, Pizza Rustica and Pizza Chiena.

Brownie Bites

Another no-cook, homemade tasting dessert using store bought ingredients - but you could make it from scratch too!

Fresh Fruit Tarts

These fruit tarts are made from all store-bought ingredients but taste like you made them from scratch.

Ricotta Fritters

These ricotta pies are a variation on ricotta lemon pancakes and go well with fruit sauces.

Pistachio Baklava

This typical Greek dessert uses pistachios with honey for a soft, syrupy crunch. The availability of frozen phyllo dough makes baklava easy to prepare for everyone.

White Peach and Walnut Tart

Wheat Germ Crust

Watermelon Muffins

For a sweet and tasty seasonal change of pace, enjoy this recipe for Watermelon Muffins.

Venetian Carnival Pastries

Zucchini Carrot Muffins

This zucchini and carrot muffins recipe gets a boost from spices such as allspice and nutmeg - a perfect companion for your morning coffee.

Fagottine Di Mele

These pastries are called apple bundles, a recipe from Naples, Italy that has an aroma of apples and cinnamon for a winter morning.

Quick Mini Fruit Tarts

Wonton Wrappers make instant tart shells for this Quick Mini Fruit Tarts recipe. These little tarts would look great on a dessert buffet.

Strawberry Almond Cream Napoleons

For a fresh and elegant dessert, enjoy this recipe for Strawberry Almond Cream Napoleons.

Strawberry Puffs

Serve this recipe for Strawberry Puffs for dessert at your next summer dinner party.

Rustic Apple Galette (Tart)

Also referred to as a tart, a galette is a French culinary term for a round pastry or cake, either sweet or savory. The Chef, Liz Walkowicz, adapted this tart from a Julia Child recipe.

Rustic Tart Pastry

This “rustic” dough for a tart (or galette) is a little sweeter and crunchier because it uses a small amount of corn meal with the flour and butter instead of lard.

Cinnamon Buns (Made with Sweet Dough)

This delicious recipe for fresh cinnamon buns uses a homemade dough recipe. These decadent buns can be served as a sweet addition to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner or in the morning for a delicious sweet breakfast, or even the day after.

Pumpkin Pie From Scratch

Making your own pumpkin pie filling is easier than you think, as you will find when you try this recipe for Pumpkin Pie from Scratch.

Mother Grant's Apple Pie

Sheree DeLorenzo learned how to make this pie from her mother, who learned how to make it from her mother, who learned from hers in Nova Scotia. This recipe for Mother Grant's Apple Pie is actually a mile high apple pie since the recipe calls for putting