Food
Dessert Recipes Every Home Cook Needs to Know
Easy and quick dessert recipes with no mastery skills. Read out and try these basic dessert recipes and impress your guests and homies! ...
While it might be easier to order food online or buy a ready-made dessert, you'll make a much better impression on guests if you serve them something home-cooked. There are plenty of desserts that can be made relatively easily and quickly, and don't require any special skills from the baker. Master these classic desserts and you'll be a hit at any potluck or family gathering!
Cakes
Pound Cake
A pound cake recipe is very versatile. You can produce a decent cake by changing the flavor notes or adding fruit, chocolate, etc. It's also a satisfying way to end any meal when you serve a slice of warm homemade pound cake with whipped cream.
Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake is always a hit, no matter the occasion. But how do you make sure your chocolate cake comes out moist and fluffy? It all starts with measuring the ingredients correctly and getting the timing right. Once you've got that down, simply frosting and topping it with chocolate will create a magical dessert everyone will love.
Tres Leches
Tres Leches, meaning 'three-milk cake' in English, is a Latin dessert composed of a light and fluffy simple cake soaked in three types of milk - sweet condensed milk, evaporated milk, and regular half and half. The dish can be served as one unit or by the slice topped with whipped cream. As opposed to other recipes that are rigid in their ingredients list, Tres Leches is quite flexible..
Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies that are still warm and gooey in the center are hard to resist! The dough can be made ahead of time, shaped into cookies, and frozen. They're perfect for when guests show up unannounced. A good chocolate chip cookie is a great option when you're craving something sweet but don't have much time.
Sugar Cookies
This cookie recipe only requires flour, sugar, and butter. You can make it quickly and serve it as is or with chocolate, jam, whipped cream, or other toppings of your choice. The dough can be frozen and used at a later date. Plus, the cookies maintain their shape after baking so you can have fun cutting them into different shapes and sizes to please both adults and kids alike.
Custards
Creme Brulee
Crack the top of this custard-textured dessert open with a spoon to find a delicious surprise inside. This recipe is easy to make and only requires a little bit of patience. Best part is, they can be served immediately after baking as they require no additional topping like cakes do.
Flan
A trustworthy recipe that's a cinch to whip up. Once you know how to make a flan, other versions such as creme caramel or even creme brulee are similarly easy to prepare with just a few minor changes that elevate the recipes.
It is an uncomplicated dessert that's smooth and velvety making it the ideal dessert after rich meals.
Pies
Apple Pie
Having a go-to pie crust recipe gives any baker an edge. The possibilities are endless when it comes to pies. You can create something as classic as an apple pie or get creative with flavors and fillings. There's nothing quite like serving a warm, fresh pie right out of the oven - especially with some vanilla ice cream on top!
Fruit Pie
A crumbly warm crust with simple pastry cream is easy to make and serve. Not only is this dessert delicious, but it's also beautiful and can be easily customized to your liking. Simply arrange the fruit pieces in different patterns or add a mix of different types of fruit to make an artful and tasty display.
Banoffee Pie
With only a baked pie crust, some bananas, whipped cream, and chocolate chips required, this dessert is bound to become a family favorite. So few desserts are easy enough for beginner home cooks to make that it's worth learning how to make this one.
